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Kosovo, Bosnia, Serbia, Yugoslavia
The United Nations intervention
Scarcely had the dust settled on NATO's 1999 bombing of
Serbia when prolific political commentator Noam Chomsky brought out The New Military
Humanism, which raises incisive, unsettling questions about the motives of the United
States and England -- the two most vocal proponents of Operation Allied Forces -- and the
efficacy of their handiwork. Chomsky pulls together much damning evidence,
including testimony from the military commander who led the attack, to demonstrate that
the assault was not intended to bring an end to Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic's
"ethnic cleansing" of the disputed territory in Kosovo; it seems very likely, in
fact, that President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair knew full well that their
actions would ultimately exacerbate the situation. Chomsky also points out
that if the United States was genuinely concerned with ending the horrors of genocide, its
continued financial and military support of repressive regimes in countries like Turkey
and Indonesia is at the very least extremely puzzling.
(The New Military Humanism was written and published before the international
community decided in September 1999 to intervene in East Timor,
which had been subject to Indonesian occupation for over 20 years.)
Ultimately, Chomsky suggests, such contradictions exist because what the United States
claims to be a "humanitarian" mission is--no matter how glowingly the mass media
portrays it -- nothing more than American muscle flexing. "The contempt
of the world's leading power for the framework of world order," he concludes,
"has become so extreme that there is little left to discuss." --Ron Hogan
Excellent analysis of the Kosovo conflict and the New World Order.
An
excellent analysis of the causes of the Kosovo conflict and the nature of the New World
Order. I could not put it down until I had finished it.
What constitutes the behavior that gets a nation labeled
a "rogue state"? If, Noam Chomsky suggests, we consider a state to
be acting in an "outlaw" fashion when it refuses to heed the articles and
resolutions of the United Nations, then the United States is as much a "rogue
state" as Saddam Hussein's Iraq -- if not
more. Chomsky presents a brief outline of America's attempts --
once the cold war was over -- to reconstruct Iraq
as an enemy after years of turning a blind eye to Saddam's activities and even supplying
him with aid. He also considers how the broader "war" on terrorism
fits into this post-cold-war strategy. Noted
commentator on Middle Eastern affairs Edward Said supplements Chomsky's argument with a
consideration of the severity of U.S. sanctions against Iraq and what he views as a
growing disregard for the interests of other Arab nations in the region.
And
Ramsey Clark offers a brief coda on the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights; Chomsky himself delivers a more elaborate consideration of this theme in
another book in the Open Media series, The Umbrella of U.S. Power. --Ron Hogan
Through three separate essays, this book provides an in-depth analysis of U.S.-Arab
relations, the contradictions and consequences of U.S. foreign policy toward "rogue
states", and how hostile American actions abroad conflict with U.N. resolutions and
international law. Noam Chomsky compares U.S. foreign policy to that of the
"rogue states" which the United States identifies as its enemies.
Ramsey Clark argues that U.S. sanctions and military actions against Iraq are
indefensible, and in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
NATO books here - East
Timor
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