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Hmmm.  I'll read the article, but it is worth noting that the Monthly Review hasn't prided itself as a friend of NATO over the years.
The International Court of Justice didn't find Serbia guilty of genocide, only that it didn't do anything to prevent the genocide or to facilitate the punishment of war criminals.  I think they were giving Serbia a break.  And it appears that there is a move amongst some Europeans to forget it ever happened, or to fog the issue with contentions of equivalent wrong-doing.
Frankly, the whole region has more than its share of murder, revenge, and massacre, and there is plenty of blame to spread.  But let me get back to my point: Serbia has not been a responsible power.  It does not seem to accept responsibility for the crimes the ICJ found it guilty of.  Kosovo is not seeking to rule Serbia, it is seeking to be separate from a country which has not been a good steward.  If Serbia wants peace, all it has to do is nothing at all.
by Andhakari on Tue Feb 19th, 2008 at 11:44:03 AM EST
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I think they were giving Serbia a break.

  1. Based on what?

  2. Why do you focus only on the crimes of Serbia? All sides committed ethnic cleanisng, chauvinist escapades, practiced no contrition, no forgiveness, and what you call immature posturing. It may be that you didn't read of those from the other sides and never have been there to experience it yourself, but that's just what UpstateNY's article is about -- media presentation.

To stress one point: Iraq was NOT the first war of the West where the MSM went on a spin overdrive, it was only the first where wide percentages of the population saw through it. Even blatant propaganda lies like in the case of WMDs weren't unprecedented -- upthread, UpstateNY mentions the Curveball story of the Kosovo War, which involved not Britain but Germany.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Feb 19th, 2008 at 12:09:48 PM EST
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that's just what UpstateNY's article is about

askod, not UpstateNY.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Feb 19th, 2008 at 12:18:41 PM EST
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