From: blumson-AT-email.com
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 06:07:57 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Aaron likes butchers


None of us who are many kilometers away from the event have any clear idea of what is going on in kosovo and most of us dont care either but are content to wallow in self-righteousness by critiscising every party involved (even when they deserve it). But if we really cared about what was going on in kosovo we would go there and try to solve it ourselves. i do not hold any illusions that this would acomplish anymore than nato has but i do believe that this is what anyone who genuinly believed intervention to be nescasary should do as was done in the spanish civil war or as is done by thousands of NGO's.
Anyone who saids that NATO should intervene in yugoslavia without having been themselves is simply passing off their guilt to a third party becasue they dont care about it themselves. The reason we dont live in an anarchic society is because people are always prepared to pass up their responsibilities to deal with cirme, to create infrustructure, of education and a multitude more to government. NATO intervention is supported by small minded people who feel guilty about watching these things happen but are too afraid to act themselves and so pass the problem on to governments. In the same way serbs put their own racial prejudices into the hands of the army because they done want to deal with them themselves. If you truly feel that peace should come to kosovo then go there yourself and dont try to salve your conseince by allowing what is basicaly imperialism.
Two people i know of who have done this (and are from a non-Nato country) are in jail for spying despite the fact that they are humanitarian workers. They have been courageous enough to play their own part in the crisis and not allowed themselves to be misrepresented by half hearted incompetent governments who want nothing more than a quick fix.
Otherwise you have no right to be condoning the bombing of millions for the sake of peace. A bully is often after a little sympathy or feels a lack of confidance. though an effective short term solution violence doesn't solve the cause
yours in hypocrisy
Ben Blumson

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