I don't have any financial self interest in the Serbian situation, nor, do any Americans of Serbian extraction that I know of have anything to gain financially by any outcomes in Serbia.
In Ohio the two biggest politicians of Yugoslavian background are George Voinovich and Dennis Kasich. Both are rather conservative Republicans of the smoother northern variety. Kasich is a second or third generation Croatian. Voinovich claims second generation Slovenian, although, the -ovich is usually a Serbian moniker. Where as -ich is generally a Croatian moniker. Voinovich and Kasich are both Roman Catholics---Kasich maybe on the outs with the Pope over a divorce. You should contrast this with the predominantly Orthodox Serbs.
I doubt if Voinovich or Kasich will loose any sleep over bombing the Orthodox Serbians, unless we bomb an Orthodox church that recognizes the Pope.
Your email pal,
Tom L.
Jim heartfield wrote:
> In message <36C0EF65.5A9199C2 at lor.net>, Tom Lehman <TLEHMAN at lor.net>
> writes
> >It's interesting that Christopher Hitchens beat the Nation's drum for
> >sending American troops into Bosnia. I'm still convinced that he and
> >Mr.Blumenthal will have enough money after their little spat to open a
> >nation wide chain of Tuxedo stores---Chris and Sid's Formal Wear.
>
> That's my point of departure from the Hitchens camp - not the other
> thing.
>
> In 1993 I was at a conference in New York on some anti-war campaign. In
> the middle of it all the announcement that Clinton had bombed the Serbs
> roused a cheer! (Granted it was a fairly token bombing) Self-avowed
> 'social-imperialist' Christopher Hitchens rallied the cause of
> progressive militarism, arguing for US intervention in Haiti and Bosnia.
>
> I don't think you have to be a genius to work out that, however bad a
> regime, the US - or UK - military is not an honest broker. What the
> Serbs are doing in Kosovo is vicious and destructive, but the it is
> noticeable that no government authority supports independence. Maybe
> they did learn something from the Bosnia debacle.
> --
> Jim heartfield