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A Perfect Polemic: Blind to Reality on Kosovo
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If the Clinton White House is for it, Michael Mandelbaum must be against it. Hence his broadside on Kosovo ignored the inconvenient fact that NATO won.
Submitted by Joachim H. (Mar. 29, 2009) on March 29, 2009 - 12:36pm.
10 years after, the same propagand lies are asserted. How could you pretend that in Kosovo we saw the most horrible atrocities since WWII?
With a death toll situated between 8000 and 13000, all ethnicities confounded, civilians, policemen, soldiers and terrorists?
What about the strategic reasons for the US to wage this war of aggression? Re-affecting a new identity to NATO as auxiliary force defending US interests? Muting from a defensive pact to an organization capable of projecting force outside its territory? Beeing a substitution for the UNSC if the council does not accept a resolution conform to the interests of the sole US? Beeing able of waging wars of agression, as we saw later with Iraq and Afghanistan? Establishing a huge US military base (Bondsteel) in the vincinity of the caspian sea and contributing to encircle Russia?
Those are the real questions and it's a little thin an argument to serve us 10 years old propaganda about allegeded massacres wich never happened.
The NATO war in Kosovo did not come out of the blue. The alliance fought only after Belgrade turned a deaf ear to diplomacy, and NATO knew the risks it was running. But doing nothing would have been worse; assenting to Slobodan Milosevic's mass killings would have dangerously undermined the credibility of Western institutions.
Michael J. Glennon sees Kosovo as the death of the U.N. rules on intervention and the birth of ad hoc justice. But rumors of the old system's demise are exaggerated.
Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired. It should renounce political intervention and encourage local development without trying to improve governance.
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Propaganda lies
10 years after, the same propagand lies are asserted. How could you pretend that in Kosovo we saw the most horrible atrocities since WWII?
With a death toll situated between 8000 and 13000, all ethnicities confounded, civilians, policemen, soldiers and terrorists?
What about the strategic reasons for the US to wage this war of aggression? Re-affecting a new identity to NATO as auxiliary force defending US interests? Muting from a defensive pact to an organization capable of projecting force outside its territory? Beeing a substitution for the UNSC if the council does not accept a resolution conform to the interests of the sole US? Beeing able of waging wars of agression, as we saw later with Iraq and Afghanistan? Establishing a huge US military base (Bondsteel) in the vincinity of the caspian sea and contributing to encircle Russia?
Those are the real questions and it's a little thin an argument to serve us 10 years old propaganda about allegeded massacres wich never happened.