today’s AR-online AR-Online recent issues: February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 Toronto, March 26, 1999 http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary.asp?f=990326/2414199.html Ashamed to be a Canadian by Professor Michael Bliss CANADIAN aircraft have bombed targets in Yugoslavia. Our country has committed acts of war against a sovereign European nation.
We and our NATO allies are attacking a country that has not attacked us or any other country. We are not acting under the sanction of the United Nations or any other font of international law. We, in fact, are acting in direct contravention of the UN Charter. Nor has Parliament authorized our government to make war on Yugoslavia. What in the world is happening to us?
NATO is trying to save lives in Kosovo; it is waging war in order to bring peace to the Balkans, we are told in good Orwellian doublespeak. It’s true that a civil war is raging in a province of Yugoslavia, as the government of the country tries to suppress an armed insurrection. Led by the United States, NATO has insisted that the fighting in Kosovo stop, and has developed a peace plan that would involve stationing tens of thousands of foreign troops on Yugoslavian territory.
The Yugoslav government will not agree to the terms of this foreign interference in what it deems a domestic matter. So it is being pounded into submission. Having no brief for Slobodan Milosevic and his policies, I hope that he and other Yugoslavian leaders decide that the cost of resisting NATO assaults is too high, that they