Kosovo Fallout - (Another Clinton Turkey Comes Home to Roost)

Before I get to the point in this commentary I want to frame it properly. In order to do that, as well as keep it short and to the point, I’ll first summarize rather briefly.

The Moslems were killing the Christians so Clinton pushed an arms embargo against them. When the Christians began killing the Moslems Clinton wouldn’t lift the embargo. He did get a man to let the Iranians know we would look the other way if they smuggled weapons into the Moslems. (It was another of the definition of ‘is’ things for which he was so well known.) This deal broker later had to fall on his sword for Caligula on the Potomac when he was nominated to run the CIA by Clinton and that deal he brokered came out. A new force was born in the region called the KLA. They were, in many cases, trained in ‘special’ camps in Afghanistan.

The KLA was a big supplier of heroin to both the western and eastern European nations. That was their source of funding. That and the numerous murders and assassination plots was why Milosovic got fed up with them. Bill Clinton allowed the Iranians to extend their influence into that region and the result was Yugoslavia running the troublemakers out.

Russia had actually started to fall apart for real and there had been a few interesting attempts internally to topple them. None of them amounted to much, but attempts they were. China was suffering from drought, and food problems were starting to emerge. In short both nations were in serious trouble. That was the case until Bill Clinton decided to get NATO to attack a Russian ally.

By the time it was over we had used a defensive force to attack a Russian ally and the people now had an external enemy causing them to unite. When we hit a Chinese Embassy during that same war the same phenomenon occurred in China. And we did all of this to help a bunch of drug dealers become legitimate leaders. This is the same war that liberals rave about with a wild-eyed ecstasy as they go on about how selfless it was. Before I continue with some of the fruit of his folly I would like to point out that they never did find the mass graves in that region. They did find a lot of them in Iraq however. The media won’t show that to you though.

The fruit of Bill’s Folly is as follows. During this time frame al-Qaeda developed some very strong ties to the Albanian Mafia, or KLA. Most of the funding for al-Qaeda is coming from opium and other types of drug sales. There are also rumblings that the Albanian Mafia has had a part in obtaining nukes for al-Qaeda. But this isn’t the only betrayal to come out of this region. It came out in an Agence France Presse release that there is a Russian defector who claims that al-Zawahari was trained by the FSB, or the new and improved KGB. I also read where al-Zawahari claimed pretty much the same thing in an Al Jazeera interview.

This is yet another example of Russia having fore knowledge and a hand in al-Qaeda’s activities. What is my point? We are at war with Russia and probably China as well. They are using third parties to do their dirty work like they always do. Russia’s KGB created Yassir Arafat and they created Osama’s second in command.

I think that we might want to handle the war on drugs in a more open and direct manner. Since drug smugglers are the primary source of funding for our enemies they should be sunk, shot down and otherwise dealt with as enemy combatants. It really is that simple. I’m tempted to add that maybe we should be treating drug users as collaborators while we’re at it, but before you go through the ceiling and cause another burn mark on your carpet don’t worry. We as a nation seem to be having a lot of difficulty seeing anything clearly any more.

Many people are inclined to blame the government for the ills we are experiencing. We elect them and we keep buying the leftist rags called newspapers, so the onus is on us, and those around us. It is time to clean up our schools while we still have the time to get a generation in this country that hasn’t been given an indoctrination instead of an education. I do see some hope though. There are a lot of volunteers in Iraq who are doing a darn good job in spite of the endless leftist attacks against them.

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http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/gw.htm (snip)

[Start Quote From Milosevic's 1989 Speech ]

Today, it is difficult to say what is the historical truth about the Battle of Kosovo and what is legend. Today this is no longer important. Oppressed by pain and filled with hope, the people used to remember and to forget, as, after all, all people in the world do, and it was ashamed of treachery and glorified heroism. Therefore it is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery. The answers to those questions will be constantly sought by science and the people. What has been certain through all the centuries until our time today is that disharmony struck Kosovo 600 years ago. If we lost the battle, then this was not only the result of social superiority and the armed advantage of the Ottoman Empire but also of the tragic disunity in the leadership of the Serbian state at that time. In that distant 1389, the Ottoman Empire was not only stronger than that of the Serbs but it was also more fortunate than the Serbian kingdom.

[End Quote From Milosevic's 1989 Speech ]

COMMENT: Is this a virulent nationalist speaking? Milosevic sounds positively *professorial*. He sounds like an academic, showing a grandfatherly understanding for the human frailties that lead people to conveniently forget things in order to make legends out of history in a romantic and nationalistic manner.

And he is talking about the famous battle at Kosovo Polje, in the very place where that battle was fought!

The truth of what happened, he says, is for scientists to establish. Is this a nationalist using a myth of the people to rouse their passions? Does he sound ‘injured’ and ‘insecure’?

TIME Magazine, perhaps the most widely-read news magazine in the world, had a similar slant:[10]

[Start Quote From TIME Magazine]

It was St. Vitus' Day, a date steeped in Serbian history, myth and eerie coincidence: on June 28, 1389, Ottoman invaders defeated the Serbs at the battle of Kosovo; 525 years later, a young Serbian nationalist assassinated Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, lighting the fuse for World War I. And it was on St. Vitus' Day, 1989, that Milosevic whipped a million Serbs into a nationalist frenzy in the speech that capped his ascent to power.

[End Quote From TIME Magazine]

And the same goes for The New York Times:[11]

[Start Quote From The New York Times]

In 1989 the Serbian strongman, Slobodan Milosevic, swooped down in a helicopter onto the field where 600 years earlier the Turks had defeated the Serbs at the Battle of Kosovo. In a fervent speech before a million Serbs, he galvanized the nationalist passions that two years later fueled the Balkan conflict.

End Quote From The New York Times]

And the Washington Post:[12]

[Start Quote From The Washington Post]

A military band and a dozen chanting monks from the Serbian Orthodox Church struggled unsuccessfully this morning to lift the dour mood hanging over a small crowd of Serbs marking the 609th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo here at the most revered site in Serbia's nationalist mythology.

(…)

Nine years ago today, Milosevic's fiery speech here to a million angry Serbs was a rallying cry for nationalism and boosted his popularity enough to make him the country's uncontested leader.

[Start Quote From The Washington Post]

And here is what National Public Radio (NPR) said about this speech, through the lips of Chuck Sudetic:[12a]

[Start Quote From National Public Radio]

Mr. SUDETIC: ...the people were whipped up into a kind of hysteria. You have to understand that the Serbs in Kosovo suffered a kind of repression, a mild kind of repression, but repression nonetheless - from 1974 until the mid to late 1980s at the hands of Albanian mafia - an Albanian Communist mafia that was in control of Kosovo. They saw their friends and neighbors depart to find better lives in Belgrade. And the people who were left behind felt themselves to be endangered by Albanians. Milosevic comes along, whips it up into a hysteria of fear...He made his speech at the Kosovo battlefield, the site of the famous battle from 1389 in 1989, on June 28th.

[End Quote From National Public Radio]

COMMENT: First of all, I apologize to loyal fans of NPR if this shatters their illusions about a favorite institution, but the above is no aberration for NPR. In fact, NPR's president is a CIA man.[12b]

Beyond this, there is the larger question of this piece: does Milosevic sound like his purpose is "whipping a million Serbs into a nationalist frenzy" with his remembrance of the events of 1389? Is this a "fervent speech" meant to "galvanize the nationalist passions"? Is it a "rallying cry for nationalism"? Could "people [be] whipped up into a kind of hysteria" with Milosevic's words?

I can't see how.

SERBIA WAS BETRAYED!

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