Benjamin C. Works, Executive Director

--Celebrating Chaos Theory Since 1990--

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SIT 9-22; Tuesday, September 22, 1998

Over the weekend, I noted that a bomb in an Algerian market killed 22. Then a rebel rocket attack against the Taliban capital city of Kabul, managed to kill some 50 poor souls (the initial report was an exaggerated 180). Yesterday, Kabul was hit again, with another 10 dead. I recalled the three breadline "massacres" in Sarajevo, which though blamed on the besiegers, European experts now confirm were really staged by the besieged: "At least" I facetiously said to myself, "Clinton cannot blame these bombings on the Bosnian Serbs."

Regarding an allegation I made last week, about Clinton, sex and bombing Serbs in Bosnia, here is the corrected story, from the Chicago Tribune: Chicago Tribune Tuesday, September 15, 1998; in an article entitled: "Amid affair Clinton juggled duties, family ties"

"...Again sexual activity was interrupted by a Congressman Sonny Callahan who called wanting to discuss the idea of deploying U.S. ground troops in Bosnia. While the Commander in Chief talked, Lewinsky performed oral sex on Clinton."

This indicates the incident occurred in December 1995, as the US was preparing to contribute to the NATO occupation of Bosnia in order to protect the Dayton Accords. Anyone infuriated with Clinton may relax back to simpler disgust. The videotapes rolled yesterday as Mr. Clinton addressed the UN; he'll be out of office soon.

Why? Every shred of credibility internationally, with those who matter, is gone. It is not just the sex and constitutional damage, atop that the Clinton team has bungled all its major foreign policy initiatives except for the Ulster question. Congress may not remove a President for ordinary bungling, but the high level of bungling achieved by this administration, gives Congress a clear imperative to fulfill by pursuing the illegalities --high crimes and misdemeanors-- of Clinton and associates.

President Gore?

In the last ten days I have received a few (more than two, less than eight) tips about preparations of a Gore transition team. One such tip, which conformed with another expert's information, suggested that there are some centrist Republicans as well as old-guard Democrats working to surmount the national and worlds crises with a united front.

Mr. Gore, himself, is weak and prone to pandering to the same Leftist issues and activists that have already gotten this country into so much trouble. Further, he is criminally compromised by illegal actions regarding fundraising in 1996. But it may be better to leave Mr. Gore as a figure-head for a broad coalition in order to get our national interests back in line. We shall see; more in due course on this.

The Clinton-Gore team has made much in the last six years of America being "the sole remaining global super-power" and have swaggered comically about, unsteady hands gripping the saber of power and rattling it in all the least effective ways.

To other countries and leaders, though the US Media keep finding quips and clips about our American "puritan preoccupation" about the sexual capers, those who really think, consider America's attempt to play the "hegemonist" and to achieve a "Pax Americana" anywhere from annoyingly ham-fisted, to flat-out outrageous misconduct and meddling. I agree with their views, having spent six years totting up the damage an indisciplined and political-agenda driven policy has wrought for others.

President Washington was very sensible warning America against "entangling foreign alliances" and warned against making permanent alliances. I think very often of a speech Secretary of State John Quincy Adams (later President and son of President John Adams) made on why he kept the US Navy out of the Greek War of Independence:

"America with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government...

"America does not need to go abroad in search of monsters to destroy...

"America... well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extraction, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force... She might become dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit."

- John Quincy Adams; Address, 4 July 1821

* "Righteousness exalteth a nation."

- Proverbs 14:34

I say Quincy Adams precisely described these ethnic wars of political advantage we have been seeing in Yugoslavia, where Socialist control of all assets make for political wars of control over the spoils and the pork barrel. In my view, and in the view of anybody with a disciplined view of international affairs, the US is not only itself wifully interfering in internal matters of others, the Clintonians, in conjunction with the New Left and UN are flagrantly interfering even in the democratic process in the case of Bosnia, Kosovo and elsewhere. International organizations are using their power to violate the rights of the majority at the ballot box and on the campaign stump, even censoring textbooks to suit their "enlightened" predisposition --imposing our American Left's Politically-Correct Agenda in every way imaginable. The European Union and OSCE are also collaborating against reason, experience and common sense, using blunt bullying to advance their policies built on post-socialist bureaucratic and academic "genius" against the "experience" of societies they meddle with.

