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...mere existence of moral issues are not enough to always justify military intervention. Moral wrongs and human rights abuses exist all over the globe. The cost (such as a nuclear war) should at times deter us from intervening, even when the offenses are egregious (as in Joseph Stalin's murder of some 20 million Ukranians as the result of his collectivization plan). In this case, we judge the moral wrongs in Serbia to outweigh the cost of righting them...
...unsettling to think that conscienceless tribal ferocity may catch on around the world. Rape, of course, has been an apparently inevitable part of war since men first threw rocks at each other -- or anyway since Rome was founded upon the rape of the Sabines. Joseph Stalin expressed a prevailing (male victor's) view of rape in war. When Yugoslav Milovan Djilas complained about the rapes that Russians had committed in Yugoslavia, Stalin replied, "Can't you understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes...
Taranovsky wrote extensively. One of his better known books is Essays on Mandelstam, about the poet Osip Mandelstam, whose works were banned by Stalin and who died in a Siberian concentration camp...
...that nine more of the deportees had been scheduled for release from Israeli prisons or had had their sentences shortened, and were deported on the eve of their release as a sort of extension of their sentences. The latter cases show an inhumane and frustrating policy, seemingly borrowed from Stalin's reign of terror, of asserting power by releasing prisoners only to jail them again or, in this case, deporting them. And the former cases are terrifyingly arbitrary, and reveal a bungling of justice that has been all too common in the Israeli occupation...
...third sequence, "A monument in Utopia," draws a parallel between the death of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam at the hands of Stalin and the death of poetry itself in a cynical society. Primarily concerned with images of death and destruction, the third sequence also holds out a ray of hope for resurrection, a rebirth of faith and idealism. By the end of the third sequence, Schnackenberg encapsulates the whole pageant of human history in a few line...