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Kosovo, the real face of global governance

© May, 1999 Michael S. Coffman, Ph.D., Editor

 

The world took a giant step towards global governance on March 24, 1999. Slobodan Milosevic and other would-be tyrants were served notice by the international community that "ethnic cleansing" and other human atrocities would not be tolerated.

Few Americans realize, however, that the bombing in Kosovo is not about humanitarianism. Fewer yet realize the war violates every national and international law, including the North Atlantic Treaty under which NATO functions, and the U.S. Constitution.

Lost in the rhetoric of saving the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo is the realization that The North Atlantic Treaty is purely for the defense of member nations. It has no legal basis for involving itself in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation.

President Clinton did not even give the order to start the bombing. That order was given on March 23rd by a Spanish Marxist—NATO Secretary General Javier Solana, "I have just directed the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, General Clark, to initiate air operations in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.... [The bombing] is intended to support the political aims of the international community."

Confused by what Solana had just done, correspondent Helen Thomas specifically asked White House spokesman Joe Lockhart the following day to clarify who was committing the United States to war, "who gives the green light on this now? Is it the President himself, or the Supreme Commander of NATO...?" Lockhart replied, "The Supreme Commander of NATO acts on the authority of the political leaders of the NATO countries, and he has that authority."

Although it was Clinton who ceded the war making power to Solana, it was not his to give in the first place. The U.S. Constitution specifically gives that power to Congress, not the president. Labeled "our illegal war" by Congressman Helen Chenoweth (R-ID) she asserts in the April 26, 1999 issue of the New American magazine, "Congress played no role in defining those political aims, which means that the American people—in whose name Congress is empowered to act—were not permitted to play any role in the decision to commit our nation to war."

The more Clinton’s illegal war is investigated the more bazaar it becomes. It is now clear that NATO’s incoherent humanitarian policy bombing was not only a failure, it greatly magnified the human suffering and slaughter of the ethnic Albanian Kosovars.

That is because Kosovo is not about humanitarianism. Kosovo is about establishing the right of the "international community" to intervene into the internal affairs of sovereign nations. Humanitarianism is merely the Trojan horse and the Kosovars the pawns. NATO Secretary General Javier Solana made this clear during NATO’s Summit and 50th Anniversary celebrations in Washington, D.C., already knowing the NATO bombing was a failure. Solana claimed, "We are moving into a system of international relations in which human rights, rights to minorities every day, are...more important even than sovereignty."

This humanitarian Trojan horse comes directly from the 1995 report of the UN funded Commission on Global Governance entitled "Our Global Neighborhood." The Commission’s report sets the stage by claiming, "the world has been transformed since 1945 [when the United Nations was created], making changes necessary in our governance. We make many recommendations, some quite radical, for promoting security in its widest sense, including the security of people and of the planet."

The report goes on to declare, "when there is human suffering on a large scale as a result of... civil war and ethnic conflict,... it inevitably provokes demands for UN action, notwithstanding the fact that such action would constitute external interference in the affairs of sovereign states. ...We believe a global consensus exists today for a UN response on humanitarian grounds in cases of gross abuse of the security of people. ...[W]e propose an appropriate Charter amendment permitting such intervention."

Using NATO instead of the United Nations to punish Serbia not only avoids a probable Russia and China veto in the Security Council, it frees the UN to play the part of the white knight, finding a solution and providing a totally "independent" peace keeping force.

The price of global governance is human suffering, misery and global instability. In an interview with United Press International on April 28th, Milosevic warned that NATO "miscalculated" when it intervened into the sovereign affairs of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Milosevic continued, "we can see the day when lesser nations will be able to retaliate. The development of these weapons [of mass destruction] is taking place so fast there is not a single spot on the planet that cannot be reached. America can be reached from this part of the world."

An empty threat? President Clinton has been preparing America to expect just such an attack for some time.

Of course, such a terrorist attack in the U.S. would likely cause Americans to embrace the idea of global governance by promising peace and security. Such a diabolical plan would mean that President Clinton would be willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of American lives to achieve the goals of the international community. No one is that evil. Then again, the president and the international community have already supported "humanitarian" efforts in the Baltic states, knowing in advance that they would result in the death and misery of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.