Friday, September 26, 2014

Raw Imperialism Run Amok

Vladan Lukic, a leading Yugoslav soccer player, shows a destroyed house, where Stevan (8) and Dajana Pavlovic (7) were killed during recent NATO bombing in Ralja near Belgrade June 26, 1999 (Reuters)

Before the Yugoslavian escapade with Bill Clinton, General Wesley Clark had experience with incinerating civilians while commander at Fort Hood, Texas in 1993.  The tank assault on the Branch Davidian compound had his military imprint on it, as well as “the utter disregard for the lives of innocent men, women and children” within.  Bernhard Thuersam

Raw Imperialism Run Amok

“Regular readers of this column are acquainted with the exact terms of the Rambouillet “peace” accords, which Serbia refused to sign, and for which reason it got bombed. The details of this American-sponsored plan are still unfit to print in the “mainstream” media in the United States, but the cat is out of the bag in Europe.  

In Britain, John Pilger was the first to blow the whistle (New Statesman, May 17 [1999]:

“Anyone scrutinizing the Rambouillet document is left in little doubt that the excuses given for the subsequent bombing were fabricated. The peace-negotiations were stage-managed, and the Serbs were told: “surrender and be occupied, or don’t surrender and be destroyed . . . Of all the Hitler and Nazi analogies that have peppered the West’s propaganda, one is never mentioned – Hitler’s proposal in 1938 to [Chamberlain], that Germany occupy Czechoslovakia because ethnic Germans there had been “tortured,” “forced to flee the country,” and “prevented from realizing the right of nations to self-determination.”  As a cover for German expansion, Hitler was laying the basis for “humanitarian intervention,” whose fraudulence was no greater than NATO’s cover for its own worldwide expansion.

On the subject of [the] Nuremburg [trials and their comparison to the Serbian situation], the last surviving prosecutor from that war-crimes trial, Walter J. Rockler, strongly condemned [General Wesley] Clark’s and [Bill] Clinton’s war as illegal and immoral (Chicago Tribune, May 10):

“The planning and launching of this war by the president heightens the abuse and undermining of the war-making authority under the Constitution. (It seems to be accepted that the president can order his personal army to attack any country he pleases).  [The] attack on Yugoslavia constitutes the most brazen international aggression since the Nazi’s attacked Poland to prevent “Polish atrocities” against Germans.  The United States has discarded any pretentions to international legality and decency, and embarked on a course of raw imperialism run amok . . .  [W]hen we, the self-anointed rulers of the planet, issue an ultimatum to another country, it is “surrender or die.” 

(Signs of the Times, Chronicles, August 1999, excerpts pp. 26-27)

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