You are not a big fan of preventing genocide, huh?
Actually, the ethnic cleansing was dramatically escalated by our bombing. We anticipated this effect.
<<< On March 27, three days after the Nato bombing in the Balkans began, U.S.-Nato Commanding General Wesley Clark announced that it was "entirely predictable" that Serb terror and violence would intensify after the onset of bombing. But on the same day, State Department spokesperson James Rubin said that "The United States is extremely alarmed by reports of an escalating pattern of Serbian attacks on Kosovar Albanian civilians". Shortly after, Clark reported again that he was not surprised by the sharp escalation of Serb terror after the bombing: "The military authorities fully anticipated the vicious approach that Milosevic would adopt, as well as the terrible efficiency with which he would carry it out." UK Defence Secretary George Robertson had described Nato's aim as "clear cut". Its aim, he said, was "to avert an impending humanitarian catastrophe by disrupting the violent attacks currently being carried out by the Yugoslav security forces against the Kosovan Albanians". This was directly contradicted by Commanding General Clark when he admitted that the bombing operation "was not designed [by the political leadership] as a means of blocking Serb ethnic cleansing. There was never any intent to do that. That was not the idea." >>>
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Famous Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn - "The aggressors have kicked aside the UN, opening a new era where might is right."
Certainly, if preventing genocide was the goal, it would have been much more easily accomplished by not arming and training the Turkish military as it committed genocide against the Kurds.
Tom |
