http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/?p=750
Ahtisaari's Well Deserved Prize
by Srdja Trifkovic
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded last Friday to former Finnish president
Martti Ahtisaari. The mainstream media claimed matter-of-factly that this was
the "global trouble-shooter's" reward for many years of "helping end strife" in
troublespots ranging from Kosovo to Namibia and Indonesia. The Norwegian Nobel
Committee hailed Ahtisaari (71) "for his important efforts, on several
continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international
conflicts." The claim is ridiculous: Far from being a peacemaker, Ahtisaari is
an obedient apparatchik of the global elite class whose job it is to help
impose "solutions" decided upfront by his paymasters in Washington, New York
and Brussels. He is therefore eminently deserving of this particular honor.
There have been controversial Nobel peace prizes over the years Yasser Arafat
comes to mind, not to mention Menachem Begin but over the past two decades
the institution has degenerated into farce.
Last year it went to Al Gore for his "Inconvenient Truth." Enough said.
In 1992thepanel of five Norwegian worthiesgave it toGuatemalan "activist" (i.e.
leftist self-dramatist andfraud)Rigoberta Menchu, whosedeservedly forgotten
autobiography was cut out of whole cloth. (The brother she "watched die of
malnutrition"was later found to be alive and wellfed.)
In 1999 the laureate was Bernard Kouchner, a shameless self-promoter and
currently Sarkozy's foreign minister. This quintessential '68-er has
beenpiggybacking of human misery for decades. Kouchner's outpouring of
pornograpic compassion, elicited by the plight of the "Boat People," prompted
even his very own Doctors Without Borders to disown him. His mending of fences
with the French right and current gainful employment came in the aftermath
of his failed bids for the post of the director of the World Health
Organisation and the U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees.
Ahtisaari is in good company. His most high-profile mission to date Kosovo
is an unresolved problem made worse by him than it had been before him, or that
it would have been without him. His support of the Albanian cause and
insistence on independence as the only option is what the United States wanted,
and he performed on cue. That his "plan" is detrimental to peace and stability
in theregion needs no restating.
It is ironic that the Nobel Committee announced its decision in the same week
when Serbia's resolution to have the International Court of Justice consider
the legality of Kosovo's self-declared independence was adopted by the U.N.
General Assembly. It's a bit like giving Neville Chamberlain the 1939 peace
prize for Munich 1938
Ahtisaariembarked on his bungled attempt to "deliver" the Serbsafter spending
many years as "Chairman Emeritus"of the Soros-funded International Crisis
Group(ICG). There isn't a single evil cause or bad idea especially in the
Balkans that the ICG does not support and promote.
Ahtisaari's approachto "troubleshooting" in Kosovo in 2006-2007may have been
based on six years' worth of flawed advice that he and others in the
"international community" had received from Western diplomats in Belgrade and
from a small but influential clique of "pro-Western" Serbian officials and
analystswho now hold the reins of power. All along hisassumption had been that
Serbia would cave in yet again and agree to Kosovo's detachment, albeit with
some meaningless fig leaf ("conditional independence," "international
guarantees for minority rights," etc, etc); that Russia and China would endorse
the deal at the Security Council; and that the problem would be taken off the
agenda by the end of 2007with the raisingof yet another ex-Yugoslavflag at the
U.N.
Ahtisaari cared not a hoot whatthe nature of the new entity would be
aninternational protectorate, an EU-NATO condominium, a future province of
Greater Albaniabuthe was insistent thatit would no longer be part of Serbia.
His plan has promisedprotection for the remaining Serbs, and everyone
Ahtisaari included knew thatthose "guarantees"were just new lies on top of the
old.
When all the Serbs are clearedout from their historic and spiritual
heartland,and their holy places destroyed an even bet for the next decade
therewillbe expressions of surprise and regret from the latest Nobel laureate.
Both sentiments will be false. Ahtisaari's true surprise and regret will come
when he dies.
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