I don't understand WHY people don't look at a map when these things start.
It is clear what has been going on in Yugo since Croatia, Bosnia, etc.
Damned right it's about oil - RUSSIAN oil. And bet that this isn't the end
of it...
-----Original Message-----
From: William Meecham <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] "Media Beat": how not tocover ; and OIL is behind the
US attack
>It now comes out that the usual, oil, is the driving force bethind the
>agression against Yugoslavia. The (yes, Rockefellers, as Buchanan says)
>plan to take Russian oil from the Caucausus and ship it partly through
>S. Yugoslavia.
>At last we can understand this peculiar, and belated
> concern for people driven out of their homes (byh
>US bombing) when the same rulers showed no interest in Israel
>Indonesia, Guatemala and many more.
>wcm
>>
>> Milutin wrote:
>>
>> >Two points, well three...
>> >
>> >(1)Why can't the Serb military create mass graves right now?
>>
>> No reason. There is evidence that they are.
>>
>> >[...] (3)The agreement Milosevic
>> >wouldn't sign is because it would give Kosovo "de facto independence
now,
>> >with guaranteed de jure independence in three years".
>>
>> If this is what the inhabitants of Kosovo want, what is the objection?
>> >
>> >The following is from the Houston Chronicle - Outlook, by Dr. Ronald L.
>> >Hatchett on Sunday March 28th. This is just the last bit of it but it
is
>> >what you need to hear.
>> >
>> >
>> >Under the [Rambouillet] agreement, "Kosovo will have a president, prime
>> >minister and
>> >government, an assembly, its own Supreme Court, constitutional court and
>> >other courts and prosecutors."
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> >Yugoslav laws would no
>> >longer apply in Kosovo. Neither would Yugoslavia be able to exercise
police
>> >powers in Kosovo.
>>
>> As we speak the police in Kosovo are either actively engaged in, or
turning
>> a blind eye to, (at a minimum) mass deportation of a substantial portion
of
>> the civilian population. Agreeing to let the Yugoslavian state exercise
>> police powers in Kosovo is thus a totally bizarre idea. At best the
present
>> police are completely corrupt and incompetent, at worst... well I shy
away
>> from even contemplating that.
>>
>> >After three years, these arrangements would be made
>> >permanent by the "will of the people" - not the people of the whole
country
>> >of Yugoslavia of which Kosovo is supposedly a part, but only by the will
of
>> >the people of Kosovo, who are mainly Albanians.
>>
>> That is to say the will of the actual inhabitants of the area. You seem
to
>> be implying that this is problematical, perhaps you could explain why?
Its
>> a bit academic now of course, since most of the inhabitants are being
>> driven out of by their present government.
>>
>> Bill Bartlett
>> Bracknell Tas.
>>
>
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