tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post6292209105575388043..comments2023-06-14T09:10:27.097-04:00Comments on Gray Falcon: Blind SpotCubuCokohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-26582706299467631862011-02-11T16:13:49.169-05:002011-02-11T16:13:49.169-05:00Yes, it's the obsessive need of Big Brother to...Yes, it's the obsessive need of Big Brother to be <b>loved</b> by his victims that's at work here. Caligula's <i>Oderint dum metuant</i> is not enough for them.CubuCokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-76901508389140358402011-02-11T14:57:44.022-05:002011-02-11T14:57:44.022-05:00"Perhaps even worse, Clinton’s unprovoked att..."Perhaps even worse, Clinton’s unprovoked attack on Serbia set a precedent for “humanitarian” warring that was invoked by supporters of Bush’s unprovoked attack on Iraq."<br /><br />Bovard is not wrong here, simply incomplete, and the incompleteness is telling.<br /><br />In fact, the unprovoked attack on Yugoslavia was more than a precedent for the attack on Iraq, it was a "dry run", so to say, though not on the part of bleeding Yugoslav civilians and others, for whom it was very wet indeed.<br /><br />As for the continued demonization of Milosevic and the Serbs, there is a complex psychology at work here that cannot be reduced to a few words.<br /><br />Suffice it to say for the moment that for the British and American Calvinist Capitalists and Imperialists, it is not enough to provoke a war and "win".<br /><br />The only true victory is when the defeated admit that their defeat, however criminally accomplished, was just and necessary and thank the victors for the opportunity to submit.<br /><br />In American history particularly you can see this psychology at work again and again, especially in the dealings with the native American tribes.<br /><br />But this is only scratching the surface.Eugene Costahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-18042183812622177082011-02-01T13:01:09.344-05:002011-02-01T13:01:09.344-05:00I'll take the compliment in the spirit in whic...I'll take the compliment in the spirit in which it was given; however, I endeavor to be biased towards a certain set of (clearly outlined) values and principles, rather than towards a particular ethnic group. <br /><br />One of the things I rail against is the whole twisted logic wherein something is good if "we" do it, but bad if "they" do it (to us, or someone else).CubuCokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-68619901083284302992011-02-01T10:57:49.125-05:002011-02-01T10:57:49.125-05:00To say that something is true is often an over sim...To say that something is true is often an over simplification. But the Bovard text quoted above comes really close. Having tried to understand the PR(opaganda) from both the Serbian, Albanian, Muslim, Croat and Empire sides for a long time my conclusion is that the words of Bovard is as close as you can get to the truth in the case of the 1999 "peace"-bombs.<br /><br />I really enjoy your articles too Mr. Malic and find them almost neutral. Only slightly biased in favor of the Serb case. And that is actually a compliment because most articles written on the Balkans by other authors is much more biased to one side or the other.Lasse Johanssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15580015849895984331noreply@blogger.com