Max Sawicky wrote:
The author is John Quiggin of Oz, an outstanding social-dem economist
and blog-acquaintance of mine.
From http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/rotten-timber/
Since Serb-bashing is fairly well entrenched at Crooked Timber, I was
surprised to discover that one of the contributors by the name of John
Quiggin had a change of heart–sort of. He wrote something called “Second
Thoughts on Kosovo” that expressed misgivings over the lack of a UN
Security Council fig-leaf to legitimize the war. Since the Security
Council is widely understood to be dominated by the USA and its lackeys,
one can reasonably ask what the big deal is. He frets that ignoring
international law might have led to the Iraq disaster. Obviously, the
war in Iraq and NATO’s war in Yugoslavia had exactly the same causes,
the drive of the USA to establish and maintain global hegemony in
pursuit of profit. Some people like Christopher Hitchens are consistent
in their support of both wars, while Quiggin and company quibble over
the law. The law, as someone once said, is an ass and so is he.
I should add that Quiggin teaches economics in Australia and exhibits
the same kind of genial superficiality as Holbo. I guess standards are
laxer in Australia than they are elsewhere in academia.
In the course of the discussion on Quiggin’s piece, I posted four times.
For most blogs that is considered fairly normal. After I tried to post a
fifth comment, Quiggin announced:
>>Louis, I think your defence of Milosevic has been put forward at
sufficient length. I;ve deleted your last comment and anything further
from you on this thread will be deleted.
To everyone else, please don’t feed the trolls by responding further to
pro-Milosevic apologists – the answers already given are adequate. On
the same topic, don’t bother responding to “Steve” either. Anything from
him will be deleted.<<
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