Clinton ignores the American people with his foreign policy blunder in
Kosovo Yugoslavia


FOREIGN POLICY BLUNDER:  Kosovo Yugoslavia

This is a perfect example of why the American people should be involved in
the foreign policy decision making process by means of direct democracy:

The President's Deputy National Security Advisor James Steinberg was
interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on CNN's Late Edition Sunday April 4, 1999. 
Blitzer displayed a poll of the American people regarding the bombing of
Serbia and its effect on Kosovar Albanians.  22 percent said the bombing
made things better for the Kosovar Albanians.  64 percent said the bombing
made things worse.  Blitzer asked Steinberg to comment on the poll.  
Steinberg ignored the poll and suggested that Blitzer ask the Kosovar 
Albanians how they feel about it.  

On April 5, 1999, flanked by the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense
and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, President Clinton held a briefing on
the war in Yugoslavia.  He was pressed by ABC News Sam Donaldson with the
question of whether or not his goals for the Kosovar Albanians were being
accomplished by the air attack campaign.  Clinton responded by refusing to
answer the question and leading his group off the stage.

President Clinton is chiseling yet another foreign policy blunder into his
legacy with short-sighted, questionably timed, air strikes against Serbia
that intensified the purging of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo.  His actions 
have destabilized Montenegro, overwhelmed Albania, burdened Macedonia 
and increased the likelihood of committing our troops to an unnecessary 
ground war in Yugoslavia.

Clinton has proven himself to be an inept Commander-in-Chief as evidenced
by a stack of military, national security and foreign policy fiascoes in
Africa, Asia and the Middle-East.  He simply turned his back and abandoned
Rwanda to massive tribal genocide.  He stepped into Bosnia and got our foot
stuck in the door.  Now, he's bound and determined to do "something" in
Europe, "at any cost."  
 
The President hasn't the credibility to parse the words of intent, national
security or genocide.  NATO is a defense alliance under no identifiable
threat from Yugoslavia or its provincial history of civil strife.  History
will undoubtedly record Bill Clinton as a manipulating social meddler who 
played careless CNN video war games and left the world littered with the 
failures of good intentions.

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