In a message dated 10/8/00 4:52:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I have never said that Milosevic is a
proponent of socialism
I am relieved; I thought you were losing it. One could have got that
impression.
>(he is thought of as such in the Western mass
media & by the Serbian oppositions,
Can't speak for the former opposition there. It's nit my impressuion that is
the picture in the western media. Socialism is rather off the map. He's just
portrayed a "dictator," as the Chicago Tribune called him this morning, which
is actually a bit strong compared to some real dictators.
> however, which explains their
demonization of this figurehead),
A figurehead he wasn't. He was the Boss.
> Milosevic as an individual politician is not the
point for the West in any case. Milosevic could have been a reliable
Western asset if he had been allowed to sell out; >>
Like Saddam Hussein, and like S.H., it's still something of a puzzle why the
West decided to make a target of him. No ever said S.H. was a "socialist."
--jks
