NATO Bomb Kills Two Peacekeepers

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jun 22 10:05:18 PDT 1999


kirsten neilsen wrote:


>before you are tempted to accuse me of supporting
>milo, just stop.

One of the things I've found most depressing about this evil war has been all the side-taking. Either you're pro-NATO or pro-Milo. You've got leftists condemning the KLA as a bunch of gangsters, or treating them as a liberation movement worthy of support; condemning Serbia as fascist and genocidal or canonizing it as a hardy outpost of socialism. In other words, there's hardly been a position that doesn't end up endorsing some variety of simplified nationalism in an unimaginably complicated part of the world. I don't see why it isn't possible to condemn the barbarism all around, except that people seem to find it simpler to cling to some good guy/bad guy model, even though they differ on their casting preferences.

Doug



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