Re: Kosovo and DU

        Okay.  Gunder may be right.  The main point is his remark about
"Albanian combatants."  We must never forget that, whatever their
provocation, Albanians mounted armed resistance against Serbian
control of Kosovo, resistance that Serbia had every right to oppose by
force just as Turks claim the right to oppose Kurds, Spaniards to oppose
Basques, and you name it.  I don't imagine that Turkey and Spain will be
expelled from NATO any time soon!  Not convenient to the boys in the
Pentagon, nicht wahr?

        Thanks, Gunder.  This time we really are on the same side.

        Warren

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 franka@fiu.edu wrote:

> everything warren says is right - except the second sentence.
> there is no evidence of any such campaign, and the NATO/Brit "defense'
> minister-now NATO head's, claim of 10,000 then 100,000 Albian massacred at
> Serb hands has turned out by Nato and other forenscic teams to have been
> less  than 2,000 - far too many but far fewer  than necessary to whip up
> popular support for the NATO mission = to expand eastward, and of the
> 2,000 many were Albanian combatants and others probably were also
> Serbs. And as to the alleged Serb plan that Warren refers to,
> 1. the Germans invented an alleged such plan, which was then shown to be a
> hoax, even in leaked German foreing ministry reports and [all another
> Tonkin Gulf and incubator babies in Kuwait]
> 2. many Albanians fled into Serbia - from NATO!
> 
> to beOn Sun, 14 Jan 2001 wwagar@binghamton.edu wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:37:08 -0500 (EST)
> > From: wwagar@binghamton.edu
> > To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu
> > Subject: Kosovo and DU
> > 
> > 
> >     The well-deserved flap about DU should not obscure the fundamental
> > evil involved in the U.S./NATO rampage against Serbia.  I do not doubt
> > that Serbia had in mind a campaign that would drive many ethnic Albanians
> > over the border, with ethnic Albanian casualties in the process pour
> > encourager les autres.  The U.S. once engaged in "Indian wars" to effect
> > the same result.  Be that as it may.
> > 
> >     The real point is that the United States and its "allies"
> > intervened in the affairs of a Balkan republic in the hope of teaching a
> > lesson, to wit:  do not adjust your television sets, we are in control,
> > and we will bomb into submission anybody who resists us.  If it helps us
> > to demolish your tanks by resorting to nuclear weapons, so be it.  We are
> > above the law, if law there be, and we will use our technology to slice
> > you to ribbons.  Should any civilians on the ground die in the process, so
> > much the worse for them!  We're not trying to save them, anyway, we're
> > trying to assert our hegemony.  Should any of our precious peacekeepers
> > die in the process, well, we never promised them a rose garden.  Besides,
> > they're not us!  They're expendable, right?
> > 
> >     Of course the ultimate jest is the "D" in "DU."  The uranium is
> > depleted for any serious use in weapons or energy production, but if it
> > remains radioactive for several millennia, hey, that's life!  Or
> > half-life.  Or death. ...
> > 
> >     Yours in disgust,
> > 
> >     Warren
> > 
> > 
> 
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