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"MISSION CREEP," "STEALTH WAR," SEEN
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(CNNS, 04/07/99) -- "Creeping gradualism" is the typical U.S.
*modus operandi*. For example: the constant whittling away of
civil liberties here in the U.S., under the guise of the failed
"War on Drugs." Some compare this tactic of creeping gradualism
to frogs being slowly boiled: if you drop a frog into boiling
water, the frog will jump out; but if you put the frog in water
and gradually raise the heat, the frog will be boiled alive. The
key to sneaky success in planned operations, knows Washington,
DC, is to be gradual about it.
So it is significant that a press release from the Serb Unity
Congress warns that
This is war by stealth. The Congress and American people
are being led along a series of incremental steps to a
final fait accompli of war. This does grave damage to the
U.S. constitution which vests authority to declare war in
Congress and Congress alone. [1]
First there's bombs and missiles only. Then there's Apache
Attack Helicopters. Then you need a few "observers" on the
ground. (Promises Bill Clinton: "They are there acting only as
observers.")
A few observers here, a few observers there, and before you know
it we're talking about real war.
In Vietnam, in the early 1960s, it began much the same: with a
small number of "observers." Back then, the propaganda was that
we were in Vietnam to prevent a "domino effect." Supposedly, if
Vietnam went communist that would lead to all of Southeast Asia
falling into the communist camp; the surrounding countries would
fall like dominoes. (But then-Secretary of Defense Bob McNamara
later admitted that, by the mid-to-late 1960s, U.S. leaders were
no longer sure why exactly we were at war in Vietnam.)
It's "deja vu all over again." Secretary of State Madeline
Albright says that if we lose Kosovo, instability will spread
throughout Europe. Pentagon brass are critical. They have
"challenged the 'domino theory' put forth by Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright..." [2]
According to Arianna Huffington, Her Ladyship Albright is the
spiritual patron of the escalating international war in
Yugoslavia. "The Balkans have always been Albright's special
project," says Huffington. "Everyone in Albright's circle is
very conscious of how anxious she has been to have a victory to
call her own. Instead, she now has a calamity to call her own."
Albright's fanatical tenacity caused her to disregard warnings
from the CIA about the terrible repercussions likely to follow
the implementation of her bombing mania, writes Huffington. "So
blinkered was her vision that all warnings by the CIA about
Serbian retaliations were ignored." [3]
Privately, the U.S. government remains deeply divided over the
wisdom of U.S. attacks on Yugoslavia. Several reports, including
one by the Washington Post, indicate that the U.S. military has
serious misgivings. But they, under the military code, are
hindered from speaking out openly against their
Commander-in-Chief, Bill Clinton. And politicians skeptical
about U.S. involvement in the Balkan tinderbox mostly adhere to
the truism that "politics should stop at the water's edge." But,
reports UPI, many in Congress "remain leery." [4]
"The President is standing alone on a lot of this... He's
finding fewer and fewer people who are willing to stick with him
over Kosovo. He's backed himself, his administration and his
country into a corner," reportedly says one White House aide.
[5]
Internationally, many countries are also leery. "Lebanon's Prime
Minister Selim Hoss says the mass exodus from Kosovo is clear
proof of the failure of NATO's military operations against
Yugoslavia." [6] Israel's foreign minister worries about the
threat of a Moslem state of Kosovo. [7] Greece and Italy have
urged a cease fire.
Darker nuances associated with the Balkan Blow-up hint that the
growing disaster comes from yet another CIA project gone awry.
In Zaire, in late-1960, the CIA engineered the murder of Prime
Minister Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba was replaced by the
CIA-friendly Joseph Mobutu. "The lure of [Zaire's] vast mineral
resources led the CIA into a marriage of convenience with him"
[8].
But not all CIA covert projects have such "happy endings." The
CIA's man in Panama, Manuel Noriega, got along quite well with
the U.S. ruling class, for years. But when Noriega began to defy
Washington's anti-Sandinista mandate, the USA mass media went
into high-gear and Noriega became an instant demon. This
propaganda saturation by the USA mass media was the prelude to
U.S. invasion of Panama and the kidnapping of Noriega. [9]
According to Sherman Skolnick, head of the public interest
research group, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
"There is strong reason to believe [Slobodan] Milosevic was
installed in the late 1980s by the American CIA. Like other
Frankenstein monsters, he appears to have turned on his
creators..."
An article by Workers World News Service, written a year ago,
supports the existence of darker nuances lurking behind the
American press magic lantern show, "Operation 'Crisis in
Kosovo.'" In "Is there a CIA war in Kosovo," Gary Wilson writes,
in part, that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) "is a foreign
mercenary army in the pay of the Western imperialist powers...
The KLA did not exist until recently. It became active only in
the last few months." Quoting a New York Times report, Wilson
asserts that most members of the KLA are *Germans*! "All the
funds for the mercenary army come from abroad, primarily from the
United States, reported the May 26 Washington Post." [10]
The KLA, like Noriega before them, are connected with the mega
industry, Dope, Incorporated (as is the CIA. See, e.g., books:
*The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia*, by Alfred McCoy;
*Cocaine Politics* by Peter Dale Scott.)
Then there is the Chinese connection. "Starting in 1993, the
Croats and Bosnians suddenly acquired loads of Chinese made
artillery and anti-tank rockets. The new arms arrived in Bosnia
on Iranian C-130 cargo planes, in violation of the NATO embargo.
The Iranian arms shipments were credited with stopping a major
Serbian offensive, and costing [Slobodan] Milosevic victory in
the long war." [11]
So there's an intriguing China to Iran to Yugoslavia angle to the
current Balkan mess. Add to that what Clinton nemesis Larry
Nichols has to say. According to Nichols, "fears over expected
Chinagate bombshells in the soon-to-be released Cox report" were
what "prompted Clinton to order 'bombs away' over Belgrade."
Says Nichols: "They expected the Cox report to come out the next
Wednesday, and they needed something big." [12]
It appears from all the above that the escalating Balkan
nightmare has been long-planned, but that its sudden upheaval may
have been due to Bill Clinton's personal political concerns.
Maybe there is a behind-the-scenes battle between some in CIA,
who wanted to do things their way, and Clinton/Albright: Clinton
favoring a bomb blitz to divert attention from home-grown
scandals; Albright favoring "bombs away" due to single-minded
obsession.
---------------------------<< Notes >>---------------------------
[1] "Serbian Unity Congress Condemns Calls For American Ground
Troops in Kososvo," 4/1/99.
[2] "Clinton downplays Pentagon disagreement." UPI, 4/5/99.
[3] "Madeline Albright: The Spiritual Patron Of The Disaster In
Kosovo," by Arianna Huffington. 4/1/99.
[4] "Washington still divided over Kosovo," by Jennifer Brooks.
UPI, 4/3/99.
[5] "Clinton willing to risk global war in desperate attempt to
redefine legacy," by Doug Thompson. Capitol Hill Blue, ca.
4/6/99.
[6] "Lebanon sees NATO failure in Kosovo." UPI, 4/5/99.
[7] "Netanyahu backs away from FM statement on Islamic threat in
Kosovo." Agence France-Presse, 4/6/99.
[8] *The CIA's Greatest Hits* by Mark Zepezauer. (Tucson:
Odonian Press, 1994. ISBN: 1-878825-30-5.)
[9] Ibid.
[10] "Is there a CIA war in Kosovo?" by Gary Wilson. Workers
World News Service, 3/19/98.
[11] Report by World Net Daily, 4/6/99.
[12] "White House Doves Turn to Hillary." NewsMax, 4/5/99.
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