NATO Must Act in Kosovo (re: yesterday's arrest of Albanian terrorists in New Jersey)

Project for the New American Century / The New York Times ^ | January 29, 1999 | PNAC

[Alberta's Child]

PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY

January 29, 1999

Dear President Clinton:

Only strong action and sustained U.S. leadership can address the largest security crisis in Europe today. Serbian forces under the command of President Slobodan Milosevic are again slaughtering civilians and threatening the stability of the region, as many of the same forces did in Croatia and Bosnia. Milosevic has broken every commitment he made to the United States and NATO nearly four months ago concerning the Kosovo crisis, underscoring yet again the limits of our ability to rein in Milosevic by diplomacy alone. Rather than reducing and withdrawing his forces, Milosevic has increased and aggressively redeployed them. He has shelled and attacked unarmed OSCE monitors to whom he promised free access. And his officials are destroying evidence of recent atrocities, such as the summary execution of more than 45 ethnic Albanians at Racak, and are otherwise impeding the investigations of the International War Crimes Tribunal.

We believe the following actions are essential:

• NATO should use air power as necessary to compel the remocal of Serbian forces used to attack and repress the civilian population and prepare the way for the introduction of NATO ground troops. Only a NATO ground presence can prevent the return of those forces, the growth of radical Albanian nationalism and spread of war in southeastern Europe. Only NATO troops can shield humanitarian aid workers and the civilian monitors, including hundreds of Americans, who otherwise risk becoming hostages of Serbian forces.

• Implement a three-year cooling-off period by imposing an interim political settlement that restors pre-1989 self-government for Kosovo within a democratic federal framework. Use the interim period to reestablish civilian institutions, return hundreds of thousands of refugees to their homes, restore regional stability, and prepare for a referendum in Kosovo on final status after three years.

Mr. President, all eyes are turned to Washington. Only forceful U.S. leadership can stop Milosevic from continuing with this new round of ethnic cleansing. As a newly expanded NATO approaches its 50th anniversary in Washington, the savagery in Kosovo endangers more than civilian life and regional stability. It threatens the interests of the United States, the credibility of NATO and the gains we have achieved in Bosnia.

Sincerely,

Morton I. Abramowitz
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Richard Burt
Frank Carlucci
Bob Dole
Philip Kaiser
Max M. Kampelman
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Peter Kovler
William Kristol
Mel Levine
William E. Odoom
Wayne Owens
Richard Perle
Eugene Rostow
Stephen Solarz
Helmut Sommenfeldt
William Howard Taft IV
Vin Weber
Caspar Weinberger
R. James Woolsey

[Alberta's Child]

For all Freepers out there who have rightly criticized the Clinton administration for committing U.S. military forces to Kosovo back in 1999 on behalf of Albanian Muslims in Kosovo, it's worth noting that the Clinton administration had plenty of support from many of the same "neo-conservatives" who have been such ardent cheerleaders for our nation-building nonsense in Iraq over the last five years. The letter I've posted here was published in the NY Times as an open letter to Bill Clinton from the neo-con "think tank" Project for a New American Century. There are some interesting names there, and maybe it's about time we questioned the agenda of anyone who advocates military campaigns halfway around the world in a so-called "war on terror" while at the same time supporting radical Muslims in Kosovo against a nominally Christian dictator.

A similar letter from PNAC calling for the overthrow of Milosevic was published in the NY Times in September of 1998. Noted signatories of that letter included such renowned empire-building globalists as Elliott Abrams, Richard Armitage, John Bolton, Robert Kagan and Paul Wolfowitz.

As far as I'm concerned, this so-called "War on Terror" is a lot of nonsense.

[Alberta's Child]

Ping.

[3AngelaD]

All the usual suspects. The Serbs are not paragons of virtue, but it was, is and will be a huge mistake to continue supporting the Muslims there. And look how the Albanians we protected are repaying us. We are setting up a dangerous jihad launching pad in eastern Europe. The Russians have good reason oppose this, because it is right on their doorstep. I hate to say it, but my country is wrong on this and the Russians are right. You are absolutely right in that Clinton had all kinds of support at the time for this, from many Republicans in Congress. When it all started, Bob Dole was Majority Leader.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Well said. It is also worth mentioning that Bush supported Clinton’s intervention at the time and has continue the Clinton policy there since he left office. He was obviously listening to the same neocon advisors who helped get us stuck in the Iraq quagmire.

