Abstract

Beat the Devil

It has been witnessed, over the past three months, one of the most astonishing displays of high-minded warmongering. And the recent clamor for dropping high explosives on the Serbs was but an increase on previous shouts for precision strikes by the laptop bombardiers. For more than a year each new twist in the terrible saga of Bosnia has brought its belligerent spasm from an extraordinary coalition, stretching, in the U.S., in editorials of virtually every newspaper of the country. Calls to arm the Bosnian Muslims have come from the Democratic Socialists of America. The only way to save the United Nations peacekeeping role and, more important, the lives of Bosnians, is to have a larger peacekeeping force, with Russian troops matching the Western contingent and no corresponding influx of Americans. For any Serb the NATO forces are now irrevocably aligned with the Croatian-Muslim confederation.