Posted on 02/28/2008 1:08:26 PM PST by kronos77
When television showed the burning American Embassy in Belgrade and crawling APCs (carrying Serbian policemen who had no desire to disperse Serbs with Molotov's cocktails), I wondered how soon will the Americans recall international law and the Vienna Convention, which safeguards the immunity of diplomats and embassies? They were very quick.
But an appeal by Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns to the Serbs to respect international law sounded somewhat ridiculous. What is he talking about? He and his colleagues violated it themselves last Monday by recognizing Kosovo's independence.
It is strange to hear words of indignation when the situation developed exactly the way he wanted it to. Okay, let's agree that Kosovo is a unique case. The burning of the embassy is a unique reply to Kosovo's unique independence. There is no need to draw any parallels or get worried. This exception will not spread to other parts of the world - other embassies cannot be burned, and this case is truly unique.
Let's repeat this idea once again. Having taken part in the annexation of part of a sovereign state, the United States is angry that someone wanted to occupy or even burn down part of its own territory - the embassy. The Department of State has justifiably appealed to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. But what about the UN Charter, which guarantees territorial integrity of sovereign states? Having recognized Kosovo's independence, Washington has openly violated Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity. So, why is it angry at a Serbian student who did a similar thing to the U.S. Embassy? Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
(Excerpt) Read more at mnweekly.ru ...
It wasn’t a quandry before we backed a Muslim terrorist state in the Balkans, was it? As usual when we help Muslims, we will rue the day.
"The Kosovo-Albanians have played us like a Stradivarius. We have subsidized and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an ethnically pure and independent Kosovo.We have never blamed them for being the perpetrators of the violence in the early '90s and we continue to portray them as the designated victim today in spite of evidence to the contrary. When they achieve independence with the help of our tax dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just consider the message of encouragement this sends to other terrorist-supported independence movements around the world. Funny how we just keep digging the hole deeper!"—Maj-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie
Before you get completely obsessed over Lewis MacKenzie’s comment, know this:
“Investigative reporter Roy Gutman of ‘Newsday’ revealed Mackenzie had been quietly paid US $15,000 by Serbnet, a US Serb propaganda group, to deliver a series of speeches spreading this disinformation - which delayed American intervention and, I believe, prolonged the slaughter in Bosnia. With charming naivete, Mackenzie claimed he didn’t know who was paying him to travel and give speeches.
The UN report on Bosnia sharply criticizes those who urged inaction in the face of ‘the attempted genocide in Bosnia,’ and negotiations instead of employing force early in the war. It condemns the UN’s bias in remaining neutral in the face of evil - just what this column long maintained during the Bosnian conflict. Canada was so enraptured by the process of peacekeeping, it refused to distinguish between mass murderers and their victims. MacKenzie’s by now notorious ‘serial murderers’ line became the slogan for this morally twisted policy.
It was Lewis MacKenzie, not the US and NATO, that mislead - and continues to mislead - the public over Bosnia or Kosovo. Had NATO not intervened in Kosovo, it would have become a second Bosnia.”
- Eric Margolis
http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/1999/11/index.php
He gets speaker’s fees for telling the truth and it ticks off the Soros-funded Dhimmi stooges.
God bless Lewis MacKenzie!
CONFIRMED: Gutman is on Soros’ payroll!
http://www.soros.org/resources/events/ten_20050707
Caught you in your lie, Muhammedan! So much for your falsehoods proving ANYTHING about Lewis MacKenzie! LOL!
$15,000 is all it took to buy off MacKenzie?
He sold himself out cheap.
Gutman got a lot more from Soros to lie about MacKenzie.
Nothing to see here folks, just another Muhammedan trying to lie to the infidel!
Since MacKenzie likes to shill the Serbian Nazis’ lies, perhaps he should henceforth be called “Lord Haw-Haw”.
Soros’ anti-Christian lies exposed again!
In view of your prose, I'm wondering if you received your training from Ronly Bonly Jones?...Just wondering.
Translation: Lawlessness is OK if it's your lawlessness.
Moscow news. HAHAHAHA
Maybe he IS ronly-bonly!!!!
Playing the semantics game are you Rexhep? No nation has the right to illegally violate another’s sovereignty, so have our Albanian misfits go back to whence they came, Albania.
Yeah Serbian Nazis... who was it again that had an SS Division created just for them? I forget.
Well, no he's not, but he's behaving right along the lines of Ronly Bonly Jones.
That is, and as TigersEye pointed out, he's preying on well intended Freepers that lack a background on Balkan issues.
Fortunately, most freepers are smart enough to see through that Goebel's inspired tripe.
Goebel’s = Geobbels
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