You literally ripped my next post off! The following is an interesting article indeed:
news.bbc.co.uk
It clearly demonstrates that a ground intervention is urgent to reach a fair settlement in Kosovo. Obviously, France, along with her puppet accomplices (ie Italy, Greece, and Russia) and, although to a lesser extent, Germany, tremble at the very thought of such an outcome. That's why their respective media (TVs, jingo newspapers, etc.) are routinely hammering their audiences with the so-called ''NATO air-blunders'': they are trying to fatigue the European public opinion in its initial support for NATO's bombing campaign... The ultimate goal is to corner NATO into a ceasefire: this would be the European bourgeoisie's coup de grace on the US leadership in dealing with the Kosovo crisis. If the air campaign stops because of its alleged futility or calamity, it will blow out NATO's momentum and it will sanction Milosevic's victory over ''US imperialism'' --Oh! Sure enough: France and Russia would likely lobby for some symbolic sidestepping by Milosevic from Serbia's executive stage... But this political window dressing would be the rehash of what happened in Bosnia in 1996 when Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic agreed to bow out and let some frontmen handling the diplomatic formalities.
Besides, if the US successfully storm Kosovo and repopulate it with expelled ethnic Albanians, it will legitimate NATO as the necessary and sufficient organization to secure Europe from any totalitarian vagrancy... France and Germany's vague desires to build up some ''Euro-host'' will get dampened and, most importantly, Belgrade's xenophobic regime will get crushed uncompromisingly --a strong signal toward any would-be Milosevic.
Obviously, sych a clear-cut scenario is not to please some European nomenklaturas because such a complete disaster for the Serbian government will sully spick-and-span, democratic Europe as well: it will contrast the US's determination with Europe's leniency...
That's why Bitish PM Tony Blair is skillfully maneuvering: by showing himself as NATO's hawk, he diverts France's resentment toward the US. Blair is selling the ground war as a European idea, not just as a ''Washington folly'': if the UK can rally a larger support for the ground war then the payoff will be much bigger than a ''CNN campaign for the ground war''! France uses exactly the same tactics with Russia, that is the diplomatic Trojan Horse --such an old trick!
Gustave. |
