Assuming Keenan's review of Chomsky paraphrases him accurately, his
assessment of Serbian atrocities seems to fluctuate with the requirements of
his argument. Back in March, he opened his attack on NATO's intervention
this way:

"The decision by NATO to bomb Yugoslavia followed a year-long humanitarian
catastrophe overwhelmingly attributable to Yugoslav military forces. The
main victims were ethnic Albanian Kosovars, wome 90 percent of the
population of this Yugoslav territory. The standard estimate of the human
devastation was 2,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of refugees."

--Z Magazine, 3/27/99, reprinted in Harper's, June 99.

It even Chomsky admits that the Serbs butchered 2000 Kosovars before the
bombing began, how do we get to these absurd, Stratfor-type estimates after?
Did NATO bombing resurrect the dead? Or--gasp--did NATO actually forestall a
greater catastrophe, exactly as they claimed (as the body baggers fear)?
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Tresy Kilbourne
Seattle WA