Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:44:33 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: Anarchy Magazine and Violence




On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Chuck Munson wrote:

> I wonder if we agree that the resolution of this crisis, through
> violence or negotiation, would have best been left in the hands of the
> Europeans.

I most certainly agree with that position.  


> That being said, I really think this war is about the U.S. showing that
> it thinks it has the right to interven anywhere. There are other human
> rights tragedies around the world, similar to Yugoslavia, that the U.S.
> hasn't intervened in.

Yes, we have discussed these things ad naseum whilst you were away.
However, I'm still torn over whether it was the U$ showing its mettle or
Blair and Schroeder and that Frog guy that picked the fight for the U$.
Albright is nuts, but Blair and Schroeder and the French really pushed
this issue.  The Grrrmans and Frogs for the cause of the EU, and Blair for
both domestic reasons and basically he's as immature as Clinton.

Albright, not to be seen as having lesser testes took up the UK/EU cause
and shoved Holbrooke out of the way.  Voila, although the Grrrmans spent
years stirring it up, suddenly it looks like a classic U$ hit job.
 
> > And for what it's wirth, I'm willing to sacrifice every pacifist in europe
> > just to see me proved worng.
> 
> That would be interesting.

Yeah, you noticed all of the radical/lib serbs understood that civil
disobedience would get themselves killed for no good reason when Milosevic
cut loose.  Funny how none of the other liberal Ghandi/MLK disciples
around the wirld have taken note of the pragmatic run for cover.



carp