empty gravesite

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Oct 16 16:04:02 PDT 1999


"What might have beens" cannot be demonstrated, but it is a reasonable assumption that without western interference Yugoslavia might have stayed unified. (Much so-called "tribal war" in Africa was also generated by imperialism.) Certainly Jared has accumulated more than enough material to establish as a reasonable hypothesis that Serbian actions in Kosovo were (at worst) no worse than the U.S. south in the pre-civil rights era. In any case, if someone wants to justify individualist hand-wringing thorugh appeal to complexity and ambiguity ought to have more than the wording of one press account to support him/herself. And "tribalism" is an expression only found in racist literature.

Carrol

David Horne wrote:


> At 10:07 AM 10/16/1999 +0200, you wrote:
> >>In the Balkans there are no good guys and no bad guys, just tribal hatreds,
> >>a lot of sad people, and the sound heard in the background of Tito spinning
> >>in his grave.
> >>
> >>David H
> >
> >Yeah it's human nature, innit?
> >
> >Russell
>
> Human nature? "You gotta be taught" buddy.*
>
> *With apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein
>
> David H
> >
> >
> >



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