Rebuttal to Nathan

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Mar 21 08:16:20 PST 2000


Seth Ackerman wrote:


>So what does democracy mean here? What is the proper unit of democratic
>deliberation? Kosovo or Serbia? Bosnia or the Serb Republic? Croatia or
>Krajina? Yugoslavia or Bosnia? I'm not sure there are any certain answers.

Follow out the logic of the interventionists and the fundamental democratic unit is the ethnic group, which, given the mixing of groups in the Balkans, requires lots of displacement. When Serbs do it, it's genocide; when others do it, it's in the pursuit of self-determination.

Seems like a multiculturalism based on purified units living in isolation rather than people of all sorts mixing it up with each other.

Doug



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