Outsiders who enjoy the vicarious self-righteousness of proclaiming one side to be angels and the other to be devils bear a heavy responsibility for fanning and perpetuating ethnic hatred. I hoped that this might alert some outsiders to the fact that in such conflicts as have torn apart Yugoslavia, things are not always as they seem at first glance. Especially when outside powers show readiness to intervene, quite imaginative means can be employed to gain their sympathy and support. The blacks of South Africa never called on NATO to achieve their liberation, nor has any other authentic social liberation movement. The United States and NATO are to blame for encouraging this foreseeably disastrous strategy which has brought such suffering on the people of Kosovo.
Blame is less important than understanding.
Today, championing one national group against another is too often mistaken for morality and vengeful condemnation for justice. The authors, T. Christian Miller and Ann M. Simmons, suggest that the much worse conditions in African camps are related in part to racial prejudice, as well as to the cultural affinity of donors to European refugees. The article is filled with disturbing details, I recommend it to all of you. Let's carry it one step further. So-called market economies are not market economies at all.