Noam Chomsky About Serbia, Kosovo, Yugoslavia and NATO War 5

On the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Danilo Mandic
RTS Online, April 25, 2006
NOAM CHOMSKY, world-renowned linguist, political analyst, philosopher and activist, has been called "arguably the most important intellectual alive" by the New York Times. Recently, in a British magazine poll, he has been voted by a landslide as the top public intellectual in the world today. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, between 1980 and 1992 Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar, and remains the eighth most cited scholar ever. A professor at MIT, he is the author of more than 80 books, including The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo. His most recent book is Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy.

Danilo Mandic: Professor Noam Chomsky, in your, if I am not mistaken, first TV media appearance for Serbian media, thank you very much for being with us.

Noam Chomsky: I am glad to be with you.

Danilo Mandic: Last month marked the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the bombing of Yugoslavia. Why did NATO wage that war or I should say why did the United States wage that war?

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[grbavicaNS]

Fuck Nato !

[Staubdumm]

Thats not a contradiction. I think its rather narrow-minded when you take side with a brutal Mafia-don who is chasing a serial killer. And say "Oh, the mafia done is a tiny bit better, the world is not perfect".

As being sad, the NATO countries, as Germany put oil in fire by supporting an independance of crotia without dealing with the serb minority living there. What do you expect how nationalist serbs see this as? Thats counterproductive, because NATO is not interested in peace.

[KianyRiws]

Bombardovanje Srbije,kao i raspad SFRY,je plod rada zemalja NATO pakta,pre svega SAD,Nemacke i Vel.Britanije.Doslo je do rata,jer su spomenute zemlje imale interes da dodje do dugogodisnje podele i mrznje izmedju naroda koji zive na ovim prostorima,kako bi ono mogli najpre vojno,a zatim financijski doci na ovo tlo.tj,ostvariti enormne zarade na prodaji i svercu oruzja,droge,ljudi i organa,kidnapovanju dece i zena,kradjama svih vrsta,a kao konacan cilj vojna i monetarna kontrola ovog tla.

[kaktuscar86]

More Albanians died from NATO bombs than from Serbian bullets.

[phooey108]

@klimes86

i'm not sure why its mind boggling. U.S. forces blew the hell out Fallujah, used white phosphorus in an illegal manner, raided hospitals, shot at ambulances and civilians and killed hundreds of civilians.

[phooey108]

@klimes86

The bombing campaign was undertaken with the full expectations that atrocities would increase. If NATO was truly concerned with stopping the killing why would it have acted in ways that escalated the killings? Why did NATO present an ultimatum at Rambouillet that demanded that NATO troops be free and unimpeded access to and through Yugoslavia? No government could have accepted a demand that called for what was virtually a foreign occupation.

[silvaslash]

my short comment breaks the chain

[18bites]

the US did not need Vietnam's markets back in the 50s, 60s, 70s either so we need another explanation than the position you're taking which seems to be imperialist powers impose their will on weaker agents when they need something from them.

[Staubdumm]

I will write you a message.

The limit of letters left suffocates the content of my comments.

[klimes86]

Clinton after Somalia in 1993 was very reluctant to intervene anywhere in the world as it was such a failure. That mentaliy led to the slaughter in Rwanda and Bosnia. The West reluctantly intervened in 1995. If this was all about the West imposing their markets on Serbia, why didn't they intervene before during the previous 8 years? Why suddenly make up this excuse? Similarly, Serbia was not that strong economically...the US did not need "Serbia's markets" at that time. It was fine without them.