2022: Uncle Sam's Long Trail of Wreckage - The American Conservative
2011: Peter Dale Scott
Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya
2010: Nebojsa Malic «
Nebojsa Malic discusses the Council of Europe report on Kosovo’s “mafia-like” government that traffics in drugs, weapons and human organs; the KLA‘s speedy (and
undeserved) 1998 transition from a US-designated terrorist group to a band of “freedom fighters;” the multitude of lies before, during and after the Kosovo War; how Richard Holbrooke helped negotiate the laudable Dayton Agreement bringing peace to
Bosnia-Herzegovina then worked steadfastly to undermine it; and how the US effort to reinvigorate NATO – which became an anachronism after the Soviet collapse – can partly explain the seemingly strange US interest in Kosovo.
2009: Kosovo war not justified, professor argues in new book
2008: From the Vice Presidential debate, courtesy of Arthur Silber:
IFILL: Senator, you have quite a record, this is the next question here, of being an interventionist. You argued for intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo, initially in Iraq and Pakistan and now in Darfur, putting U.S. troops on the ground. Boots on the
ground. Is this something the American public has the stomach for?
BIDEN: I think the American public has the stomach for success. My recommendations on Bosnia. I admit I was the first one to recommend it. They saved tens of thousands of lives.
And initially John McCain opposed it along with a lot of other people. But the end result was it worked. Look what we did in Bosnia. We took Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks, being told by everyone, I was told by everyone that this would mean that they had been
killing each other for a thousand years, it would never work.
There's a relatively stable government there now as in Kosovo.
Silber comments, "Biden's first sentence is unquestionably true: so steeped are Americans in the myth of "American exceptionalism," that they don't care at all whether we engage in war crimes, whether we unleash a genocide, whether we murder
millions of innocent human beings -- so long as we "win." Biden is correct on that point, and this particular truth is unutterably disgusting.
"But every word that Biden says about Bosnia and Kosovo is a lie. Every word is a lie. These
are the lies of liberal "humanitarianism,' which is imperialism under a different but equally bloody flag. I can only deconstruct these particular lies so many times. For a great deal of background on Bosnia and Kosovo, read, "The
Truth Shall Drive You Mad: The Wise Men and Women of the Empire of Death." Here's a very brief excerpt:
I've written about the Clinton administration's Balkans policy, in the second half of "Iraq Is the Democrats' War, Too," and in "Liberal
Hypocrisy in the Name of 'Humanitarianism'."
I suppose it might be advisable to remind you that the major excuse employed to this day by many liberals to "justify" the bombing campaign -- "But a genocide was going on!"
-- was a lie. Yes, it was a lie. Read Diana Johnstone's book, Fools'
Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO, and Western Delusions
, and read her article from February of this year,
"NATO's Kosovo Colony."
