“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” ignsi of tlje tCimesirnVol. 1 No. 9 September 1999rnWe open this, the final Signs of thernTimes to be devoted entirely to Clinton’srnwar in Kosovo, with an eloquent summaryrnof the war by Canada’s answer to PatrnBuchanan, David Orchard. In an op-ed inrnthe National Post (June 23), the prominentrnTory declared the idea that NATO attackedrnYugoslavia to solve a humanitarianrncrisis about as credible as Germany’srnclaim in 1939 that it was invading Polandrnto prevent “Polish atrocities.” In thernmeantime,rnIn an a l l out effort to convincernpublic opinion that Yugoslaviarndeserved the onslaught,rnWestern p o l i t i c i a n srnand media are churning out endlrne s s accusations of Serbrna t r o c i t i e s , while the provenrnand i n f i n i t e l y greater a t r o c i ­trni e s of NATO-launching an aggressivernwar, using internatrni o n a l l y outlawed clusterrnbombs and f i r i n g depleted uraniumrnammunition into Yugoslavia-rnare buried.rnBut why did NATO attack Yugoslavia,rnand why are the Serbs (“Canada’s staunchrnallies in both World Wars”) being demonized?rnOrchcird offers his answer:rnDuring the war. Bill Clintonrnelaborated: “If we’re going tornhave a strong economic relationshiprnthat includes ourrna b i l i t y to s e l l around thernworld Europe has got to be thernkey; t h a t ‘ s what t h i s Kosovornthing is a l l about. . . . I t ‘ srnglobalism versus tribalism.”rn”Tribalism” was the word usedrnby 19th century free trade l i b ­ernr a l s to describe nationalism.rnAnd t h i s war was a l l aboutrnthreatening any nation whichrnmight have ideas of independence.rn. . . In a March 28 NewrnYork Times a r t i c l e , ThomasrnFriedman wrote: “For globalirnz a t i o n to work, America can’trnbe afraid to act like thernalmighty superpower that i t isrn. . . The hidden hand of thernmarket will never work withoutrna hidden fist-McDonald’s cannotrnflourish without McDonnellrnDouglas, the designer of the F-rn15. And the hidden f i s t thatrnkeeps the world safe for S i l i ­conrnValley’s technologies isrncalled the United States Army,rnAir Force, Navy and MarinernCorps.”rnOrchard, a leading opponent of NAFTArnnorth of the border, concludes thatrnglobalization undermines both democracyrnand national sovereignty, the only guarantorsrnof human rights: “Unfortunately forrnMessrs. Clinton, Chretien et al; that messagernwas not lost on millions around thernworld watching NATO bombs pulverizernYugoslavia.”rnAmong the few satisfied with the outcomernin Kosovo are the drug lords of thernKosovo Liberation Army, who may lookrnforward to managing the global market inrndope from their Serbenfrei fiefdom. Notrnso, according to the Clinton administration.rnAs Reuters reported on June 23rn(“U.S. has seen no evidence of KLA drugrntrafficking”). State Department spokesmanrnJames Rubin declared that “the U.S.rngovernment has never identified crediblernevidence of these drugrunning charges.”rn”We’ve seen reports in newspapersrnand elsewhere,” Rubinrnsaid. But although Americanrni n t e l l i g e n c e agencies havernlooked into the issue, “we havernnever developed credible evidencernof our own,” he said.rnPity they don’t read Chronicles inside thernBeltway. As for the future, far from disarmingrnthe terrorist group, Rubin envisagedrnits metamorphosis intorn”a national guard along thernl i n e s of the U.S. NationalrnGuard. That’s an aspiration.rnAnd if that aspiration isrnachieved, then obviously theyrnwould have weapons.”rnEat your heart out, Escobal!rnBy the time the KLA is converted into arn”national guard,” there will be no Serbsrnleft in Kosovo. Their ethnic cleansing wasrnforecast by “Mr. Massacre,” WilliamrnWalker, even before the war {Globe andrnMail, February 17) and by Pentagonrnspokesman Kenneth Bacon, who declaredrnin the first week of June that Kosovo willrnnot be a pleasant place for the Serbs underrnNATO and that nobody would try to stoprnthem if they wanted to “return to Serbia.”rnWith the KLA murdering the remainingrnSerbian civilians, Radio Free Europern(June 16) quoted U.S. Army Gen. JohnrnCraddock as stating that disarming thernKLA is up to the “discretion” of the respectivernpeacekeeping troops and thatrn”our soldiers are not instructed to routinelyrndisarm the KLA.” German armyrnspokesman Lt. Col. Dietmar Jeserich wasrnquoted in the same report as stating: “ThernKLA is walking the streets with itsrnweapons, but the authority lies withrnKFOR.” NATO’s policy of allowing thernKLA to terrorize defenseless Serbianrncivihans gave the lie to Gen. Sir MichaelrnJackson’s appeal for Serbs to stay.rnAmong the many things that went unreportedrnin the American press were the reactionsrnof those who actually pressed therntriggers in NATO’s war. In Europe, however,rnthe awful facts are coming out. Take,rnfor instance, the sensational confessionsrnof a Spanish air force officer, reported inrnthe Spanish weekly A rtiCMto 20 (June 14):rnCaptain Adolfo Luis Martin dernl a Hoz, who returned to Spainrnat the end of May after havingrnp a r t i c i p a t e d in the bombingsrnsince the beginning, is . . .rncategoric: “The majority, evenrni f not a l l , of my colleaguesrnare against the war in general,rnand against this war of barbarirnt y in p a r t i c u l a r . ” . . . Thernsuspicions that NATO’s repeatedrnbombings of c i v i l i a n victimsrnand non-military targetsrnare not the r e s u l t of “errors”rn24/CHRONICLESrnrnrn