Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 14:39:06 -0400
From: Chuck Munson <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: Re: Intentionally vs. Accidentally.




danceswithcarp wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 May 1999, Chuck Munson wrote:
> 
> > Not to mention those fucking German Gren Party hacks. No surprise there.
> > They wanted to abolish NATO a decade ago, they get power, and now they
> > are the first German party to give the Luftwaffe a reason to bomb
> > somebody.
> 
> This whole thing is more and more like the U$ is playing mercenary to the
> Grrrman paymasters.  Grrrmany is in this far deeper than the U$, from
> creating the KLA to funding the KLA to training the KLA.  The old Grrman
> v. Serb feud seems at the root.  You are right in that no one at the
> whitehouse seems to understand what they've gotten into, but I do not buy
> chomsky's argument that since intervention has not been used in the
> past--or has been used very discriminately--that it should not be used at
> any time.
> 
> I do not buy into a lot of things regarding the NATO position either and I
> do think that since WWVer2.0 and especially in the 1980s and 90s that the
> U$ and Company have been way too prone to using firepower where diplomacy
> might have prevailed.
> 
> I am just not sure that this is one of those times.  Unfortunately no one
> in NATO seems to have a plan so the wirld is stuck with KosovoVer1.0 until
> the upgrade comes along.

Carp: You should check out the full article in Counterpunch (hell, I'll
make copies and send them to you). The writers point out the long
history of German interests in Yugoslavia. They also point out that the
Serbs were bombed in WW2 by the Germans, Hungarians, and others. In
1999, they are being bombed by the Germans, Hungarians, and others.

I don't think the upgrade will happen for several years. This is likely
to be Vietnam 2.

Chuck0