Srebenica, the Sniper, and the Right Thing

Posted on October 24, 2002 in Peace

Boris Horvat wrote in an email to me last week regarding American fears and the apparent paranoia of George W. Bush:

I, for myself, can only pity him. However, I can understand,
that there are people in this world (although I do not justify
them), that hate him, or are going to hate him for his future
(mis)doings. And, as he is representing America, they are going
to hate America. And then, God bless America…

I just read a report from a book fair in Frankurt, the largest
book show in the world. There were dozens of books on 9/11 in
one year, and only one book on Srebrenica in ten years.
Remember Srebrenica? About 10.000 citizens killed in one day?

Now I’ve been hearing people say that we shouldn’t have taken the side of the Muslims in Bosnia. “The Serbs were doing the right thing,” they argue. “They were the good guys.” Now that the sniper has turned out to be a black muslim, what’s next? Insistance that we should never have freed the slaves?

After some of the whoppers I’ve seen told in Dalnet #politics, I don’t think the possibility of someone saying that is far-fetched. There are already plenty of white supremacists and Christian Identity disinformers who claim that life as a slave was wonderful. Funny, though: I have a standing offer to any of them to become my chattel slave and not a single one of them has expressed interest.

Today Boris writes:

Some of the Slovene newspapers are still independent and
open-minded, while some (and most of the politicians, too)
are already promoting the idea we-should-lick-the-ass-to-
bush-to-get-the-NATO-ticket (and live ‘peacefully’ forever 🙁

I can hardly wait for someone to extol the therapeutic and beauty-enhancing qualities of bombs and cruise missiles.