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July 12, 2005
Hitchens delivers a body blow (and so well)
From Srebrenica to Baghdad - What the genocide taught us about intervention. By Christopher Hitchens
From Srebrenica to Baghdad
What the genocide taught us about intervention.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Monday, July 11, 2005, at 9:41 AM PT
slate.com
Ronald Steel is one of the most gentle and humane liberals I have ever met, but I can still see his next-day's op-ed in the New York Times, announcing that the fall of the "safe havens" was "a blessing in disguise," since it might force the Bosnians to sue for peace. I can remember the red rage in which I wrote a letter to the Times, saying that a mass murder was a pretty effective disguise. And the sickening news, day by day, of the routine and organized torture and slaughter, and then the crude interment of the butchered cadavers, ploughed under like black plastic bags of refuse.
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The European Union utterly failed Bosnia, which was in its very own "back yard." So did the United Nations. So did the Clinton-Gore administration, for as long as it regarded Milosevic as "containable" by the use of sanctions. Bosnia did not cease to be a killing field, and Serbia did not cease to be an aggressive dictatorship until the United States armed forces took a hand. The neoconservatives, to their great honor, mostly supported an effort to prevent genocide being inflicted on Muslims: an enterprise in which Israeli interests were not involved.
Posted by cystdog at July 12, 2005 06:36 AM
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