Their atrocities--and ours.

• Position: Distilled Zinn - Thomas Friedman on Serbs war guilt - Brief article

July 1999

To Thomas Friedman, columnist for The New York Times , all Serbs must be punished, without mercy, because they have "tacitly sanctioned" the deeds of their leaders. That is a novel definition of war guilt. Can we now expect an Iraqi journalist to call for bombs placed in every American supermarket on the grounds that all of us have "tacitly sanctioned" the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq caused by our eight-year embargo? I suppose...