>>At 02:23 PM 4/23/99 -0400, Barkley wrote: >>> This "heart of Serbia" argument is just the worst sort of pathetic >>drivel. I am very sorry that these suffering people are so fixated on >>such deluded garbage.< I wrote: >>One problem is the US/NATO-imposed suffering is pushing them to embrace >>that kind of deluded garbage. Doug writes: >Maybe my Zizek is showing, but nationalist movements typically flourish >when a group is under outside attack or dominance (and fall apart when the >external threat is removed), and invent a grand history to which they're >the inheritors among their foundational acts. You're not going to refute >its emotional appeal to Serbians with rational argument. i wasn't trying to do so. We agree. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html Bombing DESTROYS human rights. US/NATO out of Serbia!
