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Entry: The Architecture of Perpetual War Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_architecture_of_perpetual_war#3415 Post contents: Regarding Kosovo. There seems to be a remarkable lack of knowledge in the USA about what happened in the Balkans in the 90's and even more lack of knowledge about the direct and constant meddlings of the USA into Balkan's affairs. To very shortly recapitulate, the administration of Bush1 rooted for the evilest and most brutal party in the conflict, the Serbs under communism and Slobodan Milosevic. The american administration didn't care much for ideology or freedom. They concluded that the Serbs were the strongest and most brutal of the Yugoslav peoples. So they supported the Serbs. As did Israel, China, Russia and most of then Social-Democratic Europe and Third World. Well, the Serbs failed to deliver, despite the UN embargo on selling arms to Yugoslavia, thus denying the breakaway states any possibility of defending themselves agaist the Serbs who were armed to their teeth. After several disgraceful episodes with Western hostages chained to radars, Serb concentration camps showing up Auschwitz-like inmates and programs of mass raping their enemies women, it became too embarrasing supporting the really really bad guys. So, breaking the UN embargo and her own laws the Clinton administration started secretly arming the next preferred group, the Bosnian Muslims, or Bosniaks as they came to call themselves. The military incompetence and impotence of the Bosniaks was even worse than that of the Serbs, they delivered even less than the Serbs, nothing. Finally, the third and last possible group that could be supported, the Croatians, got their field day. Unleashed, they retook their own territory in a mere three day blitz-krieg and proceeded to conquer great chunks of neigboring Bosnia as well, not only for themselves, but for the Bosniaks too. This was probably a bit too much of "delivery" for the Clinton administration, so they stopped the Croatians and at the same time the Kosovo Albanians, who, emboldened by the defeat of their enemies, wanted to engage in something similar in their own province. The only way for the US to stop the Kosovo Albanians was to promise "to do something". A halfhearted bombing campaign against Serbia ensued and a status quo of sorts happened in Kosovo, which is still the case today. The USA actually managed to support ALL the warring parties in the former Yugoslavia at one time or other! Well, mabe not Slovenia, that mini-war was only ten days long. The epilogue and conclusion to all this, in American rightish circles at least, is that one of those meddlings was so much wronger than the others, the aerial bombing of Serbia. Thus once again Americans have shown to be easily duped. Andrew Bacevic, Srdja Trifcovic and other Serbs or Americans of Serb ancestry have been instrumental in this business. Congrats to them. If you're a conservative, or rightist, person, ask yourself why your arguments against the bombing of Serbia not only resemble, but are vertatim of what various socialist and communist groups say about the matter as well? Don't read commie stuff? Well, then better start reading it. Maybe it will open your eyes in an unexpected way. Sent at: 2008 10 07