Re: Kosovo and DU

        The point, I think, is not which guys are nastier--Serbian
nationalists, Kosovar nationalists, Croatian nationalists, Spanish
nationalists, Turkish nationalists, you name it--but the selective and
brutal use of force by the current hegemons to maintain their power.  The
world-system perpetuates itself and safeguards its interests by applying
force when and where it chooses, and then bleating about its
humanitarianism.  In this case, it did so with weapons that may well have
ensured the deaths of untold thousands of civilians, not to mention
"peacekeepers."  If the horrifying reports on DU nuclear war are true,
then the charge of commission of war crimes is justified.  

        And before we become too enraged about the atrocities perpetrated
by Serbs, we need to recall the hundreds of thousands of Serbs murdered by
Bosnian and Croatian and Albanian fascists, in complicity with Nazi
Germany and Fascist Italy, during World War II.  No national group, as I
tried to argue in an earlier post, has a spotless record when it comes to
furthering national aims.  Almost everybody has been guilty at one time or
another of major atrocities, and today the guys with the greatest wealth
and military power are leading the atrocity parade, on behalf of both
national and global-capitalist objectives.  Worse yet, they decorate
themselves with wings and halos, and play harps at the United Nations.

        Warren