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, 08/12/2005 - 21:48.
Ylber, there were 200,000 Albanian refugess displaced from their homes in Kosovo before the bombing. There were 800,000 after. The bombing only prompted Milosevic to dramatically escalate the "ethnic cleansing." Perhaps that was even its intent. And the bombing killed plenty of innocent people too (Serb and Albanian alike). I don't see how you can condemn the "cleansing" without condemning the bombing. I seem to be about the only person in the world who takes this position, but it strikes me as the only logical and consistent one.
What were the alternatives? The international community could have recognized Ibrahim Rugova's parallel government (something it still hasn't done). If this had happened early enough, the 1999 Kosovo crisis could have been avoided altogether, perhaps. A very similar situation in East Timor was resolved without military intervention, no? And East Timor has acheived independence today, while Kosovo hasn't...
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Ylber, there were 200,000 Albanian refugess displaced from their homes in Kosovo before the bombing. There were 800,000 after. The bombing only prompted Milosevic to dramatically escalate the "ethnic cleansing." Perhaps that was even its intent. And the bombing killed plenty of innocent people too (Serb and Albanian alike). I don't see how you can condemn the "cleansing" without condemning the bombing. I seem to be about the only person in the world who takes this position, but it strikes me as the only logical and consistent one.
What were the alternatives? The international community could have recognized Ibrahim Rugova's parallel government (something it still hasn't done). If this had happened early enough, the 1999 Kosovo crisis could have been avoided altogether, perhaps. A very similar situation in East Timor was resolved without military intervention, no? And East Timor has acheived independence today, while Kosovo hasn't...