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NATO’s Balkans Disaster and Wilsonian Warmongering, Part 2

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NATO's Balkans Disaster and Wilsonian Warmongering, Part 2 by Doug Bandow, August 1999 Part 1 | Part 2 The Founders vested the power to declare war in Congress because they feared presidents would do precisely what they are doing today — regularly taking the nation into overseas conflicts. It is all too easy to loose the dogs of war; it is impossible to control where they go afterwards. The administration launched an unprovoked assault against a nation that had not threatened the United States or any U.S. ally, lowering the bar against aggressive war worldwide. What is the proper standard for making war? That is, what justifies the United States's taking the extreme step of unleashing death and destruction on another people? Traditionally it has been a military threat against it. Yet Yugoslavia did nothing against America or any of its allies. Grant that Serbian treatment of Kosovars has been atrocious. So has the Turkish handling of the Kurds. And the conduct of ...

It’s Not Ours to Negotiate

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Jesse Jackson's mission to Belgrade, which led to the freeing of the three American prisoners of the Yugoslav war, has many people wondering whether a negotiated settlement is in the works. After Jackson brought the servicemen out of Serbia, President Clinton implied that he was lowering his standard for a bombing halt. For example, he said that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic needed to begin-not complete-a withdrawal from Kosovo to stop the bombing. Yet the bombing continues in intensified form. NATO has begun carpet bombing with B-52s, a tactic that can't help but kill civilians, since it covers an area with "dumb" bombs. The allies are able to knock out the power at will, endangering, among others, the 70 babies at Belgrade's Institute for Premature Infants. So goes the humanitarian war. You need not be a warmonger to see that Milosevic used Jackson, though the reverend seems not to know ...

It’s Not Ours to Negotiate

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Jesse Jackson's mission to Belgrade, which led to the freeing of the three American prisoners of the Yugoslav war, has many people wondering whether a negotiated settlement is in the works. After Jackson brought the servicemen out of Serbia, President Clinton implied that he was lowering his standard for a bombing halt. For example, he said that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic needed to begin-not complete-a withdrawal from Kosovo to stop the bombing. Yet the bombing continues in intensified form. NATO has begun carpet bombing with B-52s, a tactic that can't help but kill civilians, since it covers an area with "dumb" bombs. The allies are able to knock out the power at will, endangering, among others, the 70 babies at Belgrade's Institute for Premature Infants. So goes the humanitarian war. You need not be a warmonger to see that Milosevic used Jackson, though the reverend seems not to know or care. That photo of Jackson holding hands in prayer with Milosevic ...