M. Bozinovich | Columns | Serbianna.com
Kerry’s
Dogs of War
By
M.
Bozinovich
Recent Albanian violence against the Serbs in Kosovo appears to have
been a screaming success. Aside that UNMIK has made no convictions of the
arrested Albanian suspects, the fact that NATO inflicted no reprisal to
counter its exposed military impotence leaves the Albanian militants in
a confident position that, if repeated again, the violence will drive NATO
out of Kosovo.
In fact, it appears that the Albanian
militants have also set the NATO drive-out date. "I'm not a fan of
setting dates,” said Hasim Taci, the leader of the Albanian paramilitary
in Kosovo “but if I win elections in October I will implement my vision
of Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state."
Albanian endorsement of the Kerry campaign indicates that this duplicitous
Senator has accepted the left’s coveted position of a selfless dispenser
of favors to Muslim separatists all over the world. Kerry’s prospective
foreign policy team is packed with resumes that fume with disrespect for
sovereignty of nations, wanton global militarism and a sympathetic prior
relationship with Muslim separatists in the Balkans that are now providing
safe-havens for al Qaeda terrorists.
The Choice Pool
The choice of the Secretary of State and staffing of the bureaucrats
in the State Department will be influenced, in a large measure, by Kerry’s
foreign policy adviser Rand Beers.
Political
loyalties of Rand Beers have already been tested when in 2002 he deserted
George Bush and suddenly resurfaced as his loudest critic of the Iraq war.
Although Beers never came clean why he lied under oath to protect the DynCorp
in a suit brought by Ecuadorian villagers that were sprayed by deadly toxins,
in a distinctive Balkan flavor to the conspiracies of Rand Beers, the employees
of his beloved DynCorp have been implicated in running
a sex slave operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. Moreover, on the eve of
the Albanian violence against Serbs in Kosovo in March, it was reported
that Beers was having a dinner with the Albanian militant Hasim Taci in
Washington.
More
of an experienced pragmatic, Marc Ginsberg brings to Kerry his diplomatic
experience acquired in a Muslim country (Morocco) and because of that has
already testified in the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee along with
Kosovo Albanian separatist Veton Surroi (in 2002). Speaking to the presiding
Senator Biden, himself a recipient of Albanian lobby money, Ginsberg indicated
that the US can “begin [to turn the tide in the war of ideas with the Muslim
world] by opening up lines of communication that have until now been off
limits and out of bounds by our diplomats." Presumably then, US should
grant independence to Kosovo because, there, next to Ginsberg, sat Surroi
pleading for independence by prostituting his experience with oppressive
regimes: "an independent media is crucial to building democratic institutions
where there were none.” Said Surroi. “I do think that some lessons we learned
in Kosova can be applied in the Middle East, Central and South Asia. ...
We know how to operate within a repressive system and what kind of support
is needed."
Kerry
has already tapped Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute to
craft his general foreign policy contours towards “progressive
internationalism”. As the author of “Democratic Realism: the Third
Way” Marshall argues that the “U.S.-led intervention in Kosovo” is good
because it is “a policy consciously based on a mix of moral values and
security interests with the parallel goals of halting a humanitarian tragedy
and ensuring NATO's credibility as an effective force for regional stability.”
Marshall’s wanton global militarism seeking to transpose the military business
of killing into an altruistic moral value is then polished
and marketed as an enlightened political selling point. Chants Kerry: “We
are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the
values
of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.”
Another
on Kerry’s short list for a possible chair at his foreign policy table
is Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow in foreign-policy studies at the Brookings
Institution. Along with the ethnic Croatian Ivo Daalder, O’Hanlon has a
long anti-Serbian animus veiled into an intellectual prose and dogmatic
sophistry. Claiming that the pundits of humanitarian intervention will
be disappointed, O’Hanlon argues that NATOs 1999 attack on a sovereign
country, Serbia, without a UN mandate, was a good thing and it worked because
of a threat of ground forces. “Clinton has made an important decision in
reopening the door to ground forces. We need to give the policy teeth.”
Giving teeth made Belgrade cave in and “Once Belgrade gave in, the U.N.
was given political control over Kosovo… [UN] will have the decisive role
in determining the territory’s political future [and]… the United Nations
has emerged strengthened from the war”. O’Hanlon appears to believe that
the diplomatic language of raw military power is an important catalyst
for moral virtue that also strengthens international institutions.
