A truck stop in Tulsa has a sign that proclaims: "Kids with gas eat free." Well, kids, Im getting gas from all the baloney we're eing fed by NATO, the Pentagon, and the hite House about our 'military action' gainst Yugoslavia. Now Congress is getting in on the act, too, serving up a special appropriation of $11.7 billion worth of baloney to the war machine. Notice how Washington can't find money to assure health care for millions of America's uninsured children, or for rebuilding our schools and national parks, or for generating good jobs at, say, 1980 wages-but when the Pentagon cries 'Money!' Congress instantly says 'How much?' then doubles what was requested. So we're flinging even more tons of Tomahawks, Warthogs, Apaches, HARMS, Helifires, and other weaponry at Slobodan Milosevic, his small army of 40,000 troops, the civilian population of Yugoslavia (and, oops, Bulgaria), assorted TV towers, bridges, buses, tractors, and the occasional Chinese embassy.
Why?
There is no nation- al security issue for us in this Serbian/ ethnic-Albanian civil war inside Yugoslavia. Milosevic may be meaner than the other Balkan despots, but he rules tenuously over a weak impoverished nation with zero capacity to threaten the territories of the European powers, much less our shores. Nor does Milosevic control anything our nation wants-like oil, bananas, trade routes, or other things America has warred over with small nations in the past.
No NATO interest is threatened, either. This military organization exists solely for the defense of its 19 members, none of whom are under attack by mighty Yugoslavia. Indeed, NATO is the one doing the attacking, something its charter says it absolutely, cross-our-hearts-and-hope- to-die will never do. The official rationale for NATO's attacks has hopped all over the place. FIRST: 'We're gonna bring 01' Slobodan to the peace table whimpering like a whipped puppy after we pop his sorry ass with a few of our smart bombs.' Didn't happen. SECOND: 'It's about preventing ethnic 'cleansing' (a sick euphemism for expulsion, annihilation, genocide and/or gross murder) of the Kosovars.' This rationale didn't work either, since, unfortunately, our bombing hastened the eviction/annihilation of ethnic Albanians, actually giving Milosevic the political cover he needed to do it. THIRD: 'It's humanitarianism that moves us to punish the bully on behalf of the refugees.' This didn't ring true either, since there are all those other bullies we've been in cahoots with over the years- Pinochet, Suharto, the TonTon Macouts, arcos, SLORC, the PRI, and, presently, the bullies of Beijing. FOURTH: 'We must Iwin'to preserve NATO's credibility.' So, the bottom line is that we're spending billions and killing thousands in the Balkans for the credi- bility of an organization that's violating its own charter by being there in the first place. Incredible.
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What the hell's happening here? Why is my bank in the tank? And my house and job? And my retirement money? Even my state's teetering on the brink of broke! Who did this to us? Fair questions, but we're not getting honest answers. 
