Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 11/04/2005 - 19:15.
From a logical perspective, the above post is engaging in logical fallacies. (From a rhetorical perspective, it is engaging in redundancy.)
So let's see. Becuase Oric was using Srebrenica as a base for attacks on Serb civilians, it was "legitimate" for the Serb forces to kill 8,000 civilians and captives. By this same "logic," because Milosevic was using Serbia as a base for atttacks on Muslim Slav and Albanian civilians, it was "legitimate" for Clinton to bomb Belgrade. Oh wait a minute, that one doesn't sound so good, does it?
And then we are told, once again, that the losses at Srebrenica were "exaggerated." No evidence provided, we are supposed to accept this on faith, even though it contradicts the findings of a rigorous international investigation.
And (de regueur) an irrelevant US atrocity (in this case the Highway of Death) is brought up just to further muddy the water. It's as if each ghastly act of mass murder by US imperialism deposits karmic funds in some cosmic bank account from which the Serbs are then entitled to make a withdrawal. Hey, if Big Daddy US Imperialism can wipe out retreating troops, let us have our fun with helpless captives at Srebrenica!
And of course the "context" for Oric's crimes—the cleansing of Muslims from some 70% of Bosnia by the Serb forces—is also neatly ignored.
Same old bullshit. I don't know why I allow my blog to serve as a vehicle for this sick fascistic propaganda. There's a sucker born every minute, I guess...
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
WW4 Report pamphlets
WAR AT THE CROSSROADS
An Historical Guide Through the Balkan Labyrinth
The Balkan region is intensely multicultural—a point of crossroads and clash for some of the world's major religions, cultural spheres, and economic systems. While there have been vicious wars in Balkan history, these have taken place in the context of manipulation by imperial powers—from the Roman empire to NATO.
WW4 Report pamphlets
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK:
LEGACY OF REBELLION
A Century and a Half of Protest & Resistance on New York's Lower East Side
A concise chronicle of the Tompkins Square riots of 1857, 1863 (Civil War draft riots), 1874, 1877 (national railroad strike), 1967 (hippies fight back) and 1988 (anarchists versus police state)—and how the battles over one small park in lower Manhattan have been a microcosm of the class and social struggles that have shaped America and the world.
Learn how to write, and to think, willya?
From a logical perspective, the above post is engaging in logical fallacies. (From a rhetorical perspective, it is engaging in redundancy.)
So let's see. Becuase Oric was using Srebrenica as a base for attacks on Serb civilians, it was "legitimate" for the Serb forces to kill 8,000 civilians and captives. By this same "logic," because Milosevic was using Serbia as a base for atttacks on Muslim Slav and Albanian civilians, it was "legitimate" for Clinton to bomb Belgrade. Oh wait a minute, that one doesn't sound so good, does it?
And then we are told, once again, that the losses at Srebrenica were "exaggerated." No evidence provided, we are supposed to accept this on faith, even though it contradicts the findings of a rigorous international investigation.
And (de regueur) an irrelevant US atrocity (in this case the Highway of Death) is brought up just to further muddy the water. It's as if each ghastly act of mass murder by US imperialism deposits karmic funds in some cosmic bank account from which the Serbs are then entitled to make a withdrawal. Hey, if Big Daddy US Imperialism can wipe out retreating troops, let us have our fun with helpless captives at Srebrenica!
And of course the "context" for Oric's crimes—the cleansing of Muslims from some 70% of Bosnia by the Serb forces—is also neatly ignored.
Same old bullshit. I don't know why I allow my blog to serve as a vehicle for this sick fascistic propaganda. There's a sucker born every minute, I guess...