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To: Ichabod Walrus
Thanks for that link to the Rockler article. I think it might come in useful, with all the comparisons between the farce in the Hague and Nuremberg flying around at the moment.

It's possible to read the Harris article as a clever piece of propaganda. I prefer to see it as the work of someone who might, just might, be on the verge of realising the truth about this whole affair. I think it'll be interesting to see how the tone of the media coverage of the trial alters as it goes on. It's started as you might expect, with the atrocity stories, Hitler comparisons and so on. Some commentators like Harris are now starting to admit to a grudging respect for Slobo. The next stage might be when they realise that what he is saying has a lot of truth in it. "Robert Harris - His Struggle With Truth"?

I'm probably being too optimistic. Nobody likes to admit he was wrong, least of all a journalist.

57 posted on 02/14/2002 1:33:36 AM PST by Arkle
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To: Arkle
It's such a bad comparison, it has no intellectual merit at all.

A better comparison could be made between Goering and today's leaders of NATO. The article is absurd.

When we look at Milosevic and such matters as the Dayton Agreement or the Rambouillet Ultimatum, he could be better compared to a Pole asked to put his pen to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, or a Czech leader agreeing to the seizure of the Sudetenland.

Welcome to the world of Orwell, where nobody has learned anything from history, and the persecuted are labelled as aggressors.

58 posted on 02/14/2002 11:08:08 AM PST by Ichabod Walrus
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