Hitchens on Kosovo

[Seth Ackerman]

Nathan Newman wrote:

> Key sentence is at the end:
> 
	[snip]

	"In fact, the Kosovo war marked the first and only time
> in the twentieth century that ethno-fascism was stopped, and reversed,
> while it was still in progress." 
> 
	How would you describe what's taking place in Kosovo today? Does it
qualify as "ethno-fascism"? 250,000 Serbs have been driven out. About 1,000
have been murdered. The Albanian newspapers promise terrible revenge on the
few remaining Serbian grandmothers in the province, who, as Kosova Press
recently put it, "stink of Slav".

	Hitchens also wrote:

	And the damned ones are those who fled Kosovo in abject terror and
defeat, rather than face the consequences of what their death squads had
done here. 

	Again, for Nathan and for Hitchens, the frail 85-year-old Serbian
ladies who are constantly threatened with death by the KLA are responsible
for Milosevic's crimes by virtue of their shared Serb blood. This is called
"collective guilt," no? Isn't that related to "ethno-fascism"? 

	Nathan, why would a nice American liberal who claims to oppose
ethnic hatred in all its forms subscribe to some of the vilest notions of
the Nazis?

	Seth