KLA takes charge

[Seth Ackerman]

> The two might be equivalent if there was evidence of the KLA at its top
> echelons organizing a systematic murder of Serbian civilians, as opposed
> to
> the current evidence of scattered murders without particular direction.
> 
> Again, though, we have the moral equivalence between state-sponsored
> systematic murder of Kosovars and their acts of resistance.  But if after
> all the reports of the systematic and planned atrocities committed by the
> Serb forces in Kosovo, you still see the Serb actions as morally
> equivalent,
> no amount of argument is going to bridge the gap on this issue.
> 
> 

	The Serbs believe their "systematic and planned" atrocities were in
retaliation for the "systematic and planned" NATO bombing, which killed
1500-2000 civilians, plus hundreds of soldiers, destroyed the economy and
the environment of Yugoslavia. You might say this was an "act of
resistance"; but the Serbs believe it was an act of state terrorism. Rather
than condemning both equally, you have chosen to insert yourself into this
ancient and bloody conflict and choose one side over the other. That's
rather perverse, in my opinion.


> Hell, by your logic, Native Americans deserved what they got (or at least
> whites are morally equivalent) since there were plenty of scattered
> massacres of whites in response to European encroachment.
> 

	No, the Native Americans were invaded by foreigners who tried to
wipe them out. You can't generalize about these conflicts: some are truly
one-sided pogroms; others are tit-for-tat grudge matches that go on for
1,000 years. The Kosovo conflict is of the latter category.