Jim Devine wrote: >I'm surprised the US doesn't see Milosevic as "our SOB." They might if the Albanian 'nationalist' leaders and/or the Serbian 'democratic' oppositions were left-wingers who refused to be controlled or manipulated by Americans and instead attacked the interests of capital. The US govt. happened to take up the cause of Albanian secessionists and the so-called 'Alliance for Change' because both (along with Croatian, Bosnian Muslim, and Slovenian leaders) could be used as convenient pretexts + vehicles for asserting + expanding the American hegemony. The rulers of the West probably have benefited from Americans' + Europeans' ambivalence--the sense that there is no forward movement toward emancipation, only defensive actions to hold onto what's left of Yugoslavia, politically + geographically--immobilizing and discouraging many of them from putting up an active, passionate, coherent, and well-organized opposition to the war and now occupation. Yoshie
