Guardian editorial, Tuesday 23 March 1999 (via):
“The only honorable course for Europe and America is to use military force to try to protect the people of Kosovo... If we do not act at all, or if there is a limited bombing campaign which still fails to change Milosevic’s mind, what is likely to be Kosovo’s future?”
Guardian editorial, Tuesday 13 January 2009:
“... the talk elsewhere is now of boycotts, of arms embargos, of revoking trade agreements, withholding financial support and cancelling export credit guarantees. These are not all appealing options, nor should they be yet necessary.”
So what, pray, would it take for the country’s leading left-wing paper to back even the revocation of active support for Israel on the part of Britain? And given the paper’s prediction that a continued campaign on the part of Milosevic against the Kosovo Liberation Army “might be done quite quickly and the casualties would not necessarily be huge” - do they dare say the same of Gaza? - why does one case demand active, military intervention, while the other demands little more than strong words and a tap on the wrist? (You may want to direct this question towards this gentleman, or this lady.)