[jeddavis]

Sorry, but I fail to see the analogy between Iraq and Kosovo. Kosovo was simple, all we had to do was ignore it. George Bush didn’t have a whole lot of simple or good options sitting around after Saddam Hussein poisoned the United States Senate office building with anthrax. That’s the kind of **** which you cannot let anybody get away with.

[Alberta's Child]

George Bush didn’t have a whole lot of simple or good options sitting around after Saddam Hussein poisoned the United States Senate office building with anthrax. That’s the kind of **** which you cannot let anybody get away with.

I would agree with you 100% on this one. If you have any evidence to support this statement, then please share it with us.

And if what you've stated is true, then I'd also ask one simple question:

Why hasn't anyone in the Bush administration made this information public -- particularly in response to opponents (Democrats and others) of the war, and as part of the formal U.S. presentation to the U.N. Security Council back in early 2003?

[eureka!]

Again, I see your point. As I recall, Slobo was an admitted thug whose strong-arming tactics got our NATO allies panties in a wad. I personally was opposed to the Kosovo intervention because I could see that the facts were being twisted so as to justify the alleged "war". At that time, I along with a number of other Freepers also saw that once the decision was made, the KLA was delisted as a terrorist organization by Madeleine Albright's State Department. As per usual, the media did not care and we bombed the snot out of the civilian infrastructure of Serbia, our former World War II allies. I would be interested in knowing if any of these signatories to this letter you cite had any observations in this regard.

Additionally, at this point in time, there were very few that recognize the Islamist threat that culminated in 9/11. Lastly, to state there is no "war on terror" based on this is less than genuine. For one may not like the way it is being waged due to self-imposed constraints is a bona fide gripe, however, the war is being waged. Richard Miniter is an author I would commend to you in this regard....

[tgambill]

Iraq and Kosovo go hand in hand under the same agenda for the New World Order.

The link between the Muh. in Afghanistan fighting the Russians are the same ones we used to invade Bosnia to Kosovo, lying about the ethnic cleansing. Al Qaeda members were taken from the Muh coming from Afghanistan...and were the cream of the crop and shall we say, highly trained to continue operations.

There is about one nickel’s difference between the Democrats and Republicans on a higher level when it comes to the NWO agenda. Milosevic, like Castro, Saddam, was a CIA asset. Milosevic may have departed from his recruitment in New York during the late 80’s while he was in New York. He was there as an understudy of allegedly being a banker. Upon his return to Serbia, he was to go into politics. Then, we stirred up Bosnia and exaggerated about Srebrenica.....et al....The war on Terror is designed to bring us into the New World Order.........Lets imagine for a moment...that the Ft Dix “operation” closely followed the Virginia Tech murders. One shooter, 32 dead....this entire scenario, both events, smells real real bad....

http://www.savekosovo.org/default.asp?p=4&leader=0&sp=276

http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/index.html

http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/index.html

[DemEater]

“George Bush didn’t have a whole lot of simple or good options sitting around after Saddam Hussein poisoned the United States Senate office building with anthrax.”

I hope you share your evidence with the FBI.

[Alberta's Child]

If you want a real eye-opener, do an internet search on the background of a group called the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (they used to be called the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, and I suspect they changed the name when they started to get some unfavorable attention after the Beslan massacre). ACPC has actually sided with the Chechen separatists against the Russian government, and -- get this -- of all the names listed below that I've posted on this thread with regard to Kosovo, the ones in red bold text also appear on the ACPC membership list.

Morton I. Abramowitz
Elliott Abrams
Richard Armitage
John Bolton
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Richard Burt
Frank Carlucci
Bob Dole
Philip Kaiser
Robert Kagan
Max M. Kampelman
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Peter Kovler
William Kristol
Mel Levine
William E. Odom
Wayne Owens
Richard Perle
Eugene Rostow
Stephen Solarz
Helmut Sommenfeldt
William Howard Taft IV
Vin Weber
Caspar Weinberger
Paul Wolfowitz
R. James Woolsey

HEY -- DOES ANYONE THINK THIS IS JUST A COINCIDENCE, OR WHAT?!

[eureka!]

Thanks for the info...

[MinnesotaLibertarian]

A lot of Jewish names there...you anti-Semite. Don’t you know that anybody who opposes our “mission” in Iraq hates Jews?

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