| Your accusing me of not answering your stupid questions ("prove that Americans are gullible!") is not hypocritical, it really is the pot calling the kettle black! Here are again solid and pertinent points which you failed to counter. You will not get away with it. Answer:
-Kosovo alone has the richest mineral resources in all of Europe west of Russia.
-"A number of unofficial partition plans have been drawn up for Kosovo all raising the question of who would control an important northern mining region," the New York Times revealed.
-Since the bombing has ended, numerous US bases in the Balkans have been set up. A military base is being built in Kosovo, described as the largest US foreign base built since the Vietnam War.
"Behind the propaganda of a humanitarian war, U.S./NATO bases have been constructed in
Albania, Croatia, Bosnia, Hungary, Macedonia, and Kosovo. The Balkans, a region of
enormous strategic importance, rich natural resources and important industrial capacity is now occupied by thousands of US troops. All this has happened without any informed debate or discussion." -- Sara Flounders, Censored 2000, (Seven Stories, 2000) p. 44
-We have all been told that before the bombing began, all the diplomatic efforts did not yield
any silver linings. What has not been mentioned in much detail is that Milosevic in fact did
suggest that he would consider a UN or other, non-NATO force, but for the US, this was not
the silver-lining that the US wanted.
-Furthermore, with the bombing of Serbia being mainly destruction of civilian infrastructure (not military, I insist), we see this pattern throughout history that Smith has also detailed of plundering the "periphery" by destroying their means of production and crippling their economic capabilities preventing future development and being dependent upon the conquerors
-A leaked version of the Pentagon's 1994-1999 Defense Planning Guidance report advises that the United States "must seek to prevent the emergence of European-only security arrangements which would undermine NATO. Therefore, it is of fundamental importance to preserve NATO as the primary instrument of Western defense and security, as well as the channel for U.S. influence and participation in European security affairs.". This is setting a pretty serious precedent -- even though perhaps there may have been better options available, the US did not want to consider them, because it wanted to have a (leading) role in Europe's security affairs and keep Europe dependent on it.
Malrait |
