Nathan wrote:
"...in the fact that NATO during the Kosovo war estimated that roughly 10,000 people had been killed, and lo-and-behold, that's about the number that has come out after the war's end." ___________________ This conversation is getting no where. Nobody is denying the expulsions and killings, though what is being debated (according to the Nation review of Chomsky's book for example) is not only the magnitude but how much responsibility the US/NATO has to take as a result of deciding to bomb instead of relax some of the more absurd demands it had put in the appendices of the Rambouillet agreement. Quite possible that even if that crucial appendix (B?) had been removed, Serb aggression would have continued unabated even if an occupying force over the entire country was no longer demanded. But we'll never know.
And then you note: "Serb deaths due to NATO intervention were completely negligible."
Was there not immense damage done to the Serb infrastructure? Won't this have terrifying effects on the health and life of people? Talk about apologetics--you can't even recognize the dangers here.
Yours, Rakesh