----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad DeLong" <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 8:20 PM Subject: RE: The Chomsky Documentation Project
> >I've built it. If they don't come, it's their own damn fault.
> >(Jewish mode of evangelism).
> >
> >mbs
> >
> >
> >At 05:52 PM 6/21/02 -0400, Max Sawicky wrote:
> >>hey kids, won't this be fun . . .
> >>
> >>http://www.maxspeak.org/Hot_Buttons/chomsky.htm
> >>
> >>mbs
> >
> >
> >you need to bone up on evangelizing properly. heh.
>
>
> Will I learn just what the "cynical great power reasons" for U.S.
> intervention in the Balkans in the 1990s were? They must have been
> some doozy, because they led Clinton to choose the Bosnian Muslims as
> America's "Balkan Clients." Usually, when one chooses clients for
> cynical great power reasons, one chooses CLIENTS WITH WEAPONS!!
> CLIENTS THAT HAVE POWER!! CLIENTS THAT CAN DEFEND THEMSELVES!!
>
> We in the Clinton administration must have been really brilliant
> when, looking for a Balkan client for cynical great power reasons, we
> passed over Slobodan Milosevic, the biggest, meanest, nastiest,
> best-armed S.O.B. in the peninsula, and chose instead the Bosnian
> Muslims...
>
>
> Brad DeLong
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But if they're already armed who'll make $$ on new arms sales; why, you create "an underdog" and fund them........
Ian