On
the insistence of Gephardt, O’Hanlon contacted his fellow at the Brookings
Institution, James Steinberg, who as the deputy national security adviser
for Clinton defended Wesley Clark’s insistence on attacking Serbian civilian
targets. “I did not think [Clark] was being insubordinate," declared Steinberg
although Gen. Shelton and then Defense Secretary Cohen relieved Clark from
his military post due to such Clark’s acts of insubordination. Steinberg’s
affinity to cruelty was, in fact, rather obvious when on the eve of attack
on Serbia he spoke to reporters: “I want to see the rapid economic death
of Serbia” then gave a cynically grim prospects of the Serbian democrats
that ousted Milosevic from power on October of 2000. Serbia is a “badly
fractured and demoralized society facing a tough road," exclaimed Steinberg,
never mind his contribution to that.
Another
possible Kerry foreign policy appointee is Leon Fuerth, who served as national-security
adviser to vice-president Al Gore. Perhaps the most vocal in attributing
all Balkan ills to Serbia, Fuerth is also a throwback to Berzezinski’s
foreign policy school arguing for American wanton global militarism that
will exploit ethnic conflicts as a pretexts for imperial takeovers. Fuerth
was a member of the 1992 Carnegie study group created by Ambassador Abramowitz
that formulated the new left-liberal foreign policy consensus for the post
Cold War that guided Clinton in the Balkans. Titled "Self-Determination
in the New World Order” the publication set criteria and guidelines for
diplomats to use in deciding when to support separatist ethnic groups seeking
independence, and advocated military force for that purpose. The book explicitly
advocated American takeover of OSCE and NATO as tools for escalation of
regional ethnic conflicts, as creators of military pretexts and the institutions
of American military presence aftermath. Incidentally, it was William Walker
of the OSCE that set off NATO attack on Serbia by certifying claims of
the Albanian militants that Serb police massacred Albanian civilians in
Racak.
Perhaps
the most sober among possible Kerry foreign policy appointees may be Jonathan
Winer, Kerry’s former staff counsel that investigated Bank of Credit and
Commerce International, an international bank implicated in money laundering
and support for terrorism. Testifying
before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Winer provided details
to his claims made for the Voice of America: “Affluent Muslims all over
the world were giving money for [separatist] causes… A lot of that money
went to charitable reconstruction, but a lot of that money also went for
military resistance, and there were terrorists who were recruited out of
Chechnya and Kosovo and a lot of that was funded by charitable donations.”
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of Islamic charities Kerry’s potential foreign policy wonks helped establish
in the Balkans:
Muslim Brotherhood - central role in providing ideological and technical
capacities for supporting terrorist finance in Bosnia
Muwafaq - millions of dollars to Al Qaeda for terrorist training and
resistance in Bosnia
Khalid bin Mahfouz charities - support for Islamic resistance in Albania
and Bosnia
World Muslim League - personnel worked for or with Al Qaeda in Bosnia
Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation – funneled money to al Qaeda terrorist
group by pretending the funds were going to build orphanages, Islamic schools
and mosques, had its assets seized
Benevolence International – in a Sarajevo (Bosnia) raid, FBI found a
handwritten list of 20 wealthy donors to Al Qaida, including "the bin Laden
brothers
Mohamed Galeb Kalaje Zouaydi, wealthy Muslim businessman charged with
financing the September 11 terrorist attacks, channeled 670,000 Euros to
Al Qaeda that purchased weapons from Kosovo Albanian guerrillas for bin
Laden's operations in Afghanistan
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Speaking
with Tony Snow for the FOX News, Winer characterized Albanian-dominated
Kosovo as an Islamic charity case where donated “money has been diverted.
It was diverted in Kosovo to support the soldiers in Kosovo, and from there
it went to Al Qaeda. Now that happened. There's no question that it happened.”
Balkans Under Kerry
The problem with Kerry’s foreign policy prospects is not so much that
virtually all of them have had an antagonistic relationship with Serbia,
but rather that they never question what their very own, Winer, is suggesting
their policies did in the Balkans.
Between all of moralizing and exhilarating rhetoric, it is still a fact
that only after lending support to Islamic separatists in the Balkans in
the early 1990s the terrorist threat began to emanate out of there. Spanish
have been the first victims of those gruesome policies.
Meanwhile, it is also a no surprise that the Albanian militant Taci
has set the date for NATOs expulsion out of Kosovo for times when Kerry
may replace George Bush. Albanian lobby in the US has dully endorsed Kerry
perhaps out of confidence that Kerry’s foreign policy team will advise
this Vietnam veteran to look the other way while the resurrected terrorist
outfit, Kosovo Protection Corps, cleanses the province of NATO, of Christianity,
of all non-Albanians, and plants a firmer terrorist seed in the region.
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