Never-questioned, never-ending distortions regarding the genesis and evolution of war in Bosnia from l992 onward
The myth of U.S. innocence in regard to Bosnia and the constant repetition of just how those horrible untermenschen, the Serbs kept butchering the poor and defenceless Bosnian Muslims forces one to pose: just a few preliminary questions to the mainstream media in the "West". The first one is are you interested in factually documented truths or in journalistic advocacy? If investigative journalism still survives in the post-Orwellian age, the answer to the first question is a resounding no. If it were otherwise, it would be noted that there was the so-called "Lisbon Agreement" and the Rotational Presidency rule of Yugoslavia in respect to Bosnia. The meeting of Bosnian, Serb and Croat representatives in Lisbon, brokered by Portugal's Minister for Foreign Affairs produced the agreement to end all armed hostilities in Bosnia as of February l992. It held until the last U.S. Ambassadort to Yugoslavia went to Sarajevo and told the Bosnian Muslim leader that he does not have to honor the Lisbon Pact plus that the U.S.stands ready to recognize Bosnia as an independent state with an automatic UN membership. As the Bosnian Muslim leader was to step down, rotating the Presidency by established succession rules,and turn it over to Radovan Karadzic, the U.S. diplomatic and rather obvious intervention gave Izetbegovich the signal to scuttle Lisbon, disregard the succession and stay in power indefinitely -which meant war. As for the U.S. innocence in Bosnia it should be widely known that our high-ranking officers trained directly the elite Vth Corps of the Bosnian Muslim Army. In two battles, it was defeated by General Mladich (the other "criminal Serb" sought by the impeccable Hague Tribunal), losing some 10,000 men whose bodies were made to disappear by the Sarajevo government only to re-appear whenever it was necessary to shore-up the myth of the-Serbs-as-unilateral -aggressors and Bosnian Muslim as the perennial and innocent victims. The innocence just does not work, all the more so because the U.S.A.F. bombed Bosnian Serb targets repeatedly. With the imploded Soviet Union out of the way, with a Serbia rooted in the branch of Christianity which was never particularly respected in the Catholic and Protestant West, with a Serbia without oil deposits plus its neo-communist rulers and reputation of being a nation of fighters became a most desirable target of advanced technology against which the Serbs did not have a chance. The results of anti-Serb and pro-Muslim engagement did not in the least help any real U.S. interests in the Middle East or elsewhere. But, by establishing the advent of the latest IMPERIUM, the Clintonite administration's legacy of arrogance altered in a serious way the PERCEPTION OF THE U.S. ITSELF, without leaders capable of transcending the self-delusions of a victory in the Balkans. The reality of it is that "we" won in so far as the shooting stoppeds but we left our anti-colonial roots out to dry and are allowing our foreign-policy elite to ridicule our populist tendencies and commit egregious faux pas abroad without any punishments at home. This is happening in a world in which insignificant and spontaneous grouplets can inflict mass destruction with weapons hard to stop. . To sum it up, the big media have turned themselves into mere robots condemned to repeat over and over again that wars amount to peace, that virtual reality displaces even the most elementrary forms of real reality, that the enemy to be defeated is the home publics' ability to think and question. While Sam is a most attractive Uncle at home hardly any within our 'ELITES' could bring themselves to belive that Uncle Sam is being replaced by the picture of Dorian Gray in many parts of the planet earth. Occasional exceptions not withstanding, one comes to suspect that mediatic morality plays would lose their entertaining aspects through the fatiguing and boring endeavors to learn. And, that is putting it charitably. Raymond K. Kent
