Re: Kosova

On Wed, 12 May 1999 kjkhoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I'm just a lurker ignoramus shooting off his mouth -- but surely,
> given that this is the foucault list, the issue isn't about
> addressing every situation at once or none at all, but why some are
> addressed and others not? Who chooses who to address, or to bomb, or
> not at all

Who to airlift, and to where--as Liisa Malkki has pointed out, during the
Rwanda genocide, there was more talk about airlifting gorillas than people
out of the region. I see that the Americans have relented and are no
longer going to put Kosovar refugees up in Guantanamo Bay, and rather will
run the risk of infecting the mainland with foreign bodies.

> just as when Chinese students demonstrate in China
> against US-Nato, the media casts it as orchestrated, etc.

A group of Chinese-Canadians held a demonstration in Ottawa yesterday ...

> By the way, US-England did some bombing in Iraq again today, in case
> no one noticed.

Yes, this is very strange indeed. Three days of CNN, we're told it's
over, and it keeps going on and on.

Matthew

---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
dear readers, my apologies.
I'm drifting in and out of sleep.
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