Re: Kosovo and DU

To clarify my earlier, quickly written post: I agree substantially with what
Warren has written below. He said it much better than I did.

In my opinion, Milosevic is quite probably responsible for the murder of
many civilians, as are some of his underlings. But it is the ease at which
so many people in the U.S. accept the lies that the U.S. government has
spread that concerns me. Seriously, nobody likes the grisly job of "counting
the bodies" killed by various sides in every conflict. But then everyone
does it. So I do it to. Compared to the U.S. empire of the past fifty years,
there is no regime, not even the Nazi regime, that comes close to being
responsible for the deaths of so many civilians. (But of course the Nazis
only had about 12 years!)  I have no problem wishing the absolute WORST for
Milosevic. Will others do the same for
Pinochet-Suharto-Thatcher-Blair-Carter-Reagan-Bush-Clinton, each of whom are
responsible for far more deaths of innocent civilians than Milosevic...

Alan S..



----- Original Message -----
From: <wwagar@binghamton.edu>
To: "Michael Pugliese" <debsian@pacbell.net>
Cc: <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 3:25 PM
Subject: 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
>