-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-06-18 21:52:00 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>But one question remains: Why bomb the shit out
>of a country and destroy it's infrastructure,
>when all you really need to do is imprison or
>kill one man - the crazy leader?
The same question could be asked about Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
In the Persian Gulf war, the US/UK had an opportunity to kill Saddam and his
palace guards, who were caught within our crosshairs, so to speak. Gen.
Schwarzkopf was ready to deliver the coup de grace and called his superiors
at the Pentagon to give the go-ahead. Colin Powell (CFR) on the orders of
George Bush (CFR/S&B/CIA) ordered Schwarzkopf to back off -- a POLITICAL
decision overruling MILITARY common sense (just as Gen. Patton, arriving in
Berlin BEFORE the Soviets in WWII, had been ordered to stop and allow Stalin
to bring Soviet troops in to occupy that city too.) So, ten years later, the
US is STILL blockading Iraq's OIL, destroying the country's infrastructure,
and periodically bombing the industry of Iraq, all allegedly in order to
"punish" ONE MAN.
But the REAL victims are the entire Iraqi people -- the first US "genocide"
in our time.
Why all this CIVILIAN carnage and national ruin? SUPPOSEDLY "to compel the
Iraqis themselves to overthrow Saddam," but it is by now already well
documented (see, e.g., citations in Chomsky's "Deterring Democracy") that the
US State Department and the NSC have consistently (before and since Desert
Storm) turned a deaf ear to any number of offers by pro-American anti-Saddam
elements WITHIN Iraq to oust Saddam, if given CIA backing and US support, and
for the same reasons (whatever they are) rejected all viable OUTSIDE
proposals to topple him. Explain to me the double standard here -- we insist
Saddam is a threat to world peace but act (by default) to MAINTAIN him in
power.
We can write off the entire significance of Iraq, and its hemmed-in "keeper"
Saddam, in one word: OIL, i.e., "the global market." But then, what about
Serbia and Milosevic?
Perhaps exactly the same. The Serbs are Communist holdovers,
ultra-nationalists, while the Albanians (including Kosovars and the
Western-armed, NATO-sponsored KLA) are by contrast already active
participants in the EU's "underground economy" (the heroin trade, armaments,
and "black ops" terrorism, a la the Mafia since WWII)
and welcome US/UK hegemony. If the Serbs ("Milosevic") control the Balkan
area and its vast untapped wealth (including OIL in the Adriatic), given its
strategic significance vis-a-vis Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean, it's
hard times for the NWO. But if the area is under the thumb of "Greater
Albania," the local "Mafia" will bargain with Big Oil.
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