SOURCE: The New American, August 2, 1999, page 7
http://www.thenewamerican.com/
Kosovo War's Carnegie Roots
Since before World War I, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has
excelled at the use of war to transform American society and pursue
collectivist ends.
John B. Roberts II, a writer, television producer, and publicist, reveals in
a fascinating report from the June 'American Spectator' that NATO's
terrorist war against Yugoslavia has its roots in a 1992 Carnegie Endowment
initiative.
Roberts is well qualified to draw this conclusion, given that he had been
hired to help publicize the Endowment's effort -- and has since come to
regret his involvement.
Milton Abramowitz, president of the Carnegie Endowment between 1991 and
1997, "established a blue-ribbon commission of policy experts to create a
new U.S. foreign policy framework," recalls Roberts.
The release of that commission's first report was timed to coincide with the
1992 Democratic National Convention, and the commissions consisted
essentially of "Clinton's Cabinet-in-waiting": Madeleine Albright, Henry
Cisneros, John Duetch, Richard Holbrooke,
Alice Rivlin, David Gergen, Admiral William Crowe, and "numerous lesser
luminaries who would nonetheless get sub-Cabinet appointments...."
For "bipartisan balance," Richard Perle and James Schlesinger were brought
on board.
In brief, it was a Carnegie/CFR exercise in creating a "consensus" on behalf
of a radical new foreign policy.
Roberts writes that the report, 'Changing Our Ways: America's role in the
New World', urged "a new principle of international relations: the
destruction or displacement of groups of people who in states can justify
international intervention."
Through this document, "the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was
girding for war.
All it needed was a president eager to do battle" -- and a foreign "crisis"
that would inaugurate the new doctrine.
By lucky hap, Albanian President Sali Berisha was visiting with Bujar
Bukoshi in Kosovo just as the report was being framed back in Washington.
Berisha told Bukoshi, "We must demand the right for self-determination of
the Albanians in ex-Yugoslavia."
"After six years as the Carnegie Endowment's president, Abramowitz in 1997
moved on to the Council on Foreign Relations," recalls Roberts.
"In January of this year he published a column in the 'Wall Street Journal'
urging a drastic shift in U.S. policy toward Kosovo. It was time,
Abramowitz counseled, to support full independence for Kosovo."
Shortly thereafter came the Racak "massacre," the Rambouillet ultimatum, and
NATO's war of aggression in Yugoslavia.
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