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Title: Kosovo: The Politics of Delusion by Michael Waller, Kyril Drezov, Bulent Gokay ISBN: 0-7146-8176-8 Publisher: Frank Cass & Co Pub. Date: June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.95

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Summary: Useful survey of NATO's illegal attack
Comment: This collection of essays examines the origins, course and aftermath of NATO's attack on Kosovo (March-June 1999). Part I's nine essays look at the war's background and history. Part II presents ten diverse opinions on NATO's attack and consequent occupation of Kosovo. There is also a selection of relevant documents, including the notorious Appendix B of the Rambouillet Text, and a chronology of events.

NATO continually praised itself for precisely attacking only military targets, but they gradually changed to attacking civilian targets like TV stations, and to using cluster bombs, eventually killing three times as many civilians as soldiers.

In a particularly significant essay, Patrick Thornberry, Professor of International Law at Keele University, shows how international law embodies respect for state sovereignty, and reminds us that the UN's first purpose is to maintain 'international peace and security'. Article 2(7) of the UN Charter protects the state in its domestic jurisdiction from UN intervention, except for enforcement measures unanimously agreed by the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter. Thornberry writes, "The Milosevic indictment does not contain a genocide count." There was no genocide. "Security Council resolutions - taken singly or together - did not authorise the use of force against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia." "Presumptively, action outside the Charter framework violates it." The editors agree, concluding, "NATO went beyond the authority of the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and effectively set them aside."

Humanitarian intervention is illegal under the UN Charter. The International Court of Justice, in the case of Nicaragua v United States of America, ruled against the US government, stating, "as to respect for human rights in Nicaragua, the use of force could not be the appropriate method to monitor or ensure such respect." Yet the British government uses this illegal assault as a precedent for its subsequent illegal wars of aggression.

A supposedly temporary NATO protectorate (which is still there), imposed by 30,000 NATO troops, did not stop Kosovan forces from driving out 100,000 civilians, half the Serb population, after the war ended. It is delusion that destroying, then occupying, a country brings democracy.

All nations need sovereignty and democracy, to defend themselves against the US drive to dominate Europe and the world.