-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 4/12/99 7:31:55 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Where have all the Western liberals gone? Nearly two weeks into
> NATO's war against Serbia, there is barely a whimper of protest in
> either Europe or North America. But then you can't expect Western
> peaceniks to protest against a war they themselves are waging.
>
> Nearly eight years ago, the U.S. Democrats came very close to
> denying the President, Mr. George Bush, the authority to wage a war
> against Iraq's Mr. Saddam Hussein. But now it is a Democrat in the
> White House who is pursuing an open-ended war in the Balkans. In
> Britain, many leading lights of the Labour Party and the Left had
> strongly protested against the Gulf War. Now a Labour Prime
> Minister, Mr. Tony Blair, is among the NATO hawks on Kosovo.
>
> The reversal of attitudes towards war and peace among liberals is
> most visible in Germany, where the ruling alliance of Social
> Democrats and pacifist Greens has ordered the German bombers into
> combat for the first time since the end of Second World War.
>
> Until recently, German public opinion refused to endorse the
> participation of German armed forces even in international peace-
> keeping missions, given the sensitivities arising from the Nazi
> past. But now there is strong support in Germany for the war
> against Serbia.
>
> In France, where the intelligentsia traditionally revelled in
> opposing American "Cowboy imperialism", is backing the war against
> Serbia. The French Government, which had been promoting the idea
> of a "multipolar world" is now firmly with the United States in the
> Balkan war.
>
> The conservative French President, Mr. Jacques Chirac, and
> Socialist Prime Minister, Mr. Lionel Jospin, have set aside
> political differences and the traditional suspicion of the NATO
> to line up behind the bombing of Belgrade.
>
> Although there is some unease in Europe -- particularly among the
> former Communists and in Greece -- at the unfolding war in the
> Balkans, the measure of political unity that has emerged in the
> Continent against Serbia is unprecedented. A war started by the
> Western liberals in the Balkans has now gained strong support from
> the conservatives -- of course, for entirely different reasons.
>
> The liberals have always recoiled at the idea of going to war in
> pursuit of such crass objectives as balance of power, geopolitics,
> or securing valuable natural resources such as oil. The European
> liberals were particularly irked by what they saw as attempts by
> the U.S. to drag their nations, through the NATO, into such wars.
>
> They see the war in the Balkans, however, as being driven not by
> narrow national interests but by the moral imperative of preventing
> "genocide", "ethnic cleansing" and the return of "barbarism" to
> Europe. Although many in the world may not share this view,
> there is no denying the strength of this belief in Europe, and
> the absence of any sympathy for the Serb point of view.
>
I'm a liberal and I agree with this article. We're through the Looking
Glass now. Lawmakers I have admired are on TV saying we must do whatever is
needed to win this. Senators who were opposed to Viet Nam (not to mention a
President who passionately opposed Viet Nam) are "championing" the cause of
the KLA and the Kosavars.
I am beginning to wonder if the ridiculous basis for impeachement was a
ruse to arouse the disgust of thoughtful people and bind them in loyalty to
the "victim" president so we would be loyal to him while he uses our huge
military force to decimate cities and people during this "humanitarian"
mission.
Imagine the likes of me calling Trent Lott and Jesse Helms to thank them
for their opposition to this NATO action. Imagine the likes of me vowing
never to use the name "Kennedy" and the word "humanitarian" in the same
sentence again, except to point out that he ISN'T one.
The doves have become hawks and the hawks doves. The country has gone
mad.
Samm
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