EJ and Genocide

["Bertil Häggman" <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

>I can't speak for EJ (what he thinks of genocide can be seen in 
>"Strahlungen") but I guess he'd find it as horrible as I do. 

Olaf,

Maybe I expressed myself in unclear terms. What I meant
was what your idea on the possible reaction of EJ
if he was alive would have been in regard to ethnic
cleansing? I am aware of his
views from _Strahlungen_ and of course from _Auf den
Marmorklippen_.  There are in my opinion clear
relations between the devastation of the Marina and
and the devastation in Kosova. Milosevic seem to be 
very much like the Oberfoerster (and we all know who that was).

What worries me a little is that you do not mention
the deportation by the thugs of Milosevic from Kosova
of the ethnic Albanians until after being reminded. 
But opinion polls in many European countries show
a support for Operation Allied Force: Swedes over
50 percent and Norwegians even 61 percent. 

EJ was today on a full page in one of Sweden's largest
evening newspapers, "Expressen" (Stockholm), attacked by a known
adversary and critic of his person and writings. Typically
the attack focused mainly on Juenger's nationalist writings
in the 1920s and _The Worker_.  While nothing of his
post WWII writings was mentioned.

I am in great debt to Mark for quoting from _Siebzig Verweht V_
(see text underneath). We all think that Milosevic should have
been stopped earlier, like other brown and red dictators,
but he could not just be allowed to continue the slaughter of
innocents.

>Wilflingen, 27.2.1993
>Die Balkanhaendel nehmen kein Ende; sie koennten sich ausweiten.  Kaeme es
>dann zum Beginn des Dritten Weltkrieges-oder werden kuenftige Historiker
>die Zeit von 1914 bis zur Konsolidierung des Weltstaates in einem
>epochalen Zusammenhang sehen, mit Kriegen und Revolutionen als den
>Erschuetterungen eines perennierenden Erdbebens?
>Merkwuerdig ist die Zurueckhaltung der Grosstaaten.  Sie beruht wohl auf
>der Sorge vor dem Funken ins Pulverfass.  Dabei ist es ein Glueck, dass
>der Kalte Krieg zwischen Russland und Amerika der Geschichte angehoert;
>so wird die Parteinahme parzeliert.
>Trotzdem bleibt es befremdend, dass mit dem ungeheueren Material, das zur
>Verfuegung steht, dem Mord nicht Einhalt geboten werden kann."

See especially from the 1993 quote the words that the murder was allowed
to continue in spite of the great resources available to stop etnic cleansing.
Now, when these resources are used to stop him, I think EJ would have
agreed it was necessary.

My apologies to JK for maybe inciting new
angry comments on this issuebut I think it is important to try to
analyse the texts of EJ, that are relevant to THE burning
issue at hand at present. As listmembers know I am especially
prone to study the prognoses and late comments on world
affairs of Ernst Juenger. I guess one must pay a price for that.

With Juengerian greetings

Bertil