Balkanizing the World
What Empire
Wants
If there were any hopes in
the past few weeks, what with the rising tide of antiwar sentiment, that the
Empire might turn back from the brink of invading Iraq, the Emperor’s annual
speech should have dispelled them. Within a few short weeks, before the
weather window closes, there will be war.
Baghdad
via Belgrade
Before attacking Yugoslavia
in the spring of 1999, the Empire bothered to create a pretext. First its
diplomatic observers – actually intelligence agents – helped a terrorist group
stage a "massacre,"
then its top diplomat proposed a "peace
plan" that was in fact a naked land grab in the language of unconditional
surrender. When the Belgrade government understandably refused, U.S. and its
satellites unleashed Hell. But because it lacked any justification for the
attack, the Imperial Alliance made wild allegations of "genocide" and
"humanitarian disaster." The ongoing farce in the Hague
Inquisition is an embarrassing reminder of the lengths to which they have gone
to transform these lies into Official Truth.
Now the same
pattern is used on the eve of war against Iraq, only some portions are no longer
necessary. The pretext, for example, which was to be fabricated by the weapons
inspectors, has failed to materialize. Wild allegations are flying again,
though, and there has even been a threat
of charging Iraqis with "war crimes," such as resisting Imperial
invasion.
Hopes of the UN
somehow stopping the war are also baseless. Any moral authority they might have
had was purposefully demolished in Bosnia, and died when the first bombs hit
Belgrade and NATO got away with the international-law equivalent of premeditated murder. After
what happened in the ruins of Yugoslavia, with the entire world watching, the
Empire now feels it can get away with anything, anywhere, anytime. Its leaders
have said as much.
Up to
Their Old Tricks
While the general public in
Imperial-dominated countries may have already forgotten 1999, both those running
the Empire and their intended victims have not. When the implausible proposal of
exile
for the Iraqi leader was floated ten days ago, Saddam Hussein must have thought
of Slobodan Milosevic. His constant appeasement of U.S. demands, from Dayton to
Kumanovo, only brought more demands and new sanctions, which did not stop even
after he was taken to the Hague Inquisition in chains. Clearly, in Milosevic’s
case, trusting the Empire proved his undoing. Unlike the Serbian people, Hussein
seems to have realized that. What good that will do him, if any, remains to be
seen.
The
'Serbian Model'
If extracting parallels from
the Yugoslav experience seems a bit far-fetched, how about this Monday’s
Christian Science Monitor, which in a series of
articles openly discusses upcoming "regime change" in Baghdad in light of
previous such actions, specifically devoting a major portion to
Yugoslavia?
Apparently, Iraq
should end up with a similar result as the 2000 "October Revolution" in
Belgrade, if through different, more violent means. Reading the interviews with
pro-Imperial sycophants and foot-soldiers of the October coup, it becomes
obvious the Empire saw nothing wrong with corrupting a country’s political
process and literally buying a government it desired. After all, they’ve funded the
terrorist KLA, then claimed it fought for "American values"…
So it is we learn
of a "a three-year [sic!] campaign by the US and other Western governments to
dislodge the Yugoslav leader by strangling his country’s economy with sanctions
and rocking it with bombs," an admission of international crime if there ever
was any. Iraq suffered three times as long, though.
Also noted is the
role of "non-governmental" organizations, such as George Soros’s Open Society
and various "human rights" groups, which were basically fronts for direct action
against their host country.
The Monitor
also mentions in passing the following facts, which have been known for years
yet assiduously ignored by the mainstream media. Upon reading them, it is not
hard to see why:
- "opposition
parties ran all the country’s major towns and cities after municipal elections
in December 1996."
- "Milosevic
never resorted to dictatorial repression of his political opponents at
home."
- "former members
of the fractious 18 party ‘Democratic Opposition of Serbia’ (DOS) [say] US
diplomats knocked their heads together until they formed a cohesive and united
coalition."
- "western money
funded the development of Otpor."
Otpor
("Resistance") was ostensibly a student movement advocating the overthrow of
government – but only the Milosevic government. It was organized and paid
by the Empire to do a job. The Monitor quotes one Otpor
leader:
"Eighty-five
percent of our funding came from the United States," through bodies such as the
National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute and the
National Democratic Institute, as well as USAID.
The article ends
with Zarko Korac, now information minister in Zoran Djindjic’s quisling
government, claiming that what brought Milosevic down was a "death by a thousand
cuts."
Well, there’s a
cheerful picture: "democracy" as a product of political and military action
based on ancient Chinese torture. Truth can come from the mouths of morons! But
overall, it is a chilling admission of how the Empire is determined to have its
way, and – perhaps more disturbingly – how so many are prepared to help
it.
Caracas
Copycats
But before the people of
Iraq can dance with joy at the prospect of a Zoran Djindjic of their very own,
it needs to be made clear that the rest of the world can look forward to such
wonders as well. Just last week, Washington’s patsies in Caracas have tried to
copy the Serbian Model, asking
foreign assistance to force early elections and topple President Hugo
Chavez.
Chavez is by no
means a paragon of virtue, and his socialist economic theories leave a lot to be
desired, but while this describes most world leaders, he differs by refusing to
be America’s busboy. And because Venezuela supplies over 10% of U.S. oil
imports, his defiance is more than irksome to the Court of St.
Abraham.
Battle
Hymn of the Empire
This founder of Imperial
Presidency sheds much light on the belligerence of today’s Washington.
Modern-day worshippers
of a president who shredded the very real Constitution to save the very abstract
"Union" have gone much further than the man who endorsed total war
against his own people. Lincoln only claimed total dominion over the United
States of America; they claim dominion over the entire world. Somehow, at some
point, America was anointed with World Leadership, they say, and any and all who
resist it are "in rebellion" against legitimate authority. Thus, there is no
need for justification of further invasions, as they represent legitimate
suppression of rebellions by the legitimate overlords of the World.
Towards a
New Liberty
Whosoever accepts this
theory should know that its end result will be like the ruins of Yugoslavia: a
foul, wretched place, filled with tyranny, chaos and despair. If this is the
choice they are prepared to live with, so be it. They have been fairly
forewarned. The rest, one suspects, would rather be free.
Well, it’s high
time we be about it.
–
Nebojsa Malic
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