>Original Guardian article at:
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4136440,00.html
George Monbiot was incorrect in this article to say
>The pipeline does not pass through the former Yugoslavia,
because it passes through the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Certainly the US and Western European imperialisms were looking at smoothing out the geopolitical map in the interests of their finance capitalists. That is the reason why they did not want communalism, wars, massacres, and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of refugees, and a generation of embittered victims willing to blow up oil installations.
Whether their strategy in Kosovo will pay off in stabilising Macedonia is still not clear.
Chris Burford
London