Rebuttal to Nathan

[Brad De Long]

>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

Well, after Srebnitsa and company I have more sympathy for people who 
think that living cheek-by-jowl with Serbs is unhealthy given the 
present complexion of the Serb government.

Of course, after WWII I have *lots* of sympathy for people who think 
that living cheek-by-jowl with Croats is unhealthy given the fascist 
tendencies of Croat governments.

And at times I think if we just moved 'em all to Dayton they would 
realize how much they really had in common...

Brad DeLong