To: Bill who wrote (41882 ) 4/9/1999 11:32:00 PM From: Daniel Schuh Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 67261
The crapmeister rides again, I see. Kosevo isn't the first refugee crisis, and it won't be the last. One might think of the traditional sale of the Kurds down the river after the Gulf war, where the people who "rose up against Saddam" weren't quite the people that Bush had in mind when he made that exhortation. But there are somewhat more egregious examples from the Reagan-Bush years, where the victims could only wish they had the chance to become refugees. I imagine many of the inhabitants of Afghanistan today wish they had that chance. They're in better shape that some others, though. There's a couple hundred thousand Central Americans no longer among the living, due to our support of certain virtuous "authoritarians" in that region. The CIA had some good methods for dealing with uppity minorities, and it was more than happy to share that knowledge in Guatemala. Of course, when a few victims trickled into the U.S. and asked for political asylum, the Reaganauts had a ready answer. They were "economic" refugees, not political refugees. The hundreds of thousands dead in Guatemala are no doubt economically dead, too. But that's different, right, Billy Boy? When you've devoted your hateful life to all Clinton hatred, all the time, then either the Central America stories are all propaganda, or it's all Clinton's fault anyway. Something to do with the Mena airport, I hear. Clinton's the antichrist, and Reagan, not quite present in his own administration, is a saint. That's a non-partisan, professional historical judgement, ordained early and often here by the brilliant local observers of the political scene.