Milutin writes:
> Martin wrote:
> >I have seen no messages from Milutin protesting the bombing of
> Chechnya.
>
> Nor have you seen any on the bombing of Iraq(continues still today),
> or the violence in East Timor(oh, Clinton can’t call this
> genocide), or the daily horrors which we just call
> “capitalism”.

Just stick to your double standard on bombing, Milutin.  You protested
the NATO bombing; you did not protest the Russian bombing.  Double
standard.  Milutin's moral code is swiss cheese.

> I subsidies these activities.  It’s against my will though(not
> according to Martin, because “I can leave this country whenever I
> want”).

So it's not about morality.  It's not about solidarity.  It's about
money.  You don't like subsidizing these activities.  If you aren't
subsidizing them, they don't count.

> >Nobody else has protested the bombing of Chechnya either.  Not on this
> list, and nowhere else, either, that I have seen.
>
> I agree, the areas I’m more involved in haven’t said a word on it
> either(that I’ve noticed).
>
> >So can we finally admit that the protests of the NATO bombing were not
> motivated by the immorality of bombing?
>
> Quick jump to that conclusion.  I think you would have to provide a little
> bit more evidence?

You just did provide evidence above, and you will provide more
evidence below.  You are concerned about your tax money.  You don't
want your tax money to be used for bombing.

> >Because, apparently, bombing Chechens is ok.  Bombing Serbs is not.
>
> Much of these Chomsky list has been silent for a few weeks now.  My
> anti-Nato stuff was first in responds to others and then I started posting
> other relevant stuff.
>
> I have to admit though, it is much different when you complain about the
> bombing of Iraq, or genocide in East Timor(the worst case since the
> Holocaust) then when your dealing with the country where all your family
> roots lie.  When they start bombing the city you were born in -- it is a
> little different.

In addition to your worries about how your tax money is spent, you are
nostalgic.  No statement about the immorality of bombing human
beings, just don't use my money to subsidize it, and don't bomb the
place where I was born.

> Now, my knowledge of YU and the Bosnian war is disproportionate to
> the amount suffering there(relative to other events in recent
> history).  So I feel guilty that I don’t know as much as what
> happened and is happening in El Salvador as I do in Kosovo.

What a guy!  Admit "guilt" about not knowing much about El Salvador
(Where did that come from? The Russians are bombing Chechnya), and
then use that "guilt" as the excuse for not protesting the immoral act
of bombing human beings.

> But, when people see my name they expect me to know more about YU
> and so I’m forced to be more educated on it.

...and, of course, there is your reputation to think of.

> When it comes to warfare in the last 50 years, YU has suffered the
> least (per day, very low intensity).  Of course, knowing the more
> extreme cases in other places of the world, like East Timor and
> Guatemala, puts everything in perspective.

Not a word about Chechnya.  Like I said, Chechens are infidels.  They
don't exist.

martin

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