Another thing I've noticed is the "Albanian" refugees riding their farm equipment in flight from the fighting. Long lines of tractors etc. Have any of you city boys priced farm equipment lately? Those poor oppressed "Albanians" are fleeing in style! Name a luxury car you would like to own.
Your email pal,
Tom L.
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Nathan Newman wrote:
>
> >Not so simple, Doug. From the same article: New York Times, Nov 1, 1987
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >"The violence is the worst in the past seven years, according to a
> >journalist in Kosovo.
> >
> > Many Yugoslavs blame the troubles on the ethnic Albanians, but the
> >matter is more complex in a country with as many nationalities and
> >religions as Yugoslavia's and involves economic development, law,
> >politics, families and cultural identity. As recently as 20 years
> >ago, the Slavic majority treated ethnic Albanians as inferiors to be
> >employed as laborors. The ethnic Albanians, who now number 2
> >million, officially were deemed a minority, not a constituent
> >nationality, as they are today."
>
> I never said it was simple, Nathan; it's the bombing party that's
> simplifying things. What's remarkable, though consistent, is the cycle of
> sanctification and demonization. Caecaescu (sp?) was our friend (there was
> a famous photo of him shaking hands with Katharine Graham in the 1970s,
> wasn't there?), then he became evil incarnate. Saddam was our friend - the
> CIA even gave him a list of Communists to kill - and then he became evil
> incarnate. Croats can go from perps to victims; ditto Albanians. And the
> U.S. opinion-making machinery is always an integral part of the angel-devil
> cycle. Now we're all supposed to unite around the naming and bombing of a
> devil - and liberals like Paul Wellstone and Nathan Newman fall right in
> line. How I wish it were possible to see how folks would line up were it
> Bob Dole rather than Bill Clinton giving the orders.
>
> Doug