Comments on: Eric Margolis

By: Ralph Swanson

Ralph Swanson — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:10:24 +0000

Here is the key to the attack-the-Serbs / don’t-attack-Iraq paradox: To the elitist mind the Serbs are crypto-nazi WWII holdovers who, without openly saying so, want to defend their supposed racial/ethinic purity, and the resulting culture, from the Albanian ottoman mixed bloods. Absolutely, the Western elites will not permit that mindset any political expression even if every last Serb has to be killed to prevent it. Western journalists, if they want to keep their jobs, cannot discuss the issue publicly. Racial politics is a very serious business friends, as the air raids on Hamburg, Dresden, Japan, and Serbia prove.

One can tell when th elites are really serious about restoring order, their order: They start killing the women and the children, as many and as quickly as they can. They never ever apologize for it either. If I have learned anything observing and studying the history of the last 150 years it is that.

By: shinseiji

shinseiji — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:04:46 +0000

“Saddam was a far greater killer than Milosovic” – exactly. The usual demonization propaganda ploy is in fact misplaced. Why should a ploy that is “correct” in the Kosovo case be suddenly “incorrect” in the far worse Iraq case?

The truth is that the Kosovo intervention was the pilot prototype for the Afghan and Iraq invasions, though this latter differs only in that it failed to fully drag in NATO in its wake. But the thrust remains the same: a new mode of interventionism in a desperate attempt to fill the post-Soviet power vacuum. The point is that it is all well beyond the means of the US and NATO to fill this vacuum. Not to mention the inevitable blowback.

As for the Taliban, I think one can declare the US attack on that regime an incredible piece of stupidity without doing Margolis’ take on it. If the point was to apprehend Al Queda, who knew best as to their whereabouts than the Taliban? Instead the US blew their best lead to smithereens. It is like while you are trying to get at the drug dealer kingpin through the street pusher, you blow away the street pusher. Lead gone!

But then that has been the whole problem with that should have been a criminal law enforcement issue: blown out of all proportion into a grandiose “GWOT” by various cliques and interests pursuing their own agendas.

By: Marina

Marina — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:52:24 +0000

Amazingly there are still people who believe there was genocide in Kosovo just like there were WMD in Iraq. Are we ever going to learn? We have the politicians we deserve.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:05:45 +0000

Hey Khan

Saddam was a far greater killer than Milosivich

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:22:46 +0000

“Instead of trying to overthrow Taliban, which will surely pave the way for a second Russian occupation of Afghanistan, the US and its allies should recognize Taliban as the legitimate Afghan government, and work with Kabul to curtail the opium trade, which is currently beyond anyone’s control in a nation that is starving and desperate.

The west may not like the fierce Taliban, but it is the legitimate government of Afghanistan and the only power holding that nation together. Taliban is also only force blocking Russia’s plans to restore its former rule in Central Asia, and to reoccupy strategic Afghanistan.
Posted by Eric Margolis on December 3, 2000 08:45 PM”

http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/2000/12/the_usrussian_c.php

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:15:39 +0000

Eric Margolis =Taliban apologist.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:48:48 +0000

British Prime Minister Tony Blair couldn’t have successfully lied Britain into war against Iraq if he hadn’t already profitably lied Britain into war against Serbia. The US would have found it difficult to go to war against Iraq without the support of Britain. Those who supported the Kosovo intervention have Iraqi blood on their hands as well.

By: Khan

Khan — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:35:33 +0000

Margolis was write about the need to stop the Serbian genocidal killers in Bosnia and Kosova. The interventions were too little too late. In the Middle East the US is not motivated by real humanitarian concerns but serving the interests of the Likudniks in AIPAC and their erstwhile Armageddon evangelical allies

By: DavorM

DavorM — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:52:07 +0000

I must say as a serbian canadian I am always puzzled by Margolis. He was the most fanatical war monger against Serbia which says something but wasn’t so against Iraq even though he was talking against Saddam as if he knew anything, in fact he is the only public person I know to be pro war against Serbia and sort of anti against Iraq .

His background is equally confusing , being sort of jewish and part albanian but he is opently anti israel which is very rare and champions groups like pashtun afghanis which is presumably because he hates russian people . He is no anti war that’s for sure but he maybe suffering from his own dogma and he at least realises it

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:59:16 +0000

Gratitude. Off of Check Your Head.