Noam Chomsky, "The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo"
Publisher: Common Courage Press | 2002 | ISBN
1567511767 | PDF | 112 pages | 3.1 MB
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."
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