Sunday, February 04, 2007
NICK COHEN - GUARDIAN COLUMNIST
Said aprops of nothing much
Like Stalin, Pol Pot and Slobodan Milosevic, they went for the professors and technicians who could make a democratic Iraq workWhich got a mention on Neil Clark's blog So I sent
If like me, you are curious as to which 'professors and technicians' Slobodan Milosevic 'went for', Cohen can be contacted at nick@nickcohen.net.He replied
Indeed I am. Clearly nobody with the most minute shred of personal integrity, & indeed who was not an out & out obscene Nazi trying to justify genocide, ethnic cleansing & child sex slavey would make such a remark without having some evidence to back it up.
Dear Neil,& I said
It's in chapter 5 if you've got the book taken from Roy Gutman's account
of the decaptiation of Mulsim civil society in Prejidor -- going for the
judges, teachers etc The Hague hearings backed him up.
All the best,Nick
A ) Prejodor is in Republika Srpska not Serbia& he
B ) Gutman has been proven a liar, not having been to the sites such as Omarska where he said he saw atrocities.
So where is your real evidence?
Bye nowSo take of that as you will. Perhaps i annoyed him with my reference to obscene Nazis but, since Gutman has acknowledged that he never saw atrocities he said he saw, not having visited Republika Srpska at the time he wrote of seeing atrocities there I submit that his testimony is worthless. If so has Cohen any actual evidence or was my initial assessment spot on? There is no 3rd choice.
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There is a difference between having no evidence and being taken in by false evidence. If it was false: if someone recounts an untruth, it doesn't necessarily mean that everything he says is untrue.
The more I read about the destruction of Yugoslavia, the more I feel that I was right all along. It was no business of the British government and we should have steered well clear of it.
I am quite certain that, without our intervention both Croatia & Bosnia could have had their independence on ethnic lines (there was no problem with Macedonia & no problem of principle with Slovenia). However I am pretty sure there would have been no majority in Bosnia, or even in the Moslem majority areas, for such a truncated separation, & possibly not on the Dalmation coast or even Croatia as a whole.
May I invite you to give us a brief summary of your views on the MOTIVES of the Western actors in this drama, separating what you know from what you have to guess at?
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