From: hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker)
Subject: George Bush's New World Order
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 04:15:52 GMT


Everybody catch the first election debate Sunday?  I found George
Bush's reply to the question "why weren't we sending troops into
Bosnia-Herzegovina" rather amusing.  "Well... we aren't sending anyone
in unless we know we can get them out."  Uh... yeah right George.

What happened to The New World Order that would keep the global peace?
Months of fighting in Bosnia and still all George Bush (and the
51-nation summit of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in
Europe held several months ago) could say is "I think we should hold
some international talks." "Oh let's send some peace-keeping forces
and.... uh.... humanitarian aid... yeah that's the ticket... send some
aid.  That'll make us look committed to peace."

Sending cans of food under the watchful eye of the military is aid?  To
a people who are being systematically tortured and exterminated this
must seem like a cruel joke.

How can the Western Nations be so totally callous?  When US interests
and the supply of oil in the middle east was threatened you can be
damned sure George Bush was over there with his troops, B-2 bombers and
carrier groups. "Dear innocent little Kuwait HAD to be protected. What
Sadam Hussein did was such an OUTRAGE"! Yeah, well what about the
slaughter of THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of innocent civilians in
Bosnia-Herzegovina?  Among the missing and dead in six months of
fighting are at least 10,000 children.  Don't they matter George?
Aren't they worth a few US or even U.N. troops?  Apparently not. "Hey...
no oil in what was Yugoslavia so why bother, right?"

The appalling part of this story is that President Bush turned aside a
ferverent personal appeal from the president of Bosnia, Alija
Izetbegovix, for direct military action to stop the slaughter, but Bush
gave him the cold shoulder and has refused to go beyond his previous
support for enforcement of U.N. sanctions and humanitarian relief.
Officials of other nations seemed ameanable to a "peace making" force
but the United States gave no indication that it would do so.

I can just envision the president of Bosnia-H... on his hands and
knees... begging George Bush for help in stopping the slaughter of
Croats at the hands of the Serbian militia. Just like he did in the
middle east. "You can do it again, right George?  You promised that
"The New World Order" would protect small nations from this sort of
slaughter!"  And what does George Bush do? He throws a crumb of
humanitarian aid down to the floor from the table of the great economic
powers...

"Here... we'll feed a few of your people until they're viciously
tortured and slaughtered."

At the time, Secretary of State James Baker quoted Bush as saying he
would consider the Bosnian request for active military intervention and
that "he hasn't ruled anything in or anything out." Anything further
Baker said would have to be as part of an multinational effort based on
a new more far-reaching Security Council resolution.

A resolution that will not be pursued by the Bush administration...

Now the UN Security Council *has* authorized the use of military force
if needed to deliver humanitarian aid to Bosnia, however this measure
stems in large part to the international outcry over civilian suffering
there, the overwelming evidence of human rights abuses and the
application of "ethnic cleansing" by the Republic's powerful Serb
militia faction.  Muslim men are being systematically tortured, lined
up and shot.  Prisoners are routinely beaten and often summarily
executed.  The women ... tortured and raped.

Many months ago, when the first allegations of atrocities were being
made, the United Nations responded with a "comprehensive
investigation."  Yup... sounds like its back to business as usual in
the United Nations.  I wonder what that "comprehensive investigation"
revealed?  Probably that another several thousand innocents had been
systematically tortured and executed.

Over the past six months all I've heard on the radio is "well let's set
up an international obseving team" or "let's send some humanitarian aid
in". But if the nations acted with their hearts instead of their heads
(and I have to wonder where their heads are stuck these days) then they
would react with the swiftness and resolution that they did in the Gulf
Crisis.

But they haven't. The so-called "New World Order" is really old world
politics and status quo at work again. There is no "New World Order."
That was a load of bullshit spouted by George Bush to justify invading
Iraq and his cold rejection of any military intervention is proof.
Let's face it. The UN Security Council is dominated by the big Western
INDUSTRIALIZED nations. They're going to ram any resolution home they
want to if there's even the slightest problem with their oil supply.
And having the largest interests in the middle east, the greatest oil
consumption in the world, and the largest nuclear tipped prick... take
one guess which nation takes precidence... "Iraq" or "Bosnia."

Yet George Bush just sits back on his thumbs and does nothing. Remember
the Gulf Crisis and his indigination at the attrocities committed by
Sadam Hussien? Well, aren't the attrocities committed by the Serbs
enough for him to warrent a similar outcry and subsequent military
action? Oops... I forgot. No oil in Bosnia. Forget it.

Oh by the way George.  Better step up that humanatarian aid if that's
all you're goin to do.  By some estimates 147,000 moer civilians will
die in the upcoming winter.  The official UN worst-case estimate is
400,000, but hey.... what's a few 100,000 people here or there?

Have a nice day...

- hacker

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