Abu Juwairiya
Junior Member
"During NATO’s Kosovo war in the spring of 1999, Jamie Shea, the spokesman for the alliance, bragged that NATO, by releasing showers of tiny aluminium strips on power plants, could switch the electricity supply of Serbia on and off at will.
This is an extreme example of how the might of the West was used in this conflict not just as blind destruction but, in a way that was itself awe-inspiring, by playing with the electricity switch and showing ‘restraint’ as a means of demonstrating a far greater power—which was yet, simultaneously, ‘civilisation’.
Of course, the so-called collateral damage, such as the cluster-bombing of civilian columns or the attacks on the Belgrade TV studios, was not able to convey this aesthetic joy to the same degree." (Source: "Global Rivalries from the Cold War to Iraq" By Kees Van Der Pijl, P 402, 2006)
This is an extreme example of how the might of the West was used in this conflict not just as blind destruction but, in a way that was itself awe-inspiring, by playing with the electricity switch and showing ‘restraint’ as a means of demonstrating a far greater power—which was yet, simultaneously, ‘civilisation’.
Of course, the so-called collateral damage, such as the cluster-bombing of civilian columns or the attacks on the Belgrade TV studios, was not able to convey this aesthetic joy to the same degree." (Source: "Global Rivalries from the Cold War to Iraq" By Kees Van Der Pijl, P 402, 2006)