The Kosovars are being killed. The Serbs are growing even more vicious and are taking the offensive against the United States. American soldiers are taken as prisoners. Alliances are breaking up. Villages are being bombed to pieces.
Is this peace?
Such is the pathetic state of the crisis in Kosovo. America is trying meddle in a civil war. It is ironic that planes are flying over Kosovo with the word "peace" on them, as they bomb the country to pieces. These peacekeeping troops are supposedly trying to achieve a great goal: stop world-wide suffering. But they are not even coming close, and instead are creating disastrous results. This section of the Center for American Freedom's site is designed to show you the failures of intervention in Kosovo and the harmful effects occuring.
"The second World War, one of the bloodiest conflicts ever arisen on the face of our earth, was started by a small conflict in Europe. It ignited as more countries got involved, and grew to become a world war. The Kosovo crisis is feared to be the same situation. Trying to 'keep the peace' in a country by bombing the country is like trying to stop a fire by adding more lighter fluid on it: it does not work.."
"If there is anything that justifies U.S. involvement in Kosovo, it is yet unknown. But what is known is something that does not justify U.S. involvement in Kosovo: morality. If we continue to support the Kosovars, we continue to support a vicious regime that promotes drug trafficking and Communism. If we join sides with the Serbs, we would be promoting another vicious regime. Either way, America would be taking an immoral stance. There is no moral obligation to intervene in Kosovo."
"There are a number of factors involved in the declaration of war. The President may ask for a declaration, which must then be approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate. On March 24th, 1999, the date that President Clinton authorized the beginning of the air strikes, Congressman Tom Campbell, from California, made the following observation: 'I highly regret the President's commencing of this action. He did not wait for the other half of Congress, the US Senate, to vote on a resolution regarding the use of force. Nor did he supply the prerequisite reports and findings required by the House of Representatives in its conditional resolution of support of two weeks ago. In so acting, President Clinton has, as other Presidents before him, acted in defiance of the US Constitution, which vests the sole right to declare war in the US Congress.' "
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