NOTHING
SUCCEEDS LIKE . . .
What
do the NATO-crats have
to say for themselves? "A year ago, NATO launched its
airpower to end the repression in Kosovo," says NATO
Secretary General George Robertson, "and succeeded. In
the blizzard of words that has followed it is easy to overlook
that simple fact." A blizzard not only of words, but of casualties
– over 800 Serbs slaughtered by the Kosovo Liberation
Army fanatics since the NATO "liberation," and 150,000-plus
driven out of the region – right under the noses of the
so-called peacekeepers. This, to the NATO-crats, is
success.
NO
ILLUSIONS – AND NO SERBS
But
we shouldn't rest on our laurels. "However there should be
no illusions," avers the evil
Robertson, "the task remaining is formidable." Yeah, I hear
there are still a few Serbs left in Mitrovica. But we needn't
worry about that – the "peacekeepers" are being
kept busy "escorting" Albanians into the last remaining Serb
neighborhood. It won't be long before the last Serb has packed
his bags – and NATO's mission has been accomplished.
COSA
NATO
"Liberated"
Kosovo, one year later, is – in
the words of Kiri Dienstbier, the UN's special human rights
investigator for the former Yugoslavia – "a paradise
for different mafias." "There are very different private structures
of power...It is a paradise for different mafias which not
only control certain regions and villages, they even fight
each other." What he doesn't say is that all these little
mafias are operating under the protection of the Biggest Mafia
of Them All, headquartered in Brussels, and known by its acronym:
NATO.
IN
THE CROSSFIRE
So,
the Albanian Kosovars are "even fighting among themselves"
– what a surprise!
For centuries, the rural northern Ghegs – who were heavily
recruited into the Skanderberg
Division of the Nazi SS during World War II – have
been fighting the southern Tosks, who live in the plains area
and were big
supporters of Enver Hoxha, the Albanian Stalin. The Kosovo
war forged a temporary unity, but now the long-running feud
between the Albanian version of the Hatfields and the McCoys
is on again – with NATO caught in the crossfire.
TURNING
POINT
The
London Guardian reports
that military planners are already preparing for the inevitable
showdown with the KLA, and headlined the story: "Pentagon
braced for bloodshed after raids on guerrillas." The Pentagon
has "formally alerted" US troops in the field that they will
no doubt be facing their former "allies" in the field. A year
after State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin praised the KLA
as "freedom-fighters," they are getting ready to start shooting
at us – now that's what I call gratitude, Albanian style.
A recent raid on the arm caches built up by the 800-man Liberation
Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB) – named
after the three Albanian-inhabited towns in southern Serbia's
Presevo valley – is the first major action in what will
be an ongoing conflict. "We have now fired the first shot
at the Albanian insurgents – and insurgents have a tendency
to carry a grudge," says one Pentagon official. "If they come
to see us as an enemy then [the raid] will be seen as a turning
point."
KOSOVO,
THE SEQUEL
Oh,
but not to worry, says the KLA's
man in the State Department: Rubin, just back from a trip
to Kosovo, said: "We do not believe we are drifting towards
a conflict with Kosovo Albanian insurgents." Why, those Albanian
pussycats would never harm a hair on an American head due
to the "deep reservoir of respect, thanks and goodwill towards
the United States." Would he care to go over there himself,
and go on patrol with American troops? Perhaps his lovely
wife, KLA
propagandist Christiane Amanpour, would like to accompany
him: together they could do a CNN documentary, "Return to
Kosovo," where they could confront – and perhaps even
answer for – the results of their handiwork, a land that,
as Dienstbier put it, is "a paradise of mafias."
OOOPS!
But
Dienstbier is either unbelievably naïve or else utterly
disingenuous when he avers: "I see that what is happening
in Kosovo now is the result of a mistake of policy of the
international community... bombing Yugoslavia without knowing
what will be next. Meanwhile, Kosovo Liberation Army weapons
came and they took over control and are now cleansing non-Albanians."
Mistake? He can't be serious. Here is a sophisticated
man, the former Czech foreign minister, who believes (or pretends
to believe) that the bombing, the murder and ethnic cleansing
of Serbs, the rising dictatorship of the KLA, the continued
provocations aimed at destabilizing what is left of Yugoslavia
– it was all an accident, a terrible "mistake." Is this
what the UN has to say about an action endorsed by its Security
Council and personally approved by the Secretary General:
"Ooops!"? Gee, I tried to call The Hague to report
a war crime – but the line seems always to be busy.
REMEMBER
NAPALM?
To
call what happened to Kosovo a "mistake" would be laughable,
but only to someone given to the blackest humor. This is especially
true in light of the recent
confirmation that the US used radioactive bullets against
the Serbs. According to a letter from the UN task force on
Kosovo war damage to Secretary General Kofi Annan, areas hit
by radioactive ammunition – used during approximately
100 bombing missions – are dangerously contaminated.
With a half-life of 4.5 billion years, twice as dense as lead,
depleted uranium is radioactive and ultra-toxic. The San
Francisco Examiner, which broke the story, informs us
that "depleted uranium burns when it hits a target, contaminating
the tank and the surrounding area." Depleted uranium –
the napalm of America's post-millennial Vietnam.
WHAT,
ME WORRY?
As
the Examiner story goes on, it all has a very familiar
ring to it: "The Pentagon has tried to downplay the risks
of exposure to depleted uranium dust and debris since the
1991 Persian Gulf War, when it was used for the first time
in combat." I wonder how many vets of that war are
now wandering the streets, irreparably damaged, inevitably
homeless, and invariably hopeless – and all because of
the Pentagon's "downplaying"? And how many more on the way?
"However," the article continues, "independent scientists
say the substance has been linked to skin, kidney and respiratory
disorders, and can damage any part of the body in which it
is stored, including the lungs, lymph nodes, liver, kidneys,
muscle and bone." Ah, but not to worry, says the UN panel
in their letter to Annan, this "should not be a cause of widespread
alarm"! Unless you happen to live in Kosovo, of course –
or if you happen to be an American soldier on patrol.
THE
COVEN
Was
it stupidity or evil that poisoned the very land the NATO-crats
claimed to be "liberating"? Is this, too, a "mistake"? I don't
think so. Do you? What we are dealing with, in the current
leaders of the Western world, is not a gang of Keystone Kops,
but a coven of sadistic assassins, the kind who like to torture
their victims before they put them out of their misery. This
is precisely what they are doing in Kosovo, and throughout
the former Yugoslavia. An example must be made: the great
enemy, nationalism, must be finally humbled and wiped out,
so that the "European spirit" can wash over the land, cleansing
it of any and all undesirable elements. Kosovo was no mistake,
from the NATO-cratic point of view, but a model of the wars
of the future. For Kosovo is only the first item on the pan-European
agenda. Montenegro is next, and then Vojivodina, and then
eastward, to Macedonia, and on to the Ukraine. Soon we will
be at the very gates of Moscow.
TO
ELBA
The
ambition of the NATO-crats is positively Napoleonic: we can
only hope that it meets a similar fate. In which case more
than a few of them will be exiled to Elba, or some similarly
desolate isle, where they will be free to write their memoirs
and brood on the enormity of their crimes. It is something
to look forward to, anyway.
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