Re: AGF: What about the ethnic Albanians

The only problem is that it hasn't stopped it, but vastly accelerated it
and removed any chance of preventing it from having happened on this
scale. 


Jeffrey Sommers
Northeastern University
World History Center (http://www.whc.neu.edu)

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Ronald Deibert wrote:

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
> To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
> Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 3:24 PM
> Subject: Re: AGF: What about the ethnic Albanians?
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> 
> >On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Ronald Deibert wrote:
> >
> >>Teeny tiny Yugoslavia looks a lot different when you are an 80
> >>year old Kosavar woman with a gun in your face watching your son
> >>and grandson being led away and your house being torched.
> >
> >Cannot the same be said of an 80 year old Serbian women being fired upon
> >by a NATO warplane?
> 
> I guess you cannot see the difference between the use of force in
> the case of a systematic and deliberate campaign to rid the region
> of an ethnic group and the use of force to stop the former from taking
> place?  In my moral universe, there is a difference.
> 
> rd
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> >
> >Sorry, but your point goes absolutely nowhere.
> >
> >Andy
>