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> DEFENDING AMERICA
> David H. Hackworth
> June 7, 1999
>
> DEFANG THE KLA TODAY OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
>
> Some of the same Whiz Kids who helped put our country into the Serbian
> frying pan are continuing to spin out harebrained schemes, trying to
> improve on their burnt offering. Sources say these Ivy college
> airheads are now chewing on the idea that the United States should
> quietly train, arm and equip the Kosovo Liberation Army.
>
> Arming the KLA would be like providing Special Forces demolition
> training to any remaining members of Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh's
> terrorist gang. In February 1998, Robert Gelbard, Clinton's envoy for
> Kosovo, said that the KLA "is, without any questions, a terrorist
> group." Intelligence folks say Gelbard's assessment is dead on the
> money. The KLA's leadership and ranks are filled with radicals,
> Islamic crazies and heavy haters who are as responsible as Milosevic's
> worst thugs for thecatastrophe visited on the tormented people of
> Yugoslavia.
>
> International cops say the KLA includes global drug dealers and arms
> smugglers who've been in bed with the Albanian Mafia for years. The
> lawmen report that profits from these shady deals armed the KLA and
> financed their guerrilla attacks on the Serbian police, military and
> the residents of Kosovo - terrorist assaults that along with Serbian
> brutality certainly helped trigger the shootout in Yugoslavia in the
> first place.
>
> Intelligence reports that some KLA members were trained by
> international bomber Osama bin Laden's outfit and that radical members
> of the KLA, which is now trying to pose as a legitimate army, have
> sworn they'll go down shooting rather than give up their guns.
>
> Recently Croatian General Agim Ceku became the head of the KLA. While
> with the Croatian Army, his killing skills were spiffed up by the U.S.
> mercenary group Military Professional Resources Inc. - a
> rent-an-American-soldier enterprise led by a cash-starved retired U.S.
> Army four-star general.
>
> In 1995, Gen. Ceku was a player in Operation Storm, a covert
> Clinton-backed and MPRI-trained Croatian military operation that
> ethnically cleansed 200,000 Serbs from their homes in Croatia, killing
> thousands of civilians.
>
> Since taking over the KLA, Ceku has purged all of its moderates. If a
> KLA member was a supporter of Ibrahim Rugova, the exiled "president"
> of Kosovo who for the past decade has pursued a Gandhi-like
> nonviolence policy in the troubled province, he was toast. Rugova's
> peaceful approach is not welcomed by a KLA that's into violently
> overthrowing the Serbia regime in Kosovo.
>
> On the Kosovo battlefield, the KLA has been clobbered by the more
> heavily armed Serbs in every major fight - even though NATO functioned
> as its dedicated air force.
>
> During the latter phase of the war, the KLA's operations have been
> reduced to small teams operating as snipers, conducting ambushes and
> spotting for NATO bombers. These fumbling greenhorns aren't capable of
> more complex tasks because the KLA is more of a mob than a trained
> fighting unit. While they have a lot of warm bodies, perhaps as many
> as 17,000, they have few savvy leaders and their ranks are filled
> mainly with recruits. Untrained recruits augmented with cutthroats
> don't make an army. Only well-led, well- trained, well-equipped and
> well-disciplined soldiers can be molded into effective fighting teams.
> And this is not done with a wave of a magic wand. It takes about ten
> years of sweat and hard work to organize, train and field an effective
> Army from the get-go.
>
> Contrary to the Whiz Kids' schemes and dreams, there's no such thing
> as an instant army.
>
> Short-term solutions frequently backfire. U.S. Marines and U.S. Army
> soldiers who'll walk the dangerous peacekeeping beat in Kosovo
> shouldn't have American-trained-and-armed terrorists attacking them
> from the shadows.
>
> Once again, as with the 1990s Afghanistan War, we may find ourselves
> relearning the hard lesson that yesterday's freedom fighters can
> easily become tomorrow's terrorists. America has a long history of
> training and arming the Manuel Noriegas and Saddam Husseins only to
> have their soldiers kill ours when they're no longer our favorite
> thugs.
>
> So the civilian lap top commandos must stop playing Oliver North and
> give up on the wrongheaded idea of supporting the KLA on the sly.
>
> Secret armies composed of wild-eyed thugs and idealistic kids don't
> work. The KLA must be disarmed, or American peacekeepers will pay a
> price in the minefields of Kosovo.
>
> The end.
>
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