- From Washington was the "humanitarian intervention" in Yugoslavia. Insights that were common knowledge after Vietnam were purged from the "Washington consensus" during the Reagan regime, and with the "winning of the Cold War" the last shred of conscience was lost in unleashing mass violence on the world. The marginilized voices of the 1990s have now, once the dust has cleared and blood has dried, been seen as "right all along," as usual; and Professor Gibbs' superb forensic CSI displays the fingerprints along with the evidence.
It was all about NATO expansion, of course, and in Washington that means maintaining American dominance over Europe now that the Soviet threat is inconveniently laid to rest. Gibbs details how Yugoslavia was willfully pulled apart when a neutralist island in eastern Europe was no longer needed. How the war in Bosnia was deliberately prolonged by the Clinton administration, to the point where intervention seemed the only way out of endless cycles of atrocity, and justifying the inclusion of three new former Soviet clients into NATO. How formal incorporation of these new members was followed in two weeks by the war on Serbia/Yugoslavia, to crush the last independent military force in Europe and justify the final inclusion of all east Europe into NATO, as counterweight to the restless old Atlantic allies.
A cynical game of great-power expansionism was played, with all the right touches of wartime atrocity propaganda dusted off from WW I, to arouse the "liberal conscience" behind another crusade to make the world safe yet again for democratization and Atlantic investors. The pro-war "liberals" of the United States and Britain stand revealed as criminal as Milosevic and Tudjman for this bloody fiasco and its predictable postwar results, and perhaps even more so: Milosevic never hid behind "human rights" to disgorge explosive ordinance onto human flesh.
Professor Gibbs' work is highly recommended to those tired of wandering in the warfog of propaganda.
- Paperback: 327 pages
- Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press; 22304th edition (June 29, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0826516440
- ISBN-13: 978-0826516442
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