I have tried repeatedly to tell Tresy that she is on the wrong list--go
to corporate media.
>
> I assume tresy's angle is a sectarian one, so I won't presume to understand
> exactly who is being refuted or why.
> The attitude expressed in the email seems alien to me on a chomsky inspired
> list.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tresy Kilbourne [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 03 February 2000 17:11
> > To:   [log in to unmask]
> > Subject:      Re: [CHOMSKY] Former Canadaian Ambassador to Yugoslavia
> > condemns bombing
> >
> > There is also the larger illogic of trying to minimize Serbian atrocities
> > as
> > a way of discrediting "imperialist war". If "imperialist war" (ie., any
> > war
> > in which the US participates) is always immoral, then as a matter of
> > simple
> > logic it doesn't matter what the other side's guilt is. Dragging in that
> > issue, and then working overtime to try to minimize it, only highlights
> > the
> > hypocrisy of one's stated principles, and the thinness of the argument.
> > You
> > are an intelligent person, so I don't think I need to spell this out
> > further.
> >
>         It is logical to condemn Nato's bloody, futile, vicious and damaging
> interventions because they are imperialist.
>         I don't think I need to spell this out further.
>
> > Incidentally, I routinely get called a "racist" because I don't dole out
> > special moral dispensations to the Serbs for their well-documented crimes,
> > and their apparent collective refusal to even admit them; I even got
> > labeled
> > Tresy "All Niggers are Lazy and Stupid" Kilbourne by the incomparable Tony
> > "Brevity is the Soul of Wit" Abdo. I don't recall you springing to my
> > defense at this (inept) character assassination. Is it possible that there
> > are two standards at work here, one for "principled" opponents of NATO and
> > another for me? To ask the question is to answer it.
> >
>         It's a natural urge to start forgiving people who are given the rope
> to hang themselves.
>
>         Nato decided to force the Serbian government into revenge attacks on
> the Kosovars,
>         because Belgrade can't attack Washington, but it can attack
> Kosovars.
>
>         The bull in a china shop approach adopted by Nato, where you make a
> bad situation 50 times worse,
>         means that living in Western countries,it would be pointless to
> waste too much time on condemning
>         the Serbian government.-
>
>         Our interventions don't work.
>         Our people enjoy wars.
>         Our Media makes money on wars.
>         Our war machine is used again and again pointlessly.
>
>         Why waste time either apologising for or condemning the other side?
>
>         It's our side that needs the shake up.
>
> >
>