Serbia is just one of the republics still left in Yugoslavia. Kosovo is a province of Serbia. And it is being stage-managed by President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, special envoy Richard Holbrooke and Secretary of Defense William Cohen. And it was carried out with the blessing of the United States. A report in the March 21 New York Times even strongly indicates that U.S. generals planned the whole offensive, called Operation Storm.
War is peace, aggression is defense, and everything is being done to help a small, oppressed people.
But at the same time, the governments of these two capitalist industrial giants are also in a fierce underground struggle over who is to get the spoils. Clinton's rush to plant both feet securely in Yugoslavia before other imperialists get there may explain why Clinton has moved so aggressively, even before being able to secure political support at home. Even before the first missile was fired, support for this war was lukewarm, at best. Everyone knows how expensive these military adventures are, even when few U.S. lives are lost. Billions of dollars go down the drain.