At Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:34:55 +1100, you wrote:
>
>Hello again, and thanks Nicole for the long and insightful discussion
>of neocolonialism.
>
> I was watching the world news on television last night pondering
>these issues, and it was very depressing. I hadn't noticed before
>just how bad it was -- the entire 1/2 hour was taken up with stories
>about stupid men killing eachother for no good reason, sometimes with
>America coming in and threatening to kill everyone if they don't stop
>killing eachother. There were two women in the entire program -- the
>presenter, and Elizabeth Dole (the US presidential campaign got a
>mention at the end). I was thinking about Nicole's comments about media
>distortion, and I thought I would ask: is the situation really as we
>are expected to beleive it? That is, that these idiotic men started
>killing for no good reason, and America / the UN "had" to come in and
>use force to diffuse the situation. Neglecting the use of force for now
>(since some would argue that violence is NEVER called for), is it
>really the case that these wars just start up on their own, or is it
>usually the result of first world meddling?
In the case of the former Yugoslavia (now Yugoslavia [Serbia and Montenegro], Kosovo,
Croatia and Bosnia), ethnic and religious hatreds, mainly those of the Greek Orthodox
Serbs but also those of the Catholic Croats, the ethnic Albanian Kosovars, and the
Muslim Bosnians, which had been long repressed by the iron hand of Tito, sprang to the
fore when that repression dissolved. These hatreds have led Yugoslavia to splinter
into autonomous parts generally along these ethnic and religious lines, in spite of
Serbian Yugoslavia's genocidal and terroristic attempts to prevent this.
Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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