Another non conventional article, if I keep this up I expect a visit from a friendly Secret Service, CIA or FBI agent<g>
Ultimatums ... the New Diplomacy?
Ultimatums ... the New Diplomacy By William Dorich Before the outbreak
of WWI, the Austrian Empire gave the Serbs an ultimatum. The
Serbs thumbed their nose and Austria bombed Belgrade the city captured
by the Axis powers. In 1918 the Serbs retook Belgrade. In 1941,
Hitler gave Serbia an ultimatum, too. The Serbs answered by declaring
war on Nazi Germany. Hitler retaliated by bombing the 'open city' of
Belgrade on Palm Sunday, April 6, 1941, killing 17,000 Serbs in one day.
During WWII Serbian villages were bombed by both the British and
the American forces knowing that there were no Germans in those
villages. In spite of this selective bombing to appease Tito's
Partisans, the
Serbian guerilla movement saved the lives of 500 American airmen downed
over occupied Yugoslav territory, the single largest rescue of
troops from behind enemy lines in American history. General Draza
Mihailovich received the Legion of Merit by an act of Congress in 1942.
Serbs knew Hitler would bomb them on Palm Sunday in 1941, they also know
that Clinton will kill Serbs this Easter to save face because his
foreign policy is bankrupted. Senator Biden, a rabid Serbophobe who has
no conscience in calling Serbs, "illiterates, degenerates, rapists and
baby killers," (CNN August 1, 1993) preached war today on the floor of
the Senate, yet this is the same Senator who came to office in the
year that Turkey invaded the Greek island of Cyprus and he has sat on
his hands ever since. Biden conveniently ignores the 34,000 Kurds
killed by our NATO ally, Turkey, the 60,000 Muslims killed in Algeria
and the 100,000 non-Muslims killed in the Sudan. His robust words of
war are a mockery of democratic ideals. In 1995, President Clinton
knowingly supported a concocted marketplace bombing in Sarajevo in
which the Bosnian Muslims slaughtered their own people in order to draw
in NATO who then dropped 6,000 tons on bombs on the Serbs.
NATO (read Americans) targeted Serbian civilians. A Serbian church,
school, hospital, 70 Serbian farm houses, six bridges, 7 water storage
facilities and 10 Serb apartment buildings were leveled. The
overwhelming majority of these structures were miles from the nearest
military
instillation. Are we now to believe that our missiles are that
inaccurate after General Schwarzkopf showed us how accurate they were in
Iraq?
President Johnson resorted to the Gulf of Tonkin lie that cost us 50,000
American lives. Clinton has resorted to one lie after another including
his lies about Kosovo that defend Albanian terrorists who have taken the
lives of 187 Serbian policeman and 820 innocent Serbian civilians. Of
the 300,000 Kosovo refugees, 100,000 are Serbs. That represents 45% of
the 230,000 Serbian minority of Kosovo. The remaining 200,000
Albanian refugees represents 11% of the alleged 1.8 million Albanians in
Kosovo. It is rather obvious who is getting the brunt of this 'ethnic
cleansing.' The targets of these Albanian terrorists are Serbian homes
knowing full well that selecting those targets brings the full force of
Serbian police and the Serbian army and rightfully so. In August of
1993, the Israeli army gave the Lebanese 5 hours notice before leveling
42
Lebanese villages, killing 150 victims and ethnically cleansing 230,000.
Israel claimed "they were ridding themselves of terrorists cells." But
Serbs who wish to rid themselves of Albanian terrorists cells and
thousands of foreign mercenaries are condemned by the west instead of
coming to their aid. These terrorists are financed by Albanian drug
lords who supply Europe with most of the drugs and prostitution.
Madeleine
Albright said clearly last week "if the Albanians do not sign this peace
treaty we will cut their supply lines." In other words the United States
has
turned a blind eye to Muslim mercenaries and the weapons flowing into
Kosovo from Albania. That is an act of war and sanctions should be
placed against Albanian immediately. In WWI the Serbs lost 52% of their
adult male population and provided the first victory in that war at
Cer, Serbia. As American allies in WWII, the Serbs lost 1.5 million
victims to Albanian, Muslim and Croatian Nazis. The Serbs were praised
for their military putsch in Belgrade on March 27, 1941 in the early
months of the Nazi occupation as the major factor that saved the Soviet
Union from being crushed by the Nazi legions. Winston Churchill
glorified the Serbs for their "magnificent valor." Now Serbs are being
denied a
voice by painting them with collective guilt, thereby muzzling any of
their views. Clinton mocks democratic ideals by dismembering a nation
piece by piece in favor of every ethnic minority with a grievances. The
American people continue to be told that Milosevic "unilaterally removed
the Albanian autonomy in 1989," a gross fabrication by the State
Department. The Yugoslav Constitution was changed in 1988 because
autonomous regions like Vojvodina and Kosovo could veto acts of the
Yugoslav parliament. Vojvodina approved the Constitutional change in
February of 1989 and Kosovo approved the change in March. The pretext
that someone has unilaterally taken something away is a ruse. The
State Department omits any reference that the Serbs in 1989 forced the
resignation of the entire central committee of the communist party in
the
"autonomous" region of Vojvodina, the first resignation of its kind in
any communist state in the world. Clinton also ignores the fact that
President Johnson awarded the Medal of Freedom to Milovan Djilas, a
Serb, for writing "New Class" the first anti-communist manifesto written
in this century. Mr. Djilas spent 12 years in prison for writing that
book. Far from cowering and capitulating to Clinton's threats to bomb
them,
Serbs have launched an offensive clearly designed to close off the
borders to more incoming arms and mercenaries. NATO's threatened air
strikes have consistently refused to consider Serbian concerns at the
"peace" talks in Paris. A peace talk in which neither side could
negotiate
any changes. That was not a negotiated peace that was dictatorship. A
major part of Serbian concerns is the very real recent history in which
hundreds of thousands of Serbs were driven from their homes in Croatia
as Croatian forces razed 400,000 homes and seized their properties,
killed the remaining elderly Serbs who foolishly stayed behind. Serbs
driven out of Croatia in 1995 are still denied their property. Knowing
that
President Clinton allowed Iranian arms and mercenaries to come into
Bosnian and now in Kosovo give the Serbs no choice but to stand and
fight. The bombing of military targets will not solve the underlining
problems in Kosovo, that the Serb, Montenegrin, Turkish and Greek
minorities have been denied equal rights, equal justice and legal
parity. Clinton and his aides have deliberately contributed to making
Serbia a
pariah nation in which 10 million Serbs are assigned with collective
guilt. This policy has now backfired. vvv Serbs spent 415 years on their
knees as Ottoman slaves, they refused to be ruled by Croats, Muslims and
Albanians who tried to liquidate them just 50 years ago. Kosovo is
Serbian territory, a fact supported by numerous nations and by every
international law. Instead of bombing Serbia, it is long overdue that
the
United States respect sovereign rights and to defend Serbia against
tyranny from within by criminal elements, from terrorists acts and from
invasion from a hostile neighbor whose drive for an independent Albanian
Kosovo has been well articulated. The writer is the author of the
1991 book, "Serbian Genocide 1941-45 and the 1992 book, Kosovo.
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