Louis: Leaving aside my admitted hyperbole and your Hitchens bait, I can't imagine how any socialist familiar with the history of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, would want to claim Milosevic as one of their own. If you don't have a low opinion of him now, I can't imagine what it would take to change your mind.
> > As I recall, it was when the NATO air forces started bombing capital > > equipment belonging to Milosevic's business cronies that he started to wave > > the white flag. > > You seem to have a soft spot for the interventions in Yugoslavia and > Iraq, don't you. It would be truer to say that I don't see the point in taking sides, when two gangs of reactionaries are killing each other and no amount of pleading will save the innocent bystanders. On the other hand I could have a "soft spot" for any imperial intervention if I thought it was genuinely popular among the _alleged_ beneficiaries --- as in the case of Bosnians, Albanian Kosovars, East Timorese, Kurds, Solomon Islanders and so on. And they, after all, are the ones who had to live with what went before. > > http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1999/366/366p24.htm > > A group that has good politics on most questions, but who unfortunately > accomodated themselves to Croatian nationalism. GLW is, or has been, uneven in quality and coverage, but this is a strange allegation. In the first place, what does Croatia have to do with Kosovo? In the second place, when I did a quick search of the GLW web archives I found that the vast majority of the articles specifically about Croatia dated from the early 90s and many were, understandably, critical of Croatian nationalism. regards, Grant.
