Alister,

Yeah,but do you try to look a little bit deeper than the "official news"?And
the accusations of which class you belong is a private decision,not yours.Or
are you a british lowerclass?
Otherwise i would say,let RATA write,if he is a person,he might have some
news,otherwise it will shut up.And,it sounds a little odd,that the reports
always seem to use the same spelling mistakes.But it might be just me.
What other choices are there,other than US or Milosevic?
I can't see any and under this circumstances i think M. is the easier
target.

Tambor


----- Original Message -----
From: "alister air" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] General Strike continues!


> At 03:51 AM 10/5/2000, William Meecham wrote:
> >This is faintly reminiscent of the cold war liberalism.  The people
> >of Yugo. naturally know that the US is threatening more slaughter.
> >Nicuaragua comes to mind.  The US slaughter puts other accusations to
shame.
>
> William,
>
> It's fairly bloody obvious that the people of Yugoslavia *want* an
> alternative.  They've had about enough of Milosevic and it's at the point
> where they feel a new President will be a qualitative step forward
> irrespective of who that new President might be.  He runs a corrupt and
> despotic regime which does not (or did not) allow for dissidents.  Perhaps
> now we'll see a slightly less corrupt regime that does allow for
dissidents
> - surely a step in the right direction.  Instead, according to you the
> Yugoslavian people should be supporting their own personal cold-war
> dinosaur merely because the alternative - while allowing them a better
life
> - has NATO support (we think).
>
> This is typical of middle-class Americans trying to tell the world what's
> best for them.  They know what they'd prefer, and as they've only been
> given two choices, they're settling for the lesser of the two evils.
>
> I especially like the way you manage to accuse everyone who disagrees with
> you of either not being a person or being complicit in everything from
> Vietnam to NATO bombing of Belgrade and everything in between.  A more
> observant person might remember the anti-Milosevic demonstrations long
> before NATO went near Yugoslavia, or might also remember that the attacks
> on Yugoslavia improved Milosevic's support and made it easier for him to
> crush his opposition.
>
> Alister
>
>
>
> --
>
> "Let us not fool ourselves, half a century after the adoption
> of this Declaration (of Human Rights) and supposedly under its
> protection, millions of people have died in the world without
> reaching the age of 50 and without even knowing that there was
> a universal document that should have protected them."
>           Roberto Robaina, Cuba's Foreign Minister