China Learns the Lesson of Libya

CounterPunch sitka at teleport.com
Mon May 10 14:04:14 PDT 1999


During the US/British bombing of Libya, France refused to allow the bombers to fly across their airspace. The French embassy in Libya was "accidentally" struck in the buzz-bys.

Now the Chinese, the most vocal opponents of the bombing of Yugoslavia, get their embassy trashed. Accident? Seven year old maps? C'mon. It seems clear to me that the CIA/Nato believed that Slobo and his top henchmen were using the embassy as a sanctuary.

Also aping Kissinger, Cohen just said, in justification of even more "intensification" of bombing, ("peace is at hand", Clinton-style) in his press conference that 4,500 Kosovar Albanians had been killed by Serb forces since the conflict began. What percentage of these were KLA was left unsaid. Still, this is hardly genocidal proportions.

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