From: "Peter L. Sroufe" 
Subject: SNET: Halfbright "Albright must resign"!
Date: 7 May 1999 21:48:04 -0400
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Albright must resign
By William Westmiller


Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has presided over one of the worst
foreign policy disasters in United States history. Assuming the mantle from
a distracted President, the Secretary has abandoned the principles of a
critical international treaty, committed the United States to an offensive
military adventure, and seriously jeopardized our moral standing with
nations around the world.

Her resignation should precede a full reversal of the policies she has
promulgated and implemented. Whatever her intentions, Albright is the
architect of a "new vision" of intervention and assault, which will destroy
peaceful relationships among nations for decades.

While calling for stability in Europe, she instigates a policy to
destabilize a nation which has never threatened its neighbors. While
applauding peace, she inaugurates an air war designed to cripple a former
ally. While chanting freedom, she enslaves an entire nation to the whims of
an Alliance gone berserk.
Ignoring reality or truth, she is drunk with the imagined power to impose
her own reality through the force of arms.
Her perception of the world must be repudiated by the United States Congress
and by her own President. Her efforts have been encouraged and supported by
the military elite of NATO, which desperately pursues hegemony as a remedy
for peaceful coexistence.

Unhappy with the prospect of an assured defense against any military
invasion, the Organization has initiated its own military assault in a
desperate effort to justify its own somber existence. Rather than surrender
power and position to the prospect of a diminished peaceful alliance, the
Organization has abandoned its principles of civil defense in favor of an
offensive military adventure. Madeleine Albright is their benefactor,
savior, and hero.

Albright's executive superior, embroiled for months in his own defensive
maneuvers, must assume responsibility for his own distractions and the
consequences for international peace. The president seems to believe that
the bombing campaign was a response to "ethnic cleansing" of Kosovo. He's
mistaken. Bombing was Albright's penalty for Yugoslavia's refusal to allow
foreign troops to occupy one of their provinces.

The Serbs had agreed to equal protection for Kosovars, even to political
autonomy for the province of Kosovo. The only reservation it expressed to a
peaceful settlement of a civil war was an indefinite occupation of the
province by NATO military troops. For that affront, Albright chose to bomb
their nation back to the Stone Age.

Her frustrated act of war against Serbia has left the Yugoslav government
with no alternative but to eliminate the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army,
which until recently occupied nearly half of the province. The forced
expulsion of ethnic Albanians was a response to NATO intransigence, not a
precursor to NATO's military assault. The president should recognize that
Albright's fruitless war was and remains a serious mistake. Heshould demand
her immediate resignation.

The next step must be an immediate termination of the bombing and a thorough
repudiation of any offensive intentions against peaceful nations. This
apology must be made strongest, first, and foremost to the Russian people.
President Clinton should personally travel to Moscow to plead for the
assistance of Russian troops in establishing a peacekeeping mission in
Kosovo, at our expense. This is the only hope for ending Albright's
foolishness and establishing an environment for the settlement of a civil
war in Yugoslavia. Russia may be the only nation that Serbia can accept as a
civil force for peace, given the conduct of the other European nations. NATO
and the United Nations should promptly endorse any reasonable terms the
Russians can obtain from Yugoslavia and the Kosovo rebels.

Even more important than the resolution of a foreign military conflict, the
people of the United States must reconsider our role in the world. If we are
to be a vehicle for peace among nations, we cannot allow our visceral
responses to pain and suffering to dictate our national interest, or our
conduct toward other nations.

There is prejudice, evil, and a multitude of innocent victims everywhere in
the world. If a few images of suffering are to determine the application of
our military power, then we shall surely be the victims of our own good
intentions. The combatants on both sides in Kosovo are Marxists and
Communists who put no value on human life, except as it serves their quest
for power. If we reduce our own ethics to the level of "might makes right,"
the enemies of freedom and liberty will have won.

A great nation can admit its mistakes and turn back to a just path. Our
power and strength is in our love of liberty, not in our military muscle. It
is not inhuman to make errors, but it is a grave fault to pursue them to our
own doom.



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William Westmiller is the California Coordinator of the Republican Liberty
Caucus and a frequent contributor to Real Mensch


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