en klargjørende oppsummering av den diplomatiske situasjon etter 46 dager
med bombing (som for Trond Andresen enda ikke er tilstrekkelig til å skifte
standpunkt) er å finne på Z-Net,
http://www.zmag.org/dipscene.htm
Den tar utgansgpunkt i en resolusjon i det serbiske paralment den 23. mars
1999 (dagen før bombingen startet) og sammenholder med det som nå gjelder
(G-8 forslaget). Oppsummeringen avsluttes slik:
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...That seems to be the essence of it, as of May 8, which is to say nothing
much has changed after the U.S. chose violence over diplomacy on March 24,
apart from the human consequences which are of course of little concern to
the masters and easily attributed by their servants to genocidal Serbs, and
apart from the slowly growing resistance to the war in many quarters, which
is far more consequential to the masters and which, if it grows
sufficiently, could compel them to reinterpret once again their own words
and to settle essentially in the manner indicated by the Yugoslav Assembly
on March 23.
Pending the growth of such anti-war resistance, we may be in for many more
ugly days. Britain's campaign is called Operation Agricola. Apart from his
own estimable feats, Agricola was the father-in-law of Tacitus, famous for
defining Roman imperialism with the phrase "they make a desert and call it
peace." And for his astute observation that "crime once exposed had no
refuge but in audacity" -- a favorite maxim of John Quincy Adams, for good
reason, given his own role in massive slaughter and ethnic cleansing. At
least you have to admire the British their classical education.
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Knut Rognes