Please help me. I'm getting sucked backed in.
Nathan, you haven't really met my point, which was that if Serb brutality was in the "Medium to High" range before the bombing, how would you rate NATO's brutality? Let me quote from today's Washington Post, which published part of the text of an internal NATO document from April concerning the planned bombing of the Socialist Party Headquarters in Belgrade:
WP:
Next to a photograph of the party headquarters, the document said: "Collateral damage: Tier 3 -- High. Casualty Estimate: 50-100 Government/Party employees. Unintended Civ Casualty Est: 250 -- Apts in expected blast radius." [end-quote]
So NATO killed 2000 civilians. NATO's bombs certainly drove out thousands of Albanians, as Paul Watson of the LA Times and others reported. What distinguishes Serb brutality from NATO brutality?
Seth
Nathan Newman wrote:
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> First, deaths are not the only measure of brutality, especially the
> Balkans.
> Deaths aimed at driving people completely out of the country as refugees
> is
> also a major form of military brutality. Along with the estimated 2000
> killed, there are estimates of as many as 100,000 Kosovars leaving the
> country in the years just before because of that brutality. And the
> estimated tens of thousands of military brutality and militia murders that
> followed NATO intervention are hard to measure as anything other than
> "Medium to High."
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> --Nathan Newman
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