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contemplates the ease and abandon with which human beings brutalize
one another under the guidance of a mendacious group of leaders who
managed to stay in power; there is new evidence of how easily tribalis–
tic nationalism becomes murderous. Among those witnessing the con–
flict, many intellectuals both at home and abroad fell prey to notions of
moral equivalence. Their attitudes seemed to have been influenced by
old, irrelevant images of who their "real" enemies are: technology, cap–
italism, modernity, th e West, the United States, NATO-whoever was
designated as the "top dog," the authentic victimizer. On the other
hand, this time more Western intellectuals-including many who in the
past reflexively blamed the U.S. first-recognized that even the United
States can try to do the right thing, and that the power of the Western
world, as organized in ATO, could and should be used for a good
cause.
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