it's a fucking miracle. nato has launched air strikes against serb forces in yugoslavia. after sitting on their hands for 6 months since authorizing air strikes, action has finally been taken against the murderous serbs.
  and of course, who but the americans could use this situation as an opportunity to climb onto some moral high ground and make general 'hurray for us' declarations? andy rooney, of 60 minutes delivered a heart warming editorial piece this past sunday. using references to america's WW II policy, he did his best to fill his 6 minutes with self congratulatory, all-hail-america-the-brave rhetoric.
  rooney's point? "we have the moral authority.." as the self righteous US of A to do something about the situation in yugoslavia. where the hell was that moral authority 6 months ago when not offending incompetent, at-the-end-of-his-rope russian president boris yeltsin was seen as a greater priority than stopping genocide?
  what irked me so much was his whole tone of america being able to help all the poor, weak gypsies of the world who can't do anything for themselves. perhaps it should have occured to him that it was nato, in fact, who got the ball rolling, and that america joined the fray despite opposition in congress. it seems that a large part of america only cares about america. except where foreign markets are at stake, in which case let's hear it for the MAI.
-chris {3.30.99}