If you're so concerned about the legality of NATO actions, why don't you declare a citizen's arrest?
Three weeks ago you probably didn't know where Kosovo was and probably thought the NATO charter was a budget tour company in Europe.
The NATO charter does make provisions for unilateral preemptive measures if the threat against the security of any single NATO member or NATO as a whole is deemed immediate and significant. This could cover a multitude of sins. Sins like a decade long campaign of aggression, ethnic cleansing, murder, rape, pillage, and plunder, orchestrated by Slobodan Milosevic, that showed no signs of ending despite the outcry of the international community against it or the ineffective measures taken by a seemingly impotent UN.
The fact that this ongoing campaign of ruthless barbarity was going on within the geographic confines of NATO's sphere of influence, literally withing a stone's throw of NATO borders was a direct challenge to the authority and ability of NATO to exercise it's influence in the Balkans to perform it's mandate of providing security to all NATO members. It has been speculated that one of Milosevic's goals was just such a challenge against the post Warsaw Pact NATO alliance, with the tacit backing of Russia, as a means for putting NATO in it's place especially with the inclusion of former Warsaw Pact partners Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic to NATO earlier this year. The very real threat that the hostilities would spread over the borders of NATO member states should justify NATO's actions to anyone who doesn't have a personal axe to grind, either against NATO or against one of the various ethnic groups that Serbia has made it's targets.
C.H., it doesn't seem to me that you really give a rat's ass about what is right or wrong here, much less who is getting hurt by the violence of the past decade in the Balkans.. You just enjoy hearing yourself talk. I'd say you have all the makings for a career as a lawyer, politician, or telephone solicitor. Maybe all three. |
