Palestinians and Kosovars (Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706

ravi narayan gadfly at home.com
Fri Aug 10 07:06:40 PDT 2001


Luke Weiger wrote:


>
> (And another: Really? I don't recall Clinton, Albright, Jennings et al.
> equating Milosevic with Hitler.)
>

first hit on google search on "clinton milosevic hitler":

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http://www.reason.com/9906/ed.ng.fuhrer.html

To justify the NATO "action" in the Balkans, the Clinton administration has moved quickly to cast Slobodan Milosevic in the Hitler mold. In his first extended attempt to explain what "this Kosovo thing is all about," Bill Clinton rhetorically asked a crowd of AFSCME union members, "What if someone had listened to Winston Churchill and stood up to Adolf Hitler earlier? How many people's lives might have been saved, and how many American lives might have been saved?"

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has, as NBC's Andrea Mitchell put it,"demonized [Milosevic] as a modern-day Hitler." Other NATO supporters have similarly penciled in a mustache on Milosevic. Reagan administration U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, for instance, has said that Serbian actions in Kosovo constitute "the closest thing to genocide that we have seen since Pol Pot's killing fields in Cambodia or Hitler's gas ovens in Auschwitz."

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however there is also this:

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http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/05/13/clinton.kosovo/

"Though his ethnic cleansing is not the same as the ethnic extermination of the Holocaust, the two are related; both vicious, premeditated, systematic oppression fueled by religious and ethnic hatred," Clinton told a group of 200 Veterans of Foreign Wars members at the National Defense University at Fort McNair.

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sorry if these have already been brought up in this discussion

(i must admit i have not been reading each post thoroughly).

--ravi



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