What is Ethnic Cleansing, Really?
Ignorance is bliss, especially in historical context. This is why so many Americans seem so extraordinarily moved by the “ethnic cleansing” that is taking place in Kosovo. The killings of Albanians are outrageous, to be sure. But people are allowing themselves to be whipped into some kind of air-strike-justifying frenzy because they are moved by poignant pictures of bruised and bloodied children who have been affected by the monster Milsoevic and his terrorism.