Kosovo Reassessed

Neil Clark, Media Star (unlike his detractors, which is why they hate him) writes:

These really are very bad days for the neocons and their liberal interventionist allies.

The Iraq war is totally discredited (Iraqi WMDs, anyone?). Tony Blair, their great idol, has been called to appear before the Chilcot Inquiry for a second time. Iran is refusing to kowtow to the neo-con induced international bullying, with the western public failing to buy the ludicrous line that the Islamic Republic, with its non-existent nuclear weapons, poses a threat to us all.

And a war that the neocons and liberal interventionists thought they had successfully got labelled for posterity as a ‘good war’ is coming under increasing scrutiny. As I’ve said before, the more the Iraq war is discredited, the more it is important for the neo-cons and liberal interventionists to push the line that the attack on Yugoslavia in 1999 was a ‘humanitarian’ good guys v bad guys intervention.

But as this BBC report shows, that is proving increasingly difficult, in the light of recent revelations.

"The offensive against Serbia in 1999 was presented by western leaders as a humanitarian act to prevent widespread ethnic cleansing of Kosovo's Albanian population by Slobodan Milosevic's forces. This was widely accepted by western commentators at the time and since then reporting of the conflict in western media has been largely been framed as a story of Albanian victims and Serb aggressors. But some of the recent commentary (you can read examples here and here) has challenged this account and questioned whether the intervention and support for independence were misguided."

As long-standing readers will know, I’ve been a consistent opponent of the 1999 NATO aggression against Federal Yugoslavia - and it’s pleasing that after all this time, the line I took, that the intervention was far from humanitarian, has, despite all the neo-con propaganda, now become widely accepted.

The game’s up for the serial warmongers - and all that is left for us to do now is to make sure they answer for the lies they told and their crimes against peace.