Dragan,
American foreign
policy, regardless of what happens in the election today here in the
USA, will remain in the hands
of the President of the United States. That is George
W. Bush for the next two years. I personally do not believe that the U.S.
Congress will change hands in todays elections. And, it DOES make a
difference who is running the government in a Republic like that of the
United States of
America. We are NOT a democracy.
Those who wrote the Constitution of the United States in 1787 worked very
hard to make SURE this country, under the Constitution, would never become a
democracy. Historically, democracies fail. None have lasted more
than 2000 years.
Our Constitution set up
a Republic and guarantees that each of the states will also have a republican
form of government not a democratic form of government. Since most
Americans today dont understand that, I am not being critical of you for
labeling the USA as a democracy.
The American president
also, however, is not a dictator. The House of Representatives controls
the nations money. What happened during the Vietnam War was that a
Democrat Congress de-funded the military. The result of that, of course,
was a couple of million people died in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam as the
communists took control of those countries. As far as the Serbs and Kosovo
are concerned, remember it was President Bushs administration that after about
60 years saw to it that Draza Mihailovichs medal was finally delivered in
Belgrade to his
daughter. This was in direct opposition to the views of not only President
Bill Clinton, but a former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole both
of whom believed the Albanian lobbys view of what was going on in
Yugoslavia. It didnt help at
all that the Serbs were being led by a communist, Slobodan Milosevic.
After six decades of
US foreign policy being conducted in
opposition to communism it was fairly easy for clever people who really were
terrorists to convince a president who had gotten elected by dismissing the
important of foreign affairs. (Clintons campaign slogan was: Its the
economy, stupid. To this day, in the minds of even informed
Americans the issue in Yugoslavia was between communists and
those who were not communists, so, it is still difficult to get them much
interested in what is really going on in Kosovo. Although, I think some of
us who are writing on the subject are helping them understand the issues a
little better.
Many Serbs writing to
me equate Clintons bombing of Kosovo with Bushs
invasion of Iraq to depose
Saddam Hussein, who was flagrantly ignoring the provisions of the agreement he
signed when his troops were driven out of Kuwait.
Yet, Bush took action to fight terrorists whereas Clinton took action to HELP terrorists in the
KLA. Of all people, the Serbs ought to be able to understand
that.
Mary
Mostert
According to certain comments, democrats will win the US elections
this time.
Good job for those Americans who do not support Mr. Bush, but in general and on
the international plan,
what will happen. Nothing much. The era of Clintons rule showed what was democratic
international politics.
NATO bombing of Bosnian Serbs, 350 000 expelled Serbs from Croatia, then
Kosovo bombing 200 000 of Serbs expelled
from their homes, and finally the NOW.
Serbs cannot expect much from democrats. John Kerry the former candidate to the
US presidency, then declared that
Kosovo
should be given the independence. If I did not understand it in English I
certainly did understand it in French. It is quite difficult
for the Serbian government to deal with this sort of problem, knowing that
Serbian radicals do a lot for their own image and nearly
nothing
for Serbian national interests. It is not yet understood that the governments
are short life periods, but the nation is eternal.
Serbian Diaspora in USA and in EU should act as one and
be ready for all changes, and to be a firm
lobby.
D.Rakic
