Milosevic's death and looking back on the assault against a Christian nation
Well yesterday former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his cell in the Hague. This while he was still on trial for war crimes.
What will his legacy be for Serbia and the Balkans? I really cannot say much on that issue. What I can say is that the United States and NATO were clearly wrong in launching an unprovoked war of aggression against Serbia back in 1999, while the Serbian army was waging a campaign against the terrorist KLA (an evidence shows they may have had ties to Bin Laden).
Vojin Joksimovich has written a wonderful analysis of that whole mess in his article "Kosovo: The West's Gift to Terrorists". He goes to lengths showing how the NATO bombings violated everything from NATO's own charter to even international law. And that Kosovo has not benefited much from NATO's occupation of the region, which has only allowed Albanian cartels to run wild. And Joksimovich is not alone in making these arguments.
In June 2004, Carl Meyer of G2mil gave his commentary on how we bombed the wrong side in that war. In his column dated January 26 of 1999(a few months before the bombings began) titled "Kosovo: Don't Go There", the late David Hackworth flatly stated "Kosovo belongs to Serbia...What right does Clinton have to attack an independent nation -- Serbia -- whose troops and police are fighting insurgents in their own land?"
Good question Mr. Hackworth. And Kosovo most certainly does rightfully belong to Serbia. Joksimovich states that Kosovo is "the cradle of the Serbian civilization and the site of some 1300 Serbian Orthodox religious monuments. It provides identity to the Serbian nation. It is equivalent to what Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria mean to the Jews." Kosovo was the sight of the famous battle that occurred in 1389, in which King Lazar fought against the invading Turks. If there is one historical event that defines the Serbian national identity, this is it.
This only makes it even more appalling what NATO did to Serbia, it was a direct assault on a nation's historical and religious heritage. Bob Djurdjevic described the attacks on Serbia as nothing less than an anti-Christian crusade perpetrated by a secularist globalist elite against a patriotic Christian people.
So while the media will largely try to focus on the supposed crimes conducted under the leadership of Milosevic, let us also take a hard look at the crimes conducted by those people who accuse him of such. They have blood on their hands as well, the blood of innocent people whose only crime was belonging to a Christian nation that believed in protecting its heritage.
posted by Perun at
1:25 PM
1 Comments:
I agree with this post. It's a good post. You've summarized all the essentials, leaving not much to be added. Clinton, the U.S., and NATO were wrong to attack Belgrade and that's become ever clearer since the dust has settled and the underlying issues are seen in better focus and starker contrast. The brutal ethnic cleansing of the Serbs by the Kosovar Albanians which began immediately after the NATO bombings only helped vindicate the voices that had been questioning NATO policy. And there's this: the statement by U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark( * ) to the effect that there was no place in the world for ethnically homogeneous countries, and none would be tolerated, but all countries had to become multicultural, diverse, pluralistic, or words to that effect. He explained that that was a major part of the U.S.'s "justification" for bombing Serbia. The people in the State Department (or wherever it was that those wrong, immoral, and unacceptable words were put into Gen. Clark's mouth behind the scenes) who actually believe that swill may yet live to see the day when that extreme radical left-wing view of reality is overthrown, reduced to dust, and consigned to the trash heap of history along with Fukuyama's "The End of History" and other examples of that crowd's zeal for worldwide destruction and the annihilation of all that is good, deep, meaningful, and eternal in the world. Yes, they have bitter lessons to learn, and should've kept their noses strictly out of things they didn't understand.
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(* whose bombing campaign against Belgrade was so needlessly savage, I remember how he was actually accused afterward in the U.S. press of being mentally ill and this was coming from the portion of the press that generally supported the NATO attack on Serbia, but were appalled by the unnecessary destruction Clark wrought!)
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