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Memo on the Margin
November 16, 2000
Albright’s Unnecessary War
Memo To: UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke
From: Peter Signorelli
Re: Madeleine Albright’s Disastrous War
As the U.S. diplomat who came closest to securing a non-military option
for dealing with Serbia and the Kosovar Albanians, you may feel vindicated
by the results of the recent municipal elections in Kosovo. In a sense,
the province has come full circle, expressing overwhelming support for
the party of Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, the Albania leader who supported a
peaceful negotiation with Serbia and who opposed NATO’s military
option. It also turns out that former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff Colin Powell was absolutely correct in his advice that the U.S.
refrain from military action against Yugoslavia. And George Bush is
correct in his perspective of disengaging the U.S. military from the
Balkans. Both have been vindicated by the results of Kosovo-wide municipal
elections held at the end of last month. That election result, in which
out of 25 Albanian political parties fielding candidates the Democratic
League of Kosova of Rugova took approximately 60% of the Albanian
Kosovars’
vote, is poignant testimony that U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright’s
disastrous war against Serbia was unnecessary.
Dr. Rugova, as you know, for ten years led Kosovo's non-violent resistance
to Serbia’s abrogation of its autonomy and still is considered
by many Kosovo Albanians as their symbolic President. In years since
his unofficial election as "president" (not recognized by
Serbia), Rugova created a parallel, illegal state for the Albanians
with its own education and health care system and taxation. He always
has supported independence as a goal, but always preferring the option
of negotiated, non-military approaches with Serbia. We here at
Polyconomics
strongly urged the Clinton administration to lend its support to Rugova,
as he not only was the single-most trusted Kosovar Albanian leader,
but also was the only Albanian leader seeking non-military options for
the resolution of the dire situation of Albanians under Serbia. Rugova’s
perspective, however, collided with the U.S. Secretary of State’s
agenda to bomb Serbia into compliance with her agenda. When Rugova opposed
arming the paramilitary Kosova Liberation Army, disputed NATO’s war option
and faulted the conditions being imposed by the U.S. at the
Rambouilett negotiations, Albright eased him out, and KLA leader Hashim
Thaci was elevated as the Kosovar Albanian authority. Sec. Albright
simply would not be deterred from her war and a widespread media campaign
in the West was conducted to diminish Rugova’s authority and appeal,
portraying him as a traitor to the Albanians for insisting that a
negotiated,
non-violent solution to the Kosovo crisis still was possible and
preferable.
Thaci and the KLA were "unknown figures, raising money illegally
through smuggling, or worse," as the State Department’s James
Rubin revealed, yet Albright ordered him to work with Thaci, even though
the KLA was breaking the October cease-fire. As Rubin put it recently,
"The entire US strategy to pressure [Slobodan] Milosevic [was]
now dependent on this mysterious rebel." Although the Serbs had been
saying for weeks that they would accept lightly-armed UN personnel
rather than NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo, Albright shot down any attempt
to pursue that route. Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini recently
reported that Albright was adamant, cutting off his attempts to pursue
that option with a curt "Lamberto....The whole point is for the Serbs to
accept a NATO [military occupation] force."
So what did Albright’s war accomplish? Destruction of Serbia’s
infrastructure, disruption of trade relations among Danube River-bordered
Balkan countries, mass population dispersals, perhaps more deaths of
Albanian Kosovars by NATO’s bombings than by Serb paramilitary
forces, the legitimization and arming of an Albanian insurgent force
throughout the province, and not much else. The province is back where
it was prior to Albright’s war, with Rugova’s perspective
for peaceful negotiations with Serbia still the dominant sentiment among
the population.
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