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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080307/EDITORIAL /612628222/1013/EDITORIAL <http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080307/EDITORIA L/612628222/1013/EDITORIAL&template=nextpage> &template=nextpage The Washington Times 7 March 2008 Letters to the Editor American ghostbusters American foreign policy under both Republicans and Democrats has been detrimental to American interests for the past 20 years ("Moscow, Tehran and Washington," Editorial, Wednesday). It is morally corrupt and also financially and legally disastrous. Both Democratic and Republican administrations have spent billions of tax dollars fighting ghosts and an unidentified "enemy" around the world. The Clinton administration as well as the Bush administration would go to war to "fight terror." Yet in most cases, they would install governments whose leaders have had direct links to organized crime or al Qaeda. Arthur Kent, writing from Afghanistan in his column at e-Ariana.com, says the following about the pervasive corruption of the Karzai regime: "The sheer scope of fraud within the regime's ministries has caused a collapse of public trust. So much so that Hamid Karzai's corrupt dominion arguably constitutes a greater threat to the long-term security of Afghanistan than anything those back-country no-hopers known as the Taliban are capable of mustering on the battlefield." In the Serbian province of Kosovo, however, both the Clinton and the Bush administrations not only have supported financially and militarily the leaders of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, which was on the U.S. State Department's terrorism list until 1998, but also have given them a "supervised," "independent state" of Kosovo. At his briefing about Kosovo on Feb. 18, Nicholas Burns, undersecretary of state for political affairs, said: "We think it is a very positive step that this state Muslim majority state has been created today." This "step" not only is against international law, the U.N. charter and the Helsinki Final Act, but it will further destabilize the Balkans and give a clear signal to every "dissatisfied" separatist group that it can achieve its goal by conducting ethnic cleansing and disseminating terror. In his April 6, 2004, piece "We bombed the wrong side?" in Canada's National Post, retired Maj. Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, who commanded U.N. troops during the 1992 Bosnian civil war, puts it this way: "When achieve independence with the help of our tax dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just consider the message of encouragement this sends to other terrorist-supported independence movements around the world." BOBA BOROJEVIC Ottawa
