> Yoshie >>wrote:
> ***** New York Times 28 February 2001
>
> U.S. and NATO Back Serbian Access to Kosovo Buffer Zone
>
> By JANE PERLEZ
>
> BRUSSELS, Feb. 27 - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said today
> that the United States was prepared to allow Serbian soldiers back
> into a three-mile-wide buffer zone along the Kosovo border, where
> Albanian militants have been increasingly active.
>
> What do Jared & others on the CrashList think of this development?
>
> Yoshie >>
Hi, Yoshie. Yeah, I saw that too. I think NATO is playing a many-faceted
game and as with all such games, which involve real thrusts and pretended
thrusts to disguise the real ones and to produce specific effects in groups
they are trying to undermine, the key is to get the big picture and ask:
what are they after? This is like the problem with card tricks. The
magician has some simple method of knowing the card, but he goes through very
complex maneuvers which he wishes you to believe are decisive, so you don't
notice that he palmed the thing and looked at the bottom of the deck.
So: what are they after? They are after the destruction of the cement of
Balkans unity, which is the Serbian people. This cannot be done without the
physical destruction, that is murder, of about a million people. Remember
Indonesia.
Right now, there are many small struggles and some not so small going on all
over Serbia. But they are not yet fully linked and the people are not yet in
the state of mind to see the political character of their oppression - they
see: no electricity, layoffs, theft of businesses they in essence owned, and
so on. Whatever. But not fully the connection with the Kosthunitsa
government.
The formerly part-bureaucratic part-real Socialist Party has had the bad/good
fortune of shedding some dead weight. NATO maintains a deception in my
opinion through the use of Koshtunitsa who talks from both sides of mouth
(the speculations over his "honesty" not withstanding) but there is
increasing clarity. NATO wishes to destroy the Serbs but wishes to avoid a
straight-out confrontation with the formidable Yugoslav Army. The army is
politically torn. NATO wishes to finesse the situation, breaking the army as
an effective force before engaging it - if ever.
Thus NATO a) verbally denounces the KLA b) trains and arms and provides air
cover for the KLA c) orders (through its stooges, the present regime)
Yugoslav security forces not to fire their weapons except in extreme
circumstances d) promises and promises and promises to stop the KLA which
meanwhile has literally set up customs booths on roads from inner Serbia to
Kosovo! Do you see? They are stalling for time while they consolidate the
KLA's provocative abilities and attempt to demoralize the army in
preparation for replacing as much of the Yugo loyalist officers as possible -
all at the same time. Meanwhile AT THE SAME TIME, the French whose struggle
against the Anglo-US gang seems able to rise only to the level of gossip,
have leaked the story that NATO will use the KLA presence in Precevo Valley
as an excuse to send in NATO troops. So they promise pie in the sky ("we
will let you into the buffer zone, etc. etc.) while in fact, they plan
invasion.
The KLA forces are not rebellious Albanians, they are a mercenary division of
the U.S. marines or special forces which the BBC admits trains them. They are
incapable of defeating the Yugoslavs without immense help from NATO, hence
the complex shell game as the KLA becomes further entrenched, terrorizing all
ethnic groups increasingly further into inner Serbia, and the future fight of
the Yugoslav army becomes tactically more and more difference while NATO
attempts to demoralize it internally.
jared
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