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Posted August 17, 2001
Bored with the Balkans
I
ran across [Nebojsa Malic's] article, "Murdering
Macedonia" and my reaction was, "Not again" (yawn).
I gather the "empire"
you are talking about is NATO, which usually means USA.
I
want you to know I am not interested [in] what happens in the Balkans.
We were lied to and deceived to bring us into that mess and now we are
being blamed for it. Underneath it all, the EU is masterminding this
"unrest" and will continue to [do so] until it controls Tirana
and the eastern Mediterranean. Why didn't you Balkans go to the EU to
start with? You are in Europe, why demand US intervention only to turn
on us and endanger our troops?
You
might as well skip the political maneuvering and deal directly with
Germany, that is who the masters will be and their hope is to weaken
the US so no one can stand in their way to "Empire" – as
in Holy
Roman Empire, the third try at resurrecting it. ...The people of
the Balkans have always warred and always will, unless under the iron
heel of Germany.
Like it or not, we're bored with the Balkans and don't really care what happens there. You people wanted to fight, you fought, its no one's fault but your own and certainly no one's responsibility to fix but your own.
We are Judeo-Christian ... – you are Slavic people we don't know and have nothing in common with.
No one supports anything going on in the Balkans and we don't want any more of our troops over there, and those who are there should come home as soon as possible.
~ Besqa
Nebojsa Malic replies:
All the absurdity, ignorance and racism aside, I absolutely agree that American occupiers need to pack their bags and go home. The US never had any business in the Balkans. It was "invited" by dictators who wanted it to fight their wars, and came eagerly because it had purposes of its own. I'm not suggesting all Balkan troubles would cease with US withdrawal, but the worst ones definitely would.
Perpetual War
What we are talking about is perpetual war and the preparation for war imposed on us by a statist country governed by a single political party – Demopublicans. The foreign policy goal is perpetual war fought all over the globe, wherever underlying conflict preexists. This goes back at least to the Spanish-American War and continues through World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, and all the other so-called brush wars such as Somalia, Iraq/Kuwait, ad nauseum.
The
result of our meddling in the affairs of other countries directly contradicts
the advice
of the Founding Fathers and serves only to slowly destroy our country's
resources of whatever kind. Our leaders lie to us perpetually and kill
our youth in foreign wars that never advance the interests of
the United States of America.
I
have served and know whereof I speak.
~ Edward S. Bernreuter, San Antonio, Texas
Degenerate Former Republic
[Regarding Justin Raimondo's column of August 10, "Harry Truman, War Criminal":]
I
have wondered at times, if Truman's later actions of firing
MacArthur and refusing to use nuclear weapons in the Korean War
were something of a recognition by Truman that he had unleashed something
that should never have been unleashed.... While the basis for understanding
Truman as a war criminal remains, there remains some interesting psychological
speculation of why Truman did back away from a nuclear solution in Korea.
...In Truman, Eisenhower, and even, to some degree, Johnson, there came, at times, a reluctance to create an American global hegemony. Truman did see some implications of losing political control over the military, Eisenhower was deeply concerned regarding the building of a military-industrial complex that would alter irreversibly America's future from its past foundations, and Johnson waged a war that he felt was demanded by our treaty requirements (entangling alliances) while expressing that the whole of Vietnam was not worth one American life.
But now, we have seen Conservative and liberal alike reaching the point that there is no conscientious concern that American global hegemony ... means the end of the American republic and the coronation of the President as the new world emperor whose power is global in scope and built on the foundation of oppression....
...We
are the citizenry of a degenerate former republic in which ... our domestic
battles are fought over whether or not a $300 tax rebate will break
the government, as it needs more money, since presently we only outspend
the next nine nations on military spending. The taxpayer is ... merely
a pawn in the global domination ambitions of the Emperor....
For
Truman, Eisenhower, and Johnson there were questions that continued
to bother their consciences. Today, Justin Raimondo faces a nation that
has lost the ability of their consciences being bothered by continual
use of "the bomb diplomacy." It is extremely sad that such
concerns seldom bother our national leaders today. It raises the question
of whether or not our republic
is recoverable.
Thunderous Applause
[Regarding Justin Raimondo's column of August 10:]
May
all who love liberty honor give you thunderous applause for your article
on "Harry
Truman, War Criminal" Right on!
R. Larsen, Texas
Bully
[Regarding "Congressman Paul Denounces Unauthorized Airstrike Against Iraq" (August 10):]
[I] agree entirely with the Congressman but, in addition, these Iraqi bombings reinforce my belief that the US behave like a bully: strong only when the enemy is defenseless. The US did zip when China confiscated the EP-3 that landed on their territory, holding the 21 crew members in custody. Why? Because China can defend itself....
~ S. Lafontant