Those of us old enough to remember the Vietnam war will recall the claim of the U.S. military at the time that they were going to win that war by bombing the North Vietnamese back into the stone age.
It failed.
When that did not work, the spraying of the jungle with Agent Orange was going to do the trick.
It didn't.
"Increasing the advisors" in South Vietnam to massive ground troop deployment was going to bring victory over the Viet Cong.
Mistake.
Then tens of thousands of people were uprooted and relocated in "strategoc hamlets" or military forts, protected by heavily armed Montagnard tribesmen.
It was a bad idea.
Then the invasion of Cambodia, the carpet bombing of the North by B-52s, and finally the mining of Northern harbors were going to subdue the recalcitrant North Vietnamese.
Did it work?
Nothing worked! That war was wrong - and thus it was lost, regardless of superior fire power and technology!
The war in Serbia is wrong. It was similarly ill-conceived, and it is being fought for fake or false reasons.
Can it be won militarily? Certainly. Will it be won? That remains to be seen.
If it is won - then, at what cost? And, really, what for? For Balkan drug traders and war lords? To prop up the idea of multi-culturalism as the wave of the future?
In a May 5, 1999 Associated Press article titled "Targets mistakenly hit by NATO", we read the following:
April 5: A residential area in the Serbian mining town of Aleksinac is attacked. 17 people killed.
April 9: A bomb intended for the main telephone exchange falls into a residential area instead. Casualties unknown.
April 12: A strike on a railroad bridge inadvertently hits a passenger train. 17 people killed.
April 14: A refugee convoy is mistaken as a military target. 75 people killed.
April 27: A missile strikes a housing area in the Serb town of Surdulica. 20 civilians killed.
April 28: A missile hits a private home - not in Serbia but in Bulgaria. Casualties unknown.
May 1: A missile strikes a bus crossing a bridge. 47 people killed.
May 7: A missile hits marketplace and hospital in city of Nis. 15 people killed.
Same day:
A missile hits Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. 3 Chinese journalists killed.
Now imagine this headline - and ask yourself if you ever dreamed that you would see it in a major paper such as the Toronto Star, May 11:
"Nato bombs destroying New World Order - Gorbachev"!
I quote from that article selectively:
"MOSCOW (CP) - Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev says NATO's war against Yugoslavia is a sign of collapsing global order, and it never would have been allowed to happen if the Soviet Union still existed.
"Russia has lost its former position and ability to influence events, and therefore was unable to prevent this war from occurring in the first place,'' Gorbachev said Tuesday."
"This war is a disgrace to all of us who tried to build a new world order based on political methods and a strong role for the United Nations Security Council."
"Instead we see NATO imposing itself as supreme arbiter, using military power alone."
"But the situation only became dramatic when NATO set aside the political process and turned to bombing,'' (Gorbachev) said. "This in turn gave the Yugoslav forces the green light to strike hard against the Albanians, and turned Kosovo into a ruin."
"Nothing good has been accomplished, only destruction and chaos".
"He says that as the Cold War was winding down 10 years ago he and western leaders discussed a new global security order that would be founded on law and supervised by the UN Security Council."
"But the Soviet Union fell apart and the West tried to unilaterally impose its own writ upon the world, he said."
"'At the root of this is the United States' ambitions to dominate the world,'" he said."
"Two-thirds of the world's raw power, concentrated in NATO, is attacking one tiny country."
What are the warlords of the New World Order trying to accomplish? During World War II, one tiny country fought against a total of 51 countries for six long, bloody years - and for much the same reasons, it seems. that Serbia is fighting: The right to fashion their lives and shape their institutions, to formulate their own rules and regulations as well as policies according to their own cultural traditions and needs, not the needs of liberal pipe dreamers and one-world globalists!
"Last weekend's accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade shows the situation is spinning out of control," said Gorbachev. "NATO is hitting everywhere, not only the Chinese Embassy. . . . It is pure lawlessness . . .''
Meanwhile, according to a UPI special release, dated May 11,
". . . Chinese movie theatres have scrapped plans to show the award-winning "Saving Private Ryan," replacing the movie with patriotic films of Chinese soldiers fighting U.S. troopos in the Korean War. Chinese television and radio stations have pulled U.S. films and music off the airwaves as part of a backlash against the United States over the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade."
While the Chinese are rallying around their ethnic and cultural roots, what does a country like Germany do?
Reported by a Reuters article dated May 6,
"The New York State Banking Department on Thursday approved a more than $10.1 billion merger between Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust, after a review that included examining how Germany's biggest bank was handling Holocaust issues, a banking spokesman said."
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Human Rights Watch said (some) bombs are particularly dangerous because of their appearance. Some are bright yellow soda can-sized objects; others are bright spheres the size of tennis balls -- making children particularly drawn to them."
(Sent to the Zundelsite)
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