Why Yugoslavia? Why Military Attacks? (was Re: Protest against the Bombing)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Barkley Rosser wrote:
>12)  Frankly, I'm not sure why the US is doing this.  Some on these
>lists have and will charge that this is all generated by US
>capitalists out to undo the quasi-socialist regime in Yugoslavia,
>or that this is part of a power play against the Russians, traditional
>defenders of Serbia, or that this is a German plot (Germany having
>traditionally supported Croatia against Serbia).  Maybe.

Why is the US government doing all this?

1. To prevent people (esp. Americans & Europeans) from questioning the
continuation & enlargement of the NATO.

2. To get the American public used to the idea & reality of sending troops
abroad even in a context where it is impossible to claim a 'quick,
painless, and decisive' victory.

3. To secure the Balkans as militarily strategic areas under the US/NATO
control, which will become very useful when Russian people, fed up with
capitalism (= unpaid wages, collapsing living standards, diminishing life
expectations, general chaos, mob rule, etc.), will finally stage some kind
of uprisings (whose political character it is impossible to predict from
here).

4. To erase the memory of Yugoslavia (which represented an alternative
model of Socialism) by claiming that the region is (and has been always)
nothing but competing ethnic groups whose interests the US/NATO claims to
ajudicate, thus assuming political & ideological control.

Yoshie