"National Psychosis?" Look Out!

CounterPunch sitka at teleport.com
Mon May 10 09:53:36 PDT 1999


Sam Smith has excavated this horrific scenario from Blaine Hardin's article in the NYT, a reporter known in the Pacific Northwest for having written a truly distorted book on the social history of the Columbia River, including a couple of limp chapters on the history of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

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"Given the character of Milosevic's regime and knowing that there is almost certainly more horror to come, a bold, if impractical, question is just now beginning to be formulated. Is it finally time for outside powers to make the effort necessary to cure a national psychosis inside Serbia that has been destabilizing a corner of Europe for a decade?

"Put another way, has the time come for NATO to do in Serbia what the Allies did in Germany and Japan after World II?

"To follow that model, Serbia's military would have to be destroyed, and Milosevic crushed, by an invasion that almost certainly would cost the lives of hundreds of U.S. soldiers. After unconditional surrender, the political, social and economic fabric of Serbia would be remade under outside supervision so that the Serbs could take their place in a prosperous and democratic world."

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