Speaking for myself, I ignore it because I've seen it on both lists before, I've responded in the past, and I don't have anything much new to say. Our pro-Serb extremists have a manichean East/West, socialist/capitalist frame in their heads which they use for everything and glorify by the name "political economy." Once the white hats and black hats are identified, no act by the good guys is too horrible and no act by the bad guys is above contempt. Moral concerns are held to be intrinsically illegitimate; "idealism." Then there are the neo-pacifists, with an unrelenting focus on violence perpetrated by US Imperialism, who disclaim any affinity with Milosevic, notwithstanding the practical import of their "no bombing/no genocide" posture. There doesn't seem much more to talk about.
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> And, given mark jones' comments such as "Today the Yugoslav
army seems to be clearing the decks by expelling the last Kosovan
Albanians (good riddance to bad rubbish in my opinion).", it
would seem that some challenge is required. >
This isn't new coming from Mark either. I recall approving comments from him on this list a while back on internecine assassinations within the left in one of the South American countries. Forget which one.
> I guess I'm also asking whether or not i should regard the
silence and the
silencing as consent. >
Not at all. Like a certain other dude's ruminations on ethnicity and religion, one gets jaded by this stuff and comes to ignore it.
cheers,
mbs