-Caveat Lector-
Apparently the Kurds and Timorese --unlike the Albanians of Kosovo--
don't have enough "market share" in the NWO's underground economy to merit
our attention ...
Cohen Warns on U.S. Intervention
By ROBERT BURNS
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States should not commit troops in every
international crisis that ``catches our eye and emotion,'' Defense Secretary
William Cohen said in remarks that suggested an inclination not to intervene
militarily in East Timor.
In a speech prepared for delivery Thursday night to the International
Institute for Strategic Studies in Coronado, Calif., Cohen made no mention of
the crisis in East Timor, where violence triggered by an independence vote
has forced more than 200,000 people to flee their homeland.
Focusing on lessons learned from the Kosovo conflict, Cohen said the United
States and its NATO allies were right to intervene in Kosovo to end Serb
repression, but the experience underscored that intervention is not the
answer in every crisis.
``Among the enduring lessons of this and every conflict is that we must
resist the temptation to use our forces in every dispute that catches our eye
and emotion,'' Cohen said in his prepared remarks. An advance copy of his
speech was made available to reporters at the Pentagon.
Cohen said the 78-day NATO air war against Yugoslavia showed the changing
nature of warfare and political conflict, saying it highlighted a
``superpower paradox'': U.S. supremacy in conventional military power is
prompting adversaries to develop unconventional methods of warfare.
For example, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic used ``rape, pillage and
slaughter'' as a military tactic, Cohen said. By expelling hundreds of
thousands of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and killing many others, Milosevic
created a humanitarian crisis as a combat strategy, he said.
Cohen said Americans must answer several basic questions before deciding
whether it is right to intervene militarily in an international crisis like
Kosovo. Among those questions are whether the vital interests of the United
States or its allies are directly threatened and whether ``the wheel of
conflict, if allowed to spin on its violent axis'' will draw other nations
into its vortex at ever greater cost.
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