Nothing like a blast of cold water on a Saturday morning.
>> Your position is as open to charges of manichean posturing as is Mark
Jones' (racist) nonsense. The bombing has dealt the Albanian Kosovars an
historic defeat, it kills innocents by the truck-load, is destroying an
environment for years to come, is destroying the infrastructure the
survivors need if they're to survive the winter, and has advanced the
doomsday clock by some minutes. Which one of those claims is either wrong
or unimportant? >>
None, though I would quibble with the word 'dealt' since it assigns too much agency to NATO and none to MILO.
>> Enforcing external control over a national economy and armed occupation
of
that nation at the point of a gun is wrong. Gotta problem with that? >>
No, though I would not describe a Nato liberation of Kosova (the Kosovars should be so lucky) as an 'occupation.'
>> See, I reckon all of the above is true and important. >>
Me too, which should tip you off that I see your criticism is not untrue so much as mis-targeted.
<< Now, that NATO seems suddenly to realise it's all but beatified Milo Lazar The Bloody is a big problem. But it's a problem of *their* making.
***************************************** * Continuing the bombing won't fix that * * problem any more than stopping it * * will. . . . * ***************************************** >>
Truer words were never spoken. If I could I would take this statement and engrave it onto the foreheads of every list-member here and on PEN-L. Some sort of removeable tatoo, like my daughter plays with.
The rest of your post is well-taken, but I don't have any new responses to it. Just the same old ones, which I still support.
>> Fuck NATO, Max. >>
I'd love to; just tell me how.
cheers, mbs