"An analogy to America's own bitter war of secession can illustrate what
NATO is trying to compel Serbia to do. It is as if the nineteenth-century
concert of Europe had forced President Lincoln to accept Southern
independence and European troops on American soil to police the
agreement, and had threatened to intervene militarily in support of the
Confederate Army if Lincoln refused. After all, the unprecedentedly
murderous American Civil War appalled Europeans just as much as the
Kosovo conflict does US leaders today. And just as Europeans believed
that North American "stability" (and access to Southern cotton) was vital
to their prosperity, so US policy-makers today are convinced that
European stability is essential to the United States' economic
well-being. (Of course, the social systems defended in Kosovo and the
American South aren't parallel.)"

http://www.thenation.com/1999/990419.shtml


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