(My first Guild thread-creation....hope this all turns out OK. Here goes.....
(My first Guild thread-creation....hope this all turns out OK. Here goes.....
By George, I think I did it!
Now that you mention it (or rather, mentioned it) what was Mandela's stand on that murder of nearly a million people? Don't believe I heard him spewing at clinton for igoring the problem.
Imagine that Nazi Germany had had no expansionist ambitions but had simply made it a policy in the late 1930's and early 1940's to slaughter all the German Jews. Do we think a government has the right to do whatever it wants on its own territory? Maybe the governments of Europe would have said that 60 years ago. But would we approve now of their decision?
I'm sure as Susan penned this she was quite proud of herself for this statement. Wonder how it's going down now?
But of course this couldn't happen, could it? Not in Europe. My friends in Sarajevo used to say during the siege: How can "the West" be letting this happen to us? This is Europe, too. We're Europeans. Surely "they" won't allow it to go on.
But they -- Europe -- did.
As usual Susan. At least they're consistent. But no need to worry in silence anymore (we know you have to keep quiet else you won't get invited to all the good parties) the adults are in charge now. Just be silent and let us take care of it.
Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.
Repeat that 10 times every 6 hours, take plenty of laxative and never ever call me. That'll be $500, thank you and you're welcome.
"an extension of my sympathies to other selves...territories...phah, phah, phah, phah..." What a load of unmitigated self-inflating crap.
At the risk of sounding shallow (again) I noticed in her biography that her father was a fur trader. Is that one of those Davy Crockett hats on her sympathetic head?
Sontag's piece on Kosovo repeats the same old inaccuracies regarding the Serbs, of course. Milosevic was a communist bastard, no doubt, but did not embark on a program of ethnic cleansing. While she's boo-hooing over the poor heroin-smuggling KLA (muslim terrorists), why doesn't she take a look at what happened in Croatia in 1991? Until that time, the Serb population ran about 12 percent. The Croatians embarked on their own little program to drive them out, and most fled to Serbia (where Clinton later bombed the bejeezus out of them in 1999).
In 1998, when Mr. M and I visited his cousins in Zagreb and the little Croatian villages from which Mr. M's Serbian grandparents emigrated, the Serb population in Croatia was down to 4 percent of the population. In 1993, Mr. M's cousins in Ogulin operated a little coffee bar on the first floor of their house, and the family of four lived in the tiny upstairs apartment. At about 3 a.m. they were awakened by an explosion. Earlier that evening, a couple of Croatian "patrons" of the coffee bar had planted two bombs there. Why? Because the owners were Serb, and it was a popular gathering place for their Serb neighbors, and Serbs had to be convinced to get out.
Fortunately, no one was injured, but the bar was destroyed and the building still bears the marks of the explosion. This was commonplace. One night, bombs were set off all over town, but only in the homes and businesses of Serbs. Dozens were killed. Maddy HalfBright made a tour of the area a while later and her hosts told her about that night, more or less - except that they told her it was the Serbs who had bombed Croatian families. Of course, being an idiot, she believed it.
I know I'm rambling and will wrap this up soon, but the Clintons and their liberal buttkissers also demonstrated the Chirac-like tendency to forget what had been done for them in the past. Just like France is spitting on the memory of the thousands of Americans who died trying to liberate their country from the Nazis, the Clinton Administration turned on the one group in the Balkans who had fought the Nazis. Serbs rescued hundreds of American pilots who were shot down in one famous incident, and the nationalist (bad word to Sontag) Serb Chetniks fought both the Nazis and the Communists, while assisting the U.S. in the war.
Don't even get me started on the liberal hypocrisy regarding Rwanda, where Clinton apparently found it just dandy that a bunch of Africans were slaughtering one another. But I've never doubted the real racists in this country are on the left.