ADVENTURES IN WORLD GOVERNMENT --
PORTENT FOR IRAQ?
Amnesia and the Birth of a Nation
January 21, 2004
By Toby Westerman
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A hard lesson is being taught to global planners who believe that democratic government and the availability of a free market inevitably translates into peace, love, and profits. To those who refuse to be reconstructed, ancient hatreds or millennial dreams of greatness are of more value than the prospect of a pleasing return on an equity investment.
In Iraq, U.S. policy removed a bloody tyrant, but now American and coalition forces are attacked by a variety of hostile groups seeking widely differing goals. The groups are united by one common demand - the removal of U.S. and allied forces. The U.S. may have, in fact, won the war, but (paraphrasing humorist Will Rogers) lost the peace, as casualties mount, and the U.S. dream of a new, Westernized Iraq appears even more elusive.
The haunting specter of global planning gone awry is nowhere more apparent, however, than in the Balkan region, an area of the world which is now all but invisible in the U.S. media, but remains a place of wild violence close the heart of Europe, and part of the terrorist path to the U.S.
Within the Balkans, no area is so uncertain, possessing such ominous possibilities as Kosovo -- a region which is neither a nation, nor a province, but cloaked in the shadowy status of a U.N./NATO protectorate.
Kosovo is also a monument to the ineptitude of the global planners. From the Clinton presidency to the Bush administration, the same ineffectual policy is at work in one of the most troublesome hotspots in the world, with thousands of U.S. troops stationed in the midst of hostile populations seething with ethnic hatred.
NATO occupied Kosovo following its 78-day air war against the now-defunct Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of Slobodan Milosevic. Kosovo had been part of Serbia, the larger of the two members of the Yugoslav republic. The war erupted over charges of Serb massacres of ethnic, Muslim Albanians living Kosovo. No evidence of massacres has been found, however, and the press reports of atrocities are now being questioned.
U.N. Resolution 1244 guaranteed that Serbia would retain Kosovo as its province, but, despite assurances to the Serbian government, Kosovo is on the road to independence.
An independent Kosovo, however, ought to be a major embarrassment to those in the "world community" seeking nationhood for the still nominally Serb province.
In Kosovo today, armed Albanian fundamentalist Islamic groups are the real power with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), wittingly or unwittingly transferring private companies to gangland organizations, which then launder money through those companies, according to Radio Serbia-Montenegro, which cited several French news sources.
The trafficking of people, drugs, and arms sales account for the large sums of money entering into Kosovo. Some reports describe Kosovo as a "Mafia state."
Under the protection of the U.N. and NATO, Kosovo has become an "ethnically pure" state, after Serbs fled Kosovo following waves of violence and intimidation.
Ironically, charges of "ethnic cleansing" were often cited as a major reason for NATO's war against Milosevic's Yugoslavia.
The global planners, NGOs, "world community" representatives, intelligence advisors, and a host of other well-intentioned experts have brought Kosovo from a troubled province to a gangland/terrorist state operating under U.N./NATO supervision.
Discussions concerning an independent Kosovo continue, despite earlier promises and a U.N. resolution, and despite the current ethnic lawlessness in Kosovo. The global planners and their associates should recall that Iraq was more stable than Kosovo, but nevertheless bred Saddam Hussein.
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