Bill, there is no point expla

Bill, there is no point explaining Oric's behavior in terms of prior bad behavior by the Serbs. There were no "good guys" in Bosnia. Despite attempts by people like Susan Sontag and Christopher Hitchens to ennoble the Moslems, there was ethnic cleansing going on across the board. Croats victimized Serbs. Serbs victimized Moslems. Moslems victimized Serbs. And so on. Yugoslavia imploded because of economic pressures brought on by international lending institutions, a declining economy, etc. The one thing that you anarchists seem unable to explain is the particular animosity directed toward Milosevic which differed little than that directed toward any attempt today in the former Soviet bloc to institute measures against rampant neoliberalism. Privatization has created economic misery in Serbia. The IMF understood that the Titoist underpinnings of the Yugoslav state had to be smashed. I realize that things like a job in a state-owned factory are not exciting to somebody with anarchist dreams of humanity's glorious classless future but when you have bills to pay, such mundane considerations do tend to matter.

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