I agree that righteousness, not force, exalts a nation; if the US cannot implant the values it is founded on, and rather, would impose decisions made against those lasting values, then we are absolutely wrong and creating future, worse disasters. A British Prime Minister reformulated Washington's thoughts in his own way:

"We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and these interests it is our duty to follow."

To suspend our principles to follow political agendas in foreign policy; this is the recipe for disaster Mr. Clinton's team has followed.

People addled and agitated by our political nonsense and blunt tinkering will resort to exremes; some electing radical leaders, others resorting to violence and terrorism; the Bosnian Serbs appear to have opted for radicals to defend their interests. I herewith present an article from yesterday's wires, detailing the extent of this meddling further:

SARAJEVO, Sept 21 (Reuters)- An election commission met on Monday to consider whether to disqualify the leader of the ultra-nationalist Serb Radical party from Bosnia's general election earlier this month for violating election rules.

Final results of the election, seen as crucial for Bosnia's future, are not expected to be released until the middle of this week.

Radical party leader Nikola Poplasen is widely expected to defeat the Western-backed incumbent, Biljana Plavsic, in the race for the presidency of the Serb Republic. Post-war Bosnia comprises the Serb Republic and the Moslem-Croat Federation.

The so-called elections appeals sub-commission is considering whether to punish Poplasen for violating election rules by appearing in a television interview during the election weekend despite a media blackout.

The independent body has the power to strike Poplasen off the candidates' list, impose fines or punish him or the party in other ways. It can also dismiss the case without action.

"There is a whole bunch of things they can do, or they can decide to do nothing," said Nicole Szulc, spokeswoman for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which organised the election.

Christopher Bennett of the International Crisis Group (ICG), a Brussels-based think-tank, said he was certain Poplasen would not be disqualified. "I rule it out completely," he told Reuters. Such a decision would "rule out the democratic will" of the Bosnian people. "They can't do that," he said.

The commission, which groups international and Bosnian judges, would also consider several other cases and Szulc said she expected a long meeting. It has disqualified several other candidates from various parties for violating the election rules, including biased television reporting in their favour.

A Poplasen victory is seen as a setback for Western efforts to gradually re-integrate the country following the 1992-1995 war between Bosnia's Serbs, Moslems and Croats, which killed more than 200,000 people.

His party is a branch of the Radical party of ultra- nationalist Serbian deputy premier Vojislav Seselj, whose paramilitary unit "White Eagles" took part in the conflict. The election commission is considering a separate case involving an interview with Seselj also broadcast during the media blackout period.

On Friday, the OSCE said Bosnian Serb nationalists had over the last two days threatened their staff. It said Serb hardliners had forced local radio stations to broadcast "spurious information" about the election commission.

OSCE Ambassador Robert Barry had written to Poplasen, asking him to "take all actions necessary to put an immediate stop to such threatening behaviour," it said. Szulc said Poplasen had replied that the demonstrations had taken place against his will and that he condemned them. He had also ordered party sympathisers to show restraint. "It was very quiet during the weekend," Szulc said.

In their second post-war general election, Bosnians also chose members of the three-man state presidency and deputies for the state parliament and the two entities' assemblies.

In the Moslem-Croat federation, nationalist parties representing mainly the interests of their own communities are widely expected to remain dominant.

Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited.All rights reserved.

I hope, next, to look at the continuing problem of how Yugoslavia must reform itself in order to progress beyond the Kosovo crisis and the Croat & Bosnian Wars of 1991-95. Yugoslavia suffers from the excesses of democracy --unfettered by constitutional restraint-- rather than from a lack of democracy. Yugoslavia still shackles its natural energy in the fantasy of socialist comfort: "bondage with ease, than strenuous liberty," as Milton wrote (see Website homepage).

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