Yugoslavia As Seen From Paris
The vehement messages from WAISers about "Clinton's war" are like the meeting of extreme viewpoints in Paris, whence David Pike reports:
May Day 1999 was special, because the French far left and the French far right were saying the same thing for the first time since the Hitler-Stalin Great Patriotic Honeymoon. Since the far right is now split in two, each had its parade on the rue de Rivoli, with Serbs in each procession, not to be confused with the Serbs in the communist parade at the Bastille. The fascination that "heroic Serbia" holds for Le Pen requires a whole article. Communist leader Robert Hue for his part attacks the "antiliberal" position of Clinton, at odds with the "liberal" position of Milosevic.
The indictment of Milosevic has made things even clearer. Chirac responded with a new public address on Kosovo (the fifth in the series), in which he twice, and with heavy deliberation, referred to Milosovic without a Mr. This could be unprecedented in French diplomacy between heads of state. Jean-Pierre Chevenement, the Minister of the