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James L Westrich II westrich at miser.umass.edu
Wed Jun 2 06:34:38 PDT 1999



>>>At 18:14 31/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>>>At 10:11 PM 5/31/99 +0100, you wrote:
>>>>>Paddy Ashdown, leader of the Liberal Democrat Party in Britain has been
>>>>>successful in persuading Tony Blair to intervene in Kosovo, and then to
>>>>>promote the idea of ground troops.
>>>>>
>>>>>On Saturday he argued that Bosnia and Kosovo were mere preludes to the
>>>>>tasks of NATO with the forthcoming implosion of the former Soviet Union.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>So British Liberal Democrats dream of Drang Nach Osten, huh? - that
>>>>"steppen" of Ukraine must be a promising Lebensraum for the starved for
>>>>space Brits.


>>>No I really think this is an important misunderstanding. The Drang nach
>>>Osten was for land. The Serb war against Kosovar self-determination is for
>>>land.


>>>BUT the NATO war against Serbia is *not* for land.


>>>NATO leaders and representatives have dissembled over a lot of things but
>>>they are telling the truth about this. Theirs is a war for "free trade",
>>>for the free movement of finance capital across all territorial boundaries.
>>>Their battle flag is atomised bourgeois human rights, forgetting the social
>>>rights of a society to survive whatever the IMF may have to say.


>>>The movement to the east is by peaceful assimilation. Look at the election
>>>result that has just occurred in Slovakia, paving the way for economic
>>>"reforms" that would enable Slovakia in due course to be a candidate for
>>>the European Union and for NATO. It is only that the Serbs have resisted
>>>this process and tried to reorganise the national boundaries on ethnically
>>>coherent lines, which would logically lead to apartheid.


>>>But international finance capital has abandoned apartheid in South Africa
>>>for sound economic reasons, and it has no interest in promoting it in the
>>>Balkans.


>>>The NATO war is *not* a war for land.


>>>Chris Burford


>>>London



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