Yeah right. Those poor Nazis were the victims of the Soviet horde too, weren't they? Oh the horror of all those Soviet atrocities! And hey, the US was making war on them too, I nearly expunged that from my recollection. How unfair of me to think only Nazis committed atrocities.
The dastardly media at the service of the US and NATO have of course concealed the awful truth. While we were watching for months and months the serb artillery tearing Muslims and Croat civilians to shreds, the "Arab afghans", hidden from the cameras, were shelling Serbian towns just as badly, isn't that right? But the brave anti-fascist Serbs were so proud they didn't report their dead, so the ICRC has 8 times as many Muslims missing than Serbs.
James's impeccable logic has found a confederate in a certain media personality who pontificates that all sides committed atrocities. Isn't that so wonderfully postmodern? I feel so outmoded not being able to relativize my feelings of outrage and disgust.
What would it take to convince you guys that the Serbs are genocidal aggressors? A Ruanda?
|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
|| [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of James Heartfield
||
|| In message <005d01c1711f$b061aa40$6401a8c0 at mw.mediaone.net>,
|| Luke Weiger
|| <lweiger at umich.edu> writes
||
|| of the Civil War in the former Yugoslavia
||
|| >it's clear that
|| >only one side possessed the requisite material means to manifest their
|| >hatred in the form of mass murders/expulsions with regularity.
||
|| Not so. Both the Bosnian Muslims (themselves supported 'Arab Afghans')
|| and Croats had armies that fought (and eventually won) the civil war.
|| These too were involved in atrocities. In Krajina, Croat troops
|| massacred thousands and expelled 200 000 Serbs.
||
|| In September 1995 Muslim and Croat forces pushed back the Bosnian-Serbs
|| from central and Western Bosnia, supported by US air-power. 13 Tomahawk
|| Cruise missiles were fired on Serbs in Banja Luka.
||
|| That Luke's history lesson has air-brushed out one side in the
|| civil war
|| (well, two sides, if you count the on-off war between Croats and
|| Muslims) is pretty remarkable, and evidence of the one-sided account of
|| the conflict that has been established as if it were fact.
||
|| It's all the more remarkable when one considers that this historical
|| amnesia completely expunges the war Luke's own government made upon
|| Bosnian Serbs from his recollection.
||
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|| James Heartfield