Civility

Dear WSN --

If anyone out there needs further proof of the intentions of the
indefatiguable, prolific, witless Mr. Proyect, please read the
following.

"If members of the
world systems fraternity anticipate a less than civil response, then the

solution is simple. Do not send me private posts or public posts
challenging my ideas."

I think that it is interesting that someone who identifies himself as a
person trying to change society today will not suffer his views to be
challenged.  This latest diatribe started out after his receiving a
request for 'civility' in writing on the wsn list brings out a long,
boring series of  'points' of how civility is a politicized term. Ugh!

I am still digesting AGF's article on the NATO bombing, and have not
previously commented on it for the list, but, I do have this to say. I
too have been greatly troubled by the use of previously, exclusively
defensive NATO to end the fighting in Kosovo. However, something must be
done, and if no one organization has the ability and determination to do
it, then NATO must. For the past 10 odd years we have watched the former
Yugoslavia convulse in a series of bloody civil wars. The region must be
stabilized. I don't why the world did nothing during the ethnic
cleansing in Rwanda, but that inactivity can not disqualify us from
acting now. Perhaps when the ethnic Albanians have stopped fleeing their
burning villages and the murderous troops of Milosevic, perhaps after
they have been fed and found whatever family members have been able to
get out, perhaps when they are comfortably ensconced in their refugee
camps,  they'll be kind enough to get online and give us their take on
the situation.

Patrick Preston