-Caveat Lector- A little history -- The New York Times, reporting on the Kosovo conflict back in 1987, described how the Albanian population of Yugoslavia was pushing for a "Greater Albania" by carrying out violent acts against Serbs. These included attacks on Serb Orthodox churches, crop burning and well-poisonings. Apparently, young Albanian men were told by their elders to rape Serbian women. In 1992, the NYT reported that 250,000 Serbs had been 'ethnically cleansed' from Croatia. 7 iv '99 EDINBURGH -- Some correspondents in the London papers were signing their own names to stories of atrocities, but much of the reportage was one journalist saying what another said she was told by an unnamed Kosovar. In particular, it was said on the BBC that Kosovar women could not be expected to put their own names to allegations of rape by Serbian soldiers, or indeed to give the slightest detail of such claims (because to do so would be too shaming for them and their families). In fact, it would be utterly bizarre if 10,000 Nato troops (including 4.500 British) had sat in Macedonia for a fortnight and not protected a single square mile of Kosovo or a retreat corridor from Pristina if horrendous atrocities had *indeed* been taking place (let alone the 'genocide' -- claimed six times in five minutes by UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook). The Nato bombing had killed over 300 civilians and wounded over 3,000 others, the Yugoslav ambassador to Russia claimed in Moscow. 7 iv '99 -- http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ (J. Orlin Grabbe) -- Bill Clinton's failing Kosovo war is part of a desperate, dangerous and fatally flawed plan by a scandal-ridden President to salvage a legacy for the history books, White House and Pentagon insiders say. 8 iv '99 EDINBURGH -- Having caused some 300 deaths in Serbia and some 17 deaths in Kosovo and precipitated the ethnic flight of a million ethnic Albanians (about 300,000 of them to Albania) and billions of dollars of material destruction, multicultural AmericOtan has embarked on spelling out its war aims. At the top of the agenda is Prime Minister Blair's undertaking to the Kosovars (Daily Telegraph 7 iv '99): "We will make sure you can return to your homes and live in your homes in peace. That is our promise." So the chief objective is merely to restore the status quo ante bellum! Just how Kosovo's 10% Serbian population is to be protected from victorious returning neighbours remains unclear; but at least there are plenty of homes left -- top journalist John Simpson revealed from Pristina that media suggestions of widespread burning of Kosovar homes were exaggerations (CFMR 8 iv '99, 00:00). Nato may have gambled and lost in its Third Way plan of avoiding the use of both diplomacy and infantry, but it is not lacking in spirit. It may not be able to save lives, but it can still save the face of New World Order neosocialist, the Reverend William Jefferson Clinton of the Church of the Seven Day Fornicators. 'The immaculate coercion' of fifteen days of nightly bombing has found the Middle Way between ignoring Serbian enormities and actually ending them and has proved popular with TV viewers; and once Yugoslavia is a flattened wasteland it should be possible to risk the occasional Nato operative to initiate the process of trying 'war criminals' and demanding reparations. This will let neosocialists make object lessons of nationalists for the next century. AmericOtan has been able to shrug off the anti-Nato-bombing pleas of the moderate Kosovan ethnic Albanian leader Mr Rugova with the unproven suggestion that he is being intimidated or drugged. Nor does the lack of interest of Albania in doing anything impact on Washington's Black House: in Albania, the big businesses are in narcotics, the control of prostitution in Naples and in war profiteering so there has been no time for helping Kosovars in Kosovo. UK newspapers continue to show a disjunction between well-propagandized leader writers' and journalists' allusions to 'genocide' on the one hand and independent-minded columnists and correspondents on the other. A particularly fine anti-war article was that by Andrew Roberts in the Times ('Patriots for peace', 7 iv '99). Roberts recalled the many eminent British politicians who have opposed wars in the past. William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806, "the saviour of Europe" [against Napoleon]) opposed making war on the rebellious American colonies; Charles James Fox (1749-1806, "the greatest debater the world ever saw" [Burke]) opposed fighting France on land; the arch-conservative Third Marquis of Salisbury (1830-1903) opposed fighting Russia in the Crimean War'; David Lloyd George (Prime Minister of victorious Britain in 1918) had opposed fighting the Boers; and Labour Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937) had opposed declaring war on Germany in 1914. Noting the plight of Alex Salmond (the Scottish National Party leader currently condemned by Blairites as "the toast of Belgrade"), Roberts recalls Lloyd George's words: "The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it." Moreover, Roberts recalls the solemn promise given to Mikhail Gorbachev, to encourage him to bring down the Berlin Wall: that Nato would *not* embark on aggressive hegemonization in Eastern Europe. For Nato to have shredded its commitments to Russia, the United Nations and its own Charter has been astonishingly irresponsible in a way that can only be justified by some fairly immediate outbreak of heaven on earth. Anyway, the flight of the Kosovars suggests the 'intervention' is over and lost bar the continued pounding of Serbia necessary to save multiculturalist faces: "For all that we are told by Nato's Jamie Shea that the 'surgical operations' have been a success," says Andrew Roberts, "it is impossible not to notice that the patient has inconveniently died." Letter-writers also have covered themselves with glory at a difficult time when TV viewers find it easier to do nothing but condemn the Serbs. In the Times (7 iv '99), the war had the support of Stanley Brichto, the Senior Vice-President of the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues, London W1P 6D5. However, Thatcherite trooper Sir Alfred Sherman condemned the bombing; and Philip James wrote to say most informed opinion in London opposed the war. In the Telegraph too, correspondents were overwhelmingly critical of their paper's gung-ho line. Traditionally Nato-supporting Lady Olga Maitland (of the anti-USSR organisation, 'Women and Families for Defence') felt that the immediate humanitarian action necessary to help Kosovars should be funded overwhelmingly by President Clinton, who had demanded the bombing campaign from European neosocialists; another writer referred to Nato's "collective madness"; and 'maverick' Conservative MP Alan Clark [of Memoirs] pointed out that, on its own logic, AmericOtan may shortly need to bomb already-unstable Macedonia to punish those people for being inhospitable to ethnic Albanians. Remarkably, Romano Prodi, the Italian politician who is expected to become the next President of the European Union, chose this moment to delight in the E.U.'s having smashed 'the two pillars of the traditional nation state -- the sword and the currency' (Daily Telegraph 7 iv '99). Certainly, what the E.U. had not done already from Brussels, AmericOtan's multicultural bombing was completing in Serbia. Instead of quietly arming the Kosovo Liberation Army (as the USA once armed Afghanistan's mujahedin and Croatia's forces) or assassinating Mr Milosevic, AmericOtan has preferred two weeks' bombing of 'military targets' and now 'infrastructure' in Serbia without any conspicuous effort to ensure Serbs knew what 'atrocities' Nato claimed were perpetrated in their name. AmericOtan has ensured that, in future, no people will have confidence in a national government unless it has nuclear and biological weapons. For this development, multiculturalist neosocialism will bear a heavy responsibility until neoliberalism can restore respect for autonomy, choice and contract. The mercy is that so many people are still alive after two weeks of armed professionals fighting in Europe; but that won't last long if Macedonia -- already bussing refugees from its frontier and denying access to more Nato 'peacekeepers' -- collapses and sparks the long-feared Balkan War that would break the fifty-year Nato alliance. _________________________________________________________________ Chris Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Edinburgh. Author of 'The 'g' Factor' http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk. -- "The worst curse of all is that a man must tread the evil road for the sake of the good and the right -- that he must make detours and walk crookedly so that he may reach the straight goal." Essene curse, explained in Arthur Koestler's 'The Gladiators', 1939. -- DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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