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Wat Tyler <[log in to unmask]>
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The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky
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Sun, 28 Nov 1999 23:01:03 -0800
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Tresy Kilbourne wrote:
. . .
>MILOSEVIC'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS
>
>Milosevic's Willing Executioners
>
>by Stacy Sullivan
>. . .

I'm familiar with the New Republic article and am anxiously waiting for a
counter argument.

With respect to "Why did the US attack Yugoslavia?" Chomsky  prefers to
answer a slightly different question. One that is framed more to his liking at
http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/chomreplieskos.htm
which includes the following:
"[Steven Erlanger] writes that 'just before the bombing, when [the Serbian
Parliament] rejected NATO troops in Kosovo, it also supported the idea of a
United Nations force to monitor a political settlement there.' If
Erlanger's report is true, then it provides very dramatic evidence of US
intentions: . . ."

The effectiveness of UN protection is mentioned in the Stacy Sullivan article:
". . .We had been told that Kamenica was the place where Bosnian Serb
forces had killed many of the 7,000 Bosnian Muslims who were missing after
the Serbs overran the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica the previous
summer. . ."

Ken Freeland writes:
>Tresy,
>I can scarcely believe your campaign to vilify the Serbs, victims of
>clear NATO atrocities, on this venue.  In your defense against some very
>well reasoned objections to your demonization campaign, you respond by
>essentially conflating the situation in Bosnia with the situation in
>Kosovo, which is really apples and oranges. . . .

It appears that some on the left wish to have it several different ways at
once.

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