Adrien, you would have been right in step during the V.N. war,
when cold war liberals all supported the slaughter until the last
couple of years, then NO ONE had supported the empire.
>
> >If people on this list don't want to read more news from
> >Yugoslavia, please do tell me that, but I'm not going to stoop sending mail
> >because of one guy...
> >
>
> Rata,
>
> Take no notice of him. Keep going. The trouble with mail lists is that
> you can never really be sure that someone shooting his mouth off (like Mr
> Meecham) isn't, say, a precocious but earnest 17 year old angry lad,
> empowered by the anonymity and outreach facility of e-mail, pumped up by
> reading an epiphanic Chomsky article or two... or whether he is someone
> with a considered view worth listening too. Judging by the graceless,
> pointless way he has 'dealt' with your contributions I certainly do not
> think he is much of a thinker, or if he is, he's disguising it... or
> perhaps just having a bad day. There's also a whiff of xenophobia off his
> shallow retort... or is it just a touch of bog standard Right-or-Left
> American chauvinism? Ignore him.
>
> Perhaps he'll tell me to stop posting to the list now too.
>
> All the best
>
> Adrian
>