>That's being very generous. But trying to image build for Milosevic
>is about as productive as trying to refurbish the image of Leonid
>Breznev. If not worse. At least Breznev didn't drag his
>country unpreparedly, and DIRECTLY, into a war with the US.
>
>They both led their countries to ruin. And through the identical
>reasons of cliquism, bureaucratic corruption, and becoming totally
>identified with the nationalism of the dominant group in a multinational
>country.
>
>And above all through arrogance and prepotencia. Through acting and
>behaving like a superior class above the rest of society.
>
>Tony
I must stress the importance of documenting such charges, since so much of
the perception of Yugoslavia and Milosevic seems framed by free-wheeling
assertions. Unless we can substantiate charges such as dragging Yugoslavia
into war through material from scholarly histories or Lexis-Nexis, then the
discussion simply will consist of mere opinionating. As Jonathan Swift once
said:
�That was excellently observed,� say I when I read a passage in another
where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him to
be mistaken.
Louis Proyect
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