----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 1:54 PM Subject: Re: Balkanization
> >It's not as though everyone suddenly got sick of fighting. Treaties were
> >signed, and a strong international presence is there to ensure the
> >implementation of their terms.
>
> You have a gift for seizing on the wrong point.
And a carefully cultivated one at that.
> Balkanization caused the war
> in Yugo. In 1990, most Yugos felt thay they were Yugos, not Serbs or
> Bosnians or whatever.
I'm not so sure that's what they felt, but the CW is that Tito did a terrific job of suppressing long-simmering ethnic tensions.
> The Alabanians in Kosova were different, but they were
> being oppressed by the rest of the Yugos. And eventhat was nowhere near
> civil war. Balkanization, encouraged by the US, Britian,a nd Germany, fed
> the flames of a natonalism that was cynically created by the Milosovic's
et
> al to keep themselves in power after the collapse of communism. The
treaties
> and the international presense made things much much worse.
So you think conditions would improve if the peace keepers vacated the region ASAP?
> Why not? Because the Palestineans are so crazed that even if they have
their
> farms and shops they won't be able to stop themselves from warpping
> themselves in explosives and blowing themselves up in cafes and buses in
> Israel? Why do you think so?
It's not a matter of crazed Palestinians, but rather of two peoples whose perceived "rights" conflict.
-- Luke
> jks
>
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