Gründe? Ausweitung des amerikanischen Empires auf die muslimische Welt?
In a recent opinion piece in The New York Times, Jacob Heilbrunn and Michael Lind of the New Republic editorial staff argue that the American commitment to the Islamic connection is so strong that the US design is to make the Islamic world part of a new American empire and that American support of the Bosnian Muslims is part of the implementation of this plan. (New Yorm Times, 2.1.1996)
Oder die? Restrukturierung der Sicherheitsarchitektur in Europa?
General George Joulwan the American Commander in Chief of NATO told the Washington Post [...] that NATO's actions in Bosnia are not about the future of Bosnia but the future of Europe. I think this is true. Bosnia is a test case for the new American designed security architecture for Europe. If it achieves all American goals here at little or no cost [to us], then it will be applied elsewhere and it doesn't take much imagination to predict where. (Ebd.)
Die etwa? Experimente mit Regime Change in großem Maßstab?
Under Clinton's policy, Bosnia will continue to be our responsibility for the rest of the century and beyond. This is a much broader and deeper commitment than what the American people realize. It runs far beyond mere 'peacekeeping.' [...] Administration officials have looked far and wide for somewhere to implement these notions. Bosnia is their new laboratory, providing a larger scope for experimentation than either Somalia or Haiti. (Washington Times, 4.2.1996.)
Die? Der Balkan als Militärstützpunkt?
The strategic goal is to turn Bosnia-Herzegovina into the main American military base in Europe and transfer the U.S. forces now stationed in Germany there. The confirmed contract (value $1.3 billion!) To build military barracks and latrines at Tuzla in the Moslem part of Bosnia is far too big to relate to the 20,000 American troops presently in Bosnia and supposed to be evacuated from there in early 1997. Nor is it likely that so much American money is being invested to build barracks for German or other European forces. So the transfer of U.S. ground forces now stationed in Germany to Bosnia is by far the most reasonable assumption – especially since Germany has been pressing for their evacuation, regarding them as an unwelcome reminder of its defeat and occupation in World War II. (Yohanan Ramati, Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense: "The Cold War is Back!" (Juni 1996))
Die? Die Kaspische Region?
Forget mutual funds, commodity futures and corporate mergers. Forget South African diamonds, European currencies and Thai stocks. The most concentrated mass of untapped wealth known to exist anywhere is in the oil and gas fields beneath the Caspian Sea and lands around it [...] The strategic implications of this bonanza hypnotize
Western security planners as completely as the finances transfix oil executives. (New York Times, 21.9.1997.)
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With the Middle-East increasingly fragile, we will need bases and fly-over rights in the Balkans to protect Caspian Sea oil. (Washington Post, 28.2.1999.)
Begleitet wurde das alles von einem PR-Trommelfeuer, d. h. langjähriger Planung. Ein besonders infames, aber wohlbekanntes Sujet wird hier beschrieben:
Harff erläuterte damals: "Die jüdischen Organisationen auf Seiten der Bosnier ins Spiel zu bringen war ein großartiger Bluff. In der öffentlichen Meinung konnten wir auf einen Schlag die Serben mit den Nazis gleichsetzen. [...] Sofort stellte sich eine bemerkbare Veränderung des Sprachgebrauchs in den Medien ein, begleitet von der Verwendung solcher Begriffe, die eine starke emotionale Aufladung hatten, wie etwa ethnische Säuberung, Konzentrationslager usw., und all das evozierte einen Vergleich mit Nazi-Deutschland, Gaskammern und Auschwitz. Die emotionale Aufladung war so mächtig, dass es niemand wagte, dem zu widersprechen, um nicht des Revisionismus bezichtigt zu werden. Wir hatten ins Schwarze getroffen. (Zit. in: Jörg Becker, Mira Beham: "Operation Balkan. Werbung für Krieg und Tod", S. 43.
Da steht man nicht gern abseits, wie Vollmers Hitler-Relativierung zeigt. Hufeisenplan, Massakermärchen, nichts war unseren kriegsgeilen Laffen zu schade.