-Caveat Lector- > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> > Kwick Pick opens locked car doors, > front doors, drawers, briefcases, > padlocks, and more. On sale now! > http://us.click.yahoo.com/ehaLqB/Fg5DAA/ySSFAA/kYOolB/TM > ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > April 1, 2002 > > Letter to the Editor > > THE WASHINGTON POST--OPINION > > Re: Rebuilding Nations . . . By Richard Holbrooke > > Dear Editor, > > Is this Opinion piece an April Fool's joke? > > It will cost the American taxpayers $100 billion to rebuild Afghanistan > and most Americans simply will not tolerate the rape on our treasury > with such stupidity. Holbrooke's "nation building" in the Balkans has > created an ethnically pure Slovenia, an ethnically pure Croatia, an > ethnically pure Kosovo and an ethnically divided Bosnia. Wow, what a > success! > > Bosnia and the Dayton Agreement is also a failure. Holbrooke's lack of > conscience simply ignores the current 1.2 million Serbian refugees from > the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, the vast majority of whom have > been prevented from returning to their homes or property. Holbrooke's > ideas at Dayton included the clause, "all foreign mercenaries must leave > Bosnia." The Pentagon did not insist on enforcing this clause and over > a thousand of these Osama bin Laden terrorist remained behind. Given > Bosnian brides and citizenship these terrorists went on to foment > violence in Kosovo and now Macedonia. After September 11th American > foreign policy now insists on catching these terrorists and prosecuting > them. The double standards of our "nation building" stinks--so does our > foreign policy that guarantees that 40,000 Serbian victims do not > deserve any justice in these wars. > > Before the war in Kosovo the Serb minority represented 20%; now it is > less than 2%. The remaining Serbs live behind barbed wire in a ghetto, > protected by KFOR troops. Over 110 ancient Serbian churches have been > destroyed since the arrival of KFOR; over 2 million Serbian books have > been burned and a thousand Serbs have gone missing. Kosovo has become > the cesspool of Europe, the prostitution capital on the continent and > the major source for human trafficking, gun running and drug smuggling. > If Richard Holbrooke is proud of his "successful nation building" then > every American better hold their nose when rebuilding Afghanistan. > > William Dorich > Los Angeles > > The writer is the author of 5 books on the Balkans including the 1992 > book Kosovo, one of the first books published in the U.S. on this region > of the world. >
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