Rugova Calls for Continuation of NATO airstrikes

[Jim heartfield]

In message <000a01bea12e$599ecee0$a4f38482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman
<nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim heartfield <jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>-If the KLA or Rugova were calling for independence, they might deserve
>-our support, but in substance they are calling for the subordination of
>-their region to a Western protectorate.
>
>
>Ah, if a people choose the form of independence that we approve of, then
>that is the right of "self-determination", but if they choose a form that we
>don't like, the it is illegitimate.

Forgive me, but I am having some difficulty with the concept that
military occupation by Nato constitutes a 'form of independence'.

But maybe I am being naive, after all look at the extensive independence
that the Bosnians enjoy under the rule of the UN High Representative...

-- 
Jim heartfield