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The Washington Times
LETTERS
Thursday, May 9, 2002/Page A20
NATO 'divide and conquer' mission
By supporting the destruction of the formerly peaceful and multiethnic
Yugoslavia for the sake of dividing and conquering the Balkans for NATO, we are
merely encouraging the eventual demise of our own multiethnic country
("Yugoslavia no more," Editorial, May 5).
With a population of only 650,000 people, granting independence to
Montenegro would be like China granting independence to the city of Albuquerque,
N.M., making the country even weaker than Bosnia. It will open yet another
easy route to mafia drug smuggling and prostitution, provide more opportunities
to recruit impoverished followers for Osama bin Laden, and incite a massive
civil war within the Yugoslav republic.
I guess that our State Department must be convinced that the Balkan people
will never be able to live in multiethnic harmony with one another (presumably
because of the "nationalist" Serbs; of course, it is OK for Americans and
Israelis to be "nationalists," but not Serbs).
This attitude reveals the institutionalized racism at the State Department
(and your editorial page) and the true ignorance of many of our leaders. This
is, quite frankly, un-American. From your point of view, it is better to
destroy a nation than it is to rebuild it.
MICHAEL PRAVICA
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