[Peace-discuss] NATO's Kosovo Colony

[C. G. Estabrook]

CP also ran a good companion piece on Kosovo and US policy: Gary Leupp,
"The Independence of Kosovo" http://counterpunch.org/leupp02192008.html
-- which contains the following graf:

"...Quite likely more Serbs have been killed by Albanians than vice 
versa since 1998. The 'genocide' charge (reminiscent of the rhetoric of 
those urging U.S. intervention in Darfur) had been exaggerated, if not 
contrived; the depiction of Milosevic as a 'new Hitler' (reminiscent of 
the hysterical characterization of Saddam Hussein) equally overblown.
Washington got what it wanted, almost. It destroyed the Yugoslav state, 
hauled Milosevic to a kangaroo court at the Hague (where after enhancing 
his reputation among Serbs by a spirited defense, he died of a heart 
attack), and planted NATO in what had once been proudly nonaligned 
European territory..."


Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> Just another manifestation of U.S. imperialism…"independent Kosovo", 
> supported by our mass media. 
> 
> See Diana Johnstones illuminating, if long, article 
> at http://www.counterpunch.org/johnstone02182008.html
> 
> It starts out:
> 
> /Across this last weekend, the Western propaganda machine was working 
> overtime, celebrating the latest NATO miracle: the transformation of 
> Serbian Kosovo into Albanian Kosova. A shameless land grab by the United 
> States, which used the Kosovo problem to install an enormous military 
> base (Camp Bondsteel) on other people's strategically located land, is 
> transformed by the power of the media into an edifying legend of 
> "national liberation"./
> 
> /For the unhappy few who know the complicated truth about Kosovo, the 
> words of Aldous Huxley seem most appropriate: "You shall know the truth, 
> and the truth shall drive you mad."…/
> 
> /…I turn again to Aldous Huxley for comfort: "Facts do not cease to 
> exist because they are ignored."/
> /
> /
> /But Huxley also said: "Great is truth, but still greater, from a 
> practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not 
> mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have 
> influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the 
> most eloquent denunciations."/
> 
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