why do you say so? I don't know enough about this topic to agree or disagree.
On 5/9/07, Paul Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is the most atrocious piece of nonsense I have read in a long, long time. It is even worse than Bush's weapons of mass destruction. Paul P Jim Devine wrote: > Ft. Dix Plot is Milosevic's Fault > > The the small cell that plotted to attack Ft. Dix was made up of > Albanians from Kosovo, along with a Turk and a Jordanian. Note that in > the 1980s most Yugoslav Muslims were deracinated and secular. > Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian are really the same language, and the > only way you could tell if someone was a Muslim was to check their > i.d. cards (the Communists recognized Yugoslav Muslims as a national > minority). > > When Communism collapsed, Yugoslav politicians cast about for new > platforms. Slobodan Milosevic decided to opt for the most chauvinist > form of Serbian nationalism one could imagine, setting in motion a > vicious and brutal war for territory on the basis of ethnic identity. > Muslims in Bosnia were targeted for mass graves. Kosovo autonomy was > much reduced. > > In the aftermath of the Kosovo War of 1999, half of Kosovars lived in > poverty and fundamentalist charities started being active among them. > Kosovars were most often secular and anti-Islamic or heterodox when > religious. Milosevic monstrously attempted to use charges of al-Qaeda > presence in Kosovo (unproved) as a pretext for killing Kosovars. In > fact, his policies pushed some Kosovars into the arms of the Salafis. > > In other words, Kosovo was not about Islam. It was another > post-colonial war like many others in the post-Soviet period. If some > Kosovars now turn to radical fundamentalism, it is a result of the > collapse of the old Communist framework and the attacks on them of the > Milosevic fascists. > > [In addition, the US turned against peaceful tactics in Kosovo in the > 1990s and pumped resources into the Kosovo Liberation Army. This > encouraged the force that is now "blowing back" against the US.] > > John Tirman sees the US occupation of Iraq as generating Muslim > fundamentalist violence against the US, in a vicious circle. > > -- > Posted By Juan to Informed Comment at 5/09/2007 06:35:00 AM > __._,_.___ > > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your > own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > > -- Paul Phillips Professor Emertus, Economics University of Manitoba Home and Office: 3806 - 36A st., Vernon BC, Canada. ViT 6E9 tel: 1 (250) 558-0830 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
