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James L Westrich II westrich at miser.umass.edu
Wed Jun 2 06:59:36 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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