Just so people know, Michael Bliss (see article below) is a right-wing history professor (or as many of us on the local activist scene like to label him - the myth maker of Western civilization) at the University of Toronto. The article is written for a right-wing newspaper, which is owner by a real right-wing media mogul (owning something to the tune of 70% of Canada's printed media), Conrad Black. Nevertheless, Bliss's anti-war position (however misguided his analysis and however sinister the intentions that belie it) is praiseworthy. In an anti-war movement, "rag-tag" is inevitable. In solidarity, Greg. Michael Eisenscher wrote: > IN THIS MESSAGE: POST-WAR DISILLUSIONMENT AHEAD; Yugoslav Army Orders Kosovo > Pullout; Chicano POWs Return; Clinton Quest for Appearance of Victory > > The National Post Monday, May 10, 1999 > > POST-WAR DISILLUSIONMENT AHEAD > > We've reached such a level of callousness that our media > barely notice NATO's accidental murder of scores of civilians > in one incident after another. After the war ends, we'll surely > question > the barbarism into which we've descended. > > By Michael Bliss > > The idealists who support NATO's war against Yugoslavia will > suffer multiple disillusionments in its aftermath. > The ability to mobilize idealism has been the key to the public > support NATO's attacks on Yugoslavia have enjoyed. Important > legal and strategic issues have been swept aside by the claim that > the Milosevic regime represents radical evil, that it is pursuing a > genocidal policy of ethnic cleansing, which, according to NATO > and many Western politicians, includes systematic rape, mass > executions, and other atrocities. We are fighting a regime that > commits crimes against humanity, we are told, a government that > ranks with Hitler's or with the murderous regimes of Cambodia and > Rwanda. > Our side has no aim in the war except to stop the evil. We > desire no territory, and we are promising to spend billions after the > war rebuilding Yugoslavia and neighbouring countries. Even if the > war isn't going very well, we can at least take comfort in knowing > that our intentions are honourable. It's all OK, Gwynne Dyer told > Canadians early on in The Globe and Mail, because "at last," we > were involved in "a good war." The editors of the National Post > seem to take the same consolation. > Canadians are a particularly idealistic people when it comes to > world affairs, and this explains why we are one of the more hawkish [snip]
