It’s no accident that Neoconservative
hawks love Hillary
Bush and Cheney launched two
disastrous and totally
unnecessary wars which increased
terrorism and undermined America’s standing in the eyes of the world.
Hillary Clinton is at least as
bad …
She is largely
responsible for the war in Syria, which is plunging the Middle East
and Europe into chaos.
The New York Times confirms
that Clinton
is responsible for the violent regime change in Libya, which was
also completely
unnecessary.
Hillary is largely responsible
for the bombing of Yugoslavia … another wholly
unnecessary war. Diana Johnstone writes:
In her star-struck biography
of the First Lady, Hillary’s Choice, Gail Sheehy reported Hillary’s plea
in favor of bombing Yugoslavia in 1999 as a major point in her favor. According
to Sheehy’s book, Hillary convinced her reluctant husband to unleash the
78-day NATO bombing campaign against the Serbs with the argument that:
“You can’t let this ethnic cleansing go on at the end of the century that has
seen the Holocaust.”
This line is theatrical and
totally irrelevant to the conflict in the Balkans. As a matter of fact, there
was no “ethnic cleansing” going on in Kosovo at that time. It was the NATO bombing
that soon led people to flee in all directions – a reaction that NATO leaders
interpreted as the very “ethnic cleansing” they claimed to prevent by bombing.
Joshua Marshall notes:
At least 15,000 Kosovars gathered in
the central square of Pristina, the country’s capital, to demand the
government’s resignation. In January, thousands of protesters clashed with
police, hurling Molotov cocktails, setting
a major government building and armored police cars on fire, and wounding
24 police officers.
The aim of this protest was to
overthrow the government with violence, as the government said in a statement.
The U.S. ambassador chimed in, “Political violence threatens democracy and all
that Kosovo has achieved since independence.”
This violence gets little
attention from the American media in part because, unlike the Ukrainian
demonstrators who overthrew their democratically elected government in 2014,
Kosovo’s protesters are targeting a pro-Western government that eagerly seeks
membership in the European Union.
But it’s no wonder that
Kosovo’s political fabric is so rent by violent confrontations. The rump state
was created by a violent secessionist movement led by the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA). That guerrilla band of Albanian nationalists was covertly
backed by the German secret service to weaken Serbia. Its terrorist
attacks on Serbian villages and government personnel in the mid-1990s prompted
a brutal military crackdown by Serbia, followed by NATO’s decisive intervention
in 1999.
During the fighting the KLA
drove tens of thousands of ethnic Serbs from Kosovo as part of an ethnic
cleansing campaign to promote independence for the majority Albanian population.
It recruited Islamist
militants – including
followers of Osama Bin Laden – from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan
and other countries.
President Bill Clinton’s
special envoy to the Balkans, Robert Gelbard, called the
KLA “without any question, a terrorist group,” and a Council on Foreign
Relations backgrounder added,
“most of its activities were funded by drug running.”
None of that, however, stopped
Washington from embracing the KLA’s cause against Serbia, a policy spearheaded by the
liberal interventionist First Lady Hillary Clinton and Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright. Without authorization from the United Nations, NATO
began bombing Serbia in March 1999, killing
some 500 civilians, demolishing billions of dollars’ worth of industrial
plants, bridges, schools,
libraries and hospitals, and even hitting the Chinese embassy. (“It should
be lights out in Belgrade,”demanded New
York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. “Every power grid, water pipe,
bridge, road and war-related factory has to be targeted. Like it or not, we are
at war with the Serbian nation.”)
Following Serbia’s capitulation, according to Human
Rights Watch, “elements of the KLA’€ engaged in “widespread and systematic
burning and looting of homes belonging to Serbs, Roma, and other minorities and
the destruction of Orthodox churches and monasteries. This destruction was
combined with harassment and intimidation designed to force people from their
homes and communities. By late-2000 more than 210,000 Serbs had fled the
province . . .
The desire for revenge provides a partial explanation, but there
is also a clear political goal in many of these attacks: the removal from
Kosovo of non-ethnic Albanians in order to better justify an independent
state.”
Former KLA leaders, including
its political head Hashim Thaqi, went on to dominate the new Kosovo state.
A 2010
report by the Council of Europe declared that Thaqi, who was then
Kosovo’s prime minister, headed a “mafia-like” group that smuggled drugs, guns
and human organs on a grand scale through Eastern Europe. The report’s authoraccused the
international community of turning a blind eye while Thaqi’s group of KLA
veterans engaged in “assassinations, detentions, beatings and interrogations”
to maintain power and profit from their criminal activities.
***
In 2012, Madeleine Albright
and a former Clinton special envoy to the Balkans bid to take
control of the country’s state-owned telecommunications company despite
widespread allegations of corruption, the attempted assassination of the
telecommunications regulatory chief, and the murder
of the state privatization agency’s chief.
***
In 2014, a three-year E.U.
investigation concluded that
“senior officials of the former Kosovo Liberation Army” should be indicted for
war crimes and crimes against humanity, including “unlawful killings,
abductions, enforced disappearances, illegal detentions in camps in Kosovo and
Albania, sexual violence, other forms of inhumane treatment, forced
displacements of individuals from their homes and communities, and desecration and
destruction of churches and other religious sites.”
Under tough pressure from the
United States and E.U., Kosovo’s parliament finally agreed last
summer to permit a special court to prosecute former KLA leaders for war
crimes. The court will begin operating this year in
The Hague.
“The sad thing is that the
United States and European countries knew 10 years ago that Thaqi and his men
were engaged in drug smuggling and creating a mafia state,” said
one European ambassador last year. “The attitude was, ‘He’s a bastard,
but he’s our bastard.’”
Hillary also backed coups
against the democratically-elected leaders of Haiti,
Honduras and other countries.
And she helped create the
idea of “humanitarian war”, where the U.S. brutally overthrows a government
by military force … justifying the action by falsely claiming that otherwise
civilians will be.
Hillary has also literally
supported Islamic jihadis with arms, money and logistical support.
For example, the U.S. under
Clinton supported
Al Qaeda (and see
this) so that it could overthrow Libya’s government.
And the U.S. under
Clinton supported
Islamic jihadis so that they would overthrow Syria’s government.
The U.S. started plotting
regime change and arming jihadis in Syria – in an effort to topple
Assad – a decade ago.
Hillary Clinton – as secretary
of state – admitted that arming the rebels would strengthen Al Qaeda
So while Bush and Cheney’s
foreign policy was utterly despicable, Hillary Clinton has wreaked havoc
on the world stage on a scale which is comparable … if not worse.
Postscript: It’s telling that
the Neoconservative hawks – the same people who brought us the fiascos in Iraq
and Afghanistan (which Hillary also supported) – HATE
Trump and LOVE
Hillary.
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