Why Don't You Enlist, Nathan? (was Re: 500,000 Kosovans nowrefugees)

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sun Mar 28 20:38:49 PST 1999


Nathan wrote:
>The fact that
>you want to compare Milosevic to Ho Chi Mihn says a hell of a lot about your
>politics.

I don't compare Milosevic to Ho Chi Mihn for the simple reason that he is not Ho Chi Mihn. I don't protest US military actions and imperial economic sanctions only when their targets are genuine revolutionary socialist movements. Also, you need to stop using Milosevic as a synecdoche for all the Serbs.


>And you forget, Kosovo is (or was) 90% Albanian. Like a lot of the
>propaganda you've posted, the whole debate ignores that fact as this is not
>Serbian territory. It is the Serbs who are in hostile territory. No one
>sane would advocate trying to occupy Serbia; any US troops would be in
>Kosovo in alliance with Kosovans against the invading Serbian forces.

As many have already posted on this issue, Kosovo is part of Yugoslavia, and what is to be objected is how U.S. imperialism has fragmented Yugoslavia, using right-wing nationalists in Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia.

If your position is that the rights of a minority group are to be protected, why not protect 10 % of non-Albanian people in Kosovo and Albanians in Kosovo who do not want to secede from Yugoslavia from the KLA and those with Greater Albanian ambitions?

Yoshie



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