-Caveat Lector- : Subject: Balkania: Perspectives : Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 5:10 PM : : From http://www.accuracy.org/ : : <<Perspectives on the Balkan situation. Sorry about the duplicated : resource -- integrity of the source was the primary consideration. A<>E<>R : >> : : March 31, 1999 : : ANALYSTS SCRUTINIZE NATO BOMBING : : � ROBERT HAYDEN, www.post-gazette.com/forum/19990328edhayden8.asp : Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the : University of Pittsburgh, Hayden has been deeply involved in attempts to : mediate the crisis in Kosovo, bringing together political leaders from all : sides and regularly visiting the region. One of the Albanian party leaders : he worked with was reported by NATO to have been executed by Serbian : forces. Hayden said today: "This mission, supposedly designed to prevent a : massive humanitarian catastrophe, has instead produced it. We have now : shown that NATO is 'credible' for doing something incredibly irresponsible. : Apparently 'winning it' means destroying the Balkans to save NATO for its : upcoming 50th birthday.... Having provoked the catastrophe with bombing, : NATO's 'remedy' is more bombing. The army headquarters in central Belgrade : that NATO is considering targeting is surrounded by apartment buildings. : Civilian casualties here could not be considered 'collateral damage,' : particularly since the 'command and control' functions are no longer being : carried out from those headquarters." : : � JACQUELINE CABASSO, [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.napf.org/abolition2000 : Executive director of the Western States Legal Foundation, Cabasso said: : "The situation in Kosovo is ominous with respect to prospects for nuclear : disarmament. The U.S.-led NATO bombing is opposed by Russia, China, India : and Indonesia; three are nuclear powers, making up almost half the world's : population. There are reports that India is considering a possible alliance : with China and Russia in response. Russia has terminated its Y2K compliance : program with the U.S., and Ukraine is reportedly contemplating reversal of : its non-nuclear status. This first NATO military action since its recent : expansion up to Russia's border comes on the eve of NATO's 50th anniversary : summit in Washington. Centrally provocative to Russia is that NATO acts : under the U.S. 'nuclear umbrella' including threatened first use of nuclear : weapons. There's also the recent Senate vote to go forward with national : missile defense, which threatens to abrogate the ABM treaty. All of these : developments have made the Russians resistant to ratifying the START II : arms reduction treaty. In addition, the U.S. has committed $60 billion to : rebuild its nuclear weapons research, development and production : infrastructure, and the Secretary of Energy has announced that production : of tritium -- radioactive hydrogen used to boost the destructive power of : atomic bombs -- will be resumed. We seem to be heading straight backwards : into the Cold War." : : � JULIANNE SMITH, [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.basicint.org : An expert on NATO, Smith is a senior analyst at the European Security desk : at BASIC (British American Security Information Council). Smith said: : "Bombing is not a preventive tool, it is a consequence of not having any : preventive tools. It's clear that the NATO bombings are not saving lives, : instead they are contributing to the escalation of the conflict." : : : : : : March 29, 1999 : : NEW SOURCES ON BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA : : � ROBERT HAYDEN, www.post-gazette.com/forum/19990328edhayden8.asp : Director of Russian and East European Studies at the University of : Pittsburgh, Hayden has been deeply involved in attempts to mediate the : crisis in Kosovo, bringing together political leaders from all sides and : regularly visiting the region. One of the Albanian party leaders he worked : with was just reportedly executed by Serbian forces. "The Clinton : administration began this bombing with no plan for what comes after," : Hayden said Monday afternoon. "Everything that is happening was predictable : and was in fact predicted -- the increased fighting, the humanitarian : situation and the Serbs' rallying around Milosevic." Hayden, who is author : of the forthcoming "Blueprints for a House Divided: The Constitutional : Logic of the Yugoslav Conflicts," said that "the extraordinary callousness : of this administration in launching the first attack on a sovereign state : in Europe since World War II and its attempt to ground this war in morality : are sickening. Albania is being destabilized, Macedonia is being : destabilized. When you say our credibility is at stake and so we have to : bomb, you avoid the question as to whether we should have made such threats : in the first place. The administration seems intent on making matters worse : still, even as they espouse morality." : : � BARBARA EHRENREICH, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Ehrenreich -- author of "Blood Rites," a widely praised book about origins : of war -- said today that "so far the NATO bombing of Serbia has : accomplished two things: One, it has led to stepped up ethnic cleansing by : the Serb forces in Kosovo. Two, it has eliminated all opposition within : Serbia and consolidated the power of Slobodan Milosevic. When are we going : to learn that bombing only serves to rally the target population against : the aggressors? Hitler's bombing of London didn't unseat Winston Churchill; : the U.S.'s repeated bombings of Iraq in no way diminished Saddam Hussein's : power; and the current bombing seems almost deliberately designed to : strengthen the most genocidal forces in Serbia." : : � ALISTAIR MILLAR, [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.fourthfreedom.org : Program director of the Fourth Freedom Forum, an independent research : organization that works on international peace and security issues, Millar : said: "The United States and its allies should work with Russia to propose : an immediate cease-fire -- on the ground and in the air -- and a new : diplomatic initiative.... The keys to a new diplomatic effort are greater : Russian involvement and a persuasive package of inducements and sanctions. : Russia has historic and strategic interests in the Balkans and could play a : constructive role, as it did in Bosnia, in achieving a settlement. The : proper body to manage a renewed diplomatic initiative is not NATO, which is : operating in Yugoslavia beyond its jurisdiction, but the Organization for : Security and Cooperation in Europe. The OSCE includes almost every country : in Europe and was designed for precisely this kind of diplomatic : bridge-building between parties in conflict." : : Also, see www.commondreams.org/kosovo/kosovo.htm : : For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: Sam : Husseini, (202) 347-0020; Loren Sears, (541) 484-9167 : ~~~~~~~~~~~~ : A<>E<>R : : The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking : new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust : + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + : Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved : the absolute rejection of authority. -Thomas Huxley : + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + : Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed : + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + : In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material : is distributed without charge or profit to those who have : expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information : for non-profit research and educational purposes only. 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