1. Germany Lies Again! Germany has readopted Goebbels's principle that "The bigger the lie, the more believable."  On April 15 German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping announced that the refugee column bombed by NATO had in fact been shelled by Serb artillery. On the 19th, he claimed that 3,000 men disappeared from Pristina in a single night--a night whose date he couldn't name. This followed Scharping's March 31st statement that Serbia had set up concentration camps, an allegation later quietly dropped. The Germans have apparently decided that the best way to purge that nagging ol' war guilt is to manufacture a new enemy just as bad as they were, and then destroy that enemy.
Now if they could only get their stories straight...

2. KLA Aggression. On Sunday, April 18th, BBC radio aired an interview with a KLA commander in Albania who warned that Macedonia faced a KLA insurrection after Macedonian officials confiscated 4 tons of KLA weaponry on their territory. Macedonia has also accused the KLA of kidnapping and forcibly enlisting Albanian men living in Macedonia.

3. NATO Disinformation. The NATO bombing of the refugee column revealed NATO's willingess to lie shamelessly. At first, NATO officials denied the slaughter; then they blamed the Serbs for having bombed the refugees with their own jets; then they claimed that after the NATO planes had bombed "only military objects," Serbs in the convoy went crazy and started shooting Albanian refugees. When televised images of charred, shredded corpses didn't jibe with a shoot-out, Germany's Rudolf "Al" Scharping said that the column had been attacked by Serb artillery.

4. Cowardice. The attack also revealed what wussies NATO are. The pilot was flying at 15,000 feet, the minimum altitude NATO commanders will allow for fear of Serb air defenses. That doesn't quite show the sort of resolve that will earn you the respect of your enemy--or allow you to distinguish refugees from military convoys.

5. Priorities. NATO's unapologetic official reaction to the refugee slaughter makes the whole moral-superiority argument a little difficult to swallow. It seems NATO is more concerned about losing a single pilot than crisping entire convoys of Albanians.

6. Irrational Numbers. NATO's estimate for the number of Albanians killed by the Serbs is suffering from hyperinflation. On April 17th, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea claimed that the Serbs had killed more than 3,200 Albanians. On April 18th, the U.S. ambassador for war crimes David Scheffer charged that 3,200 was "a very low estimate," and upped the figure to 100,000. Not to be outdone, the State Department issued a written report on Monday, April 19th, claiming that the number of Albanians killed could be as high as 500,000. It does seem odd that just when NATO has to admit having killed 75 refugees, Albanian victims of Serb brutality increase fifteen-fold overnight.

7. Lotsa Little Hitlers! The eXile was right: this war is good news for European Fascist politicians. In the first elections held by a neighboring country, a radical right-wing nationalist party stormed to a close second in Turkey's parliamentary elections last Sunday. The Nationalist Action Party (MHP), which failed to clear the 10 percent hurdle in 1995, earned 130 seats this time, just behind the ruling party of the left. Expect more of the same throughout Southern Europe.

8. Expulsion or Detention? On Friday, April 16th, UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski accused Serbia of trying "...to expel the
entire ethnic [Albanian] population of Kosovo." On Monday, April 19th, Janowski claimed that Albanians "are being forcibly prevented from leaving Kosovo." Which is it?

9. The Phantom Air Force. Does Yugoslavia still have an air force or not? It was supposedly devastated in the first few days of the war. Then the Pentagon falsely claimed that Serbian rather than NATO jets had strafed the refugee columns. On the day of the mistaken bombing, April 14th, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon claimed that the Yugoslav air force was using helicopters and aircraf against KLA positions. How could those ancient MiGs still be flying? Don't we control the air?

10. "Refugee Reports...." The fact that Albanian refugees were willing to say that Serb jets had bombed them, or that Serb troops had killed them, casts serious doubts on the reliability of these "Albanian refugees" as sources, since NATO has admitted that it was responsible for the attack.

11. Mo' Money! Clinton just asked Congress for an extra $6 billion to fund the war. Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Bozhkov is asking for $500 million compensation. Greece claims that its tourist industry, its largest money-maker, has collapsed. And who's going to pay for all this? Well, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R -KS) last weekend reported that "The (Clinton) administration has told (Congress) the U.S. has agreed to pay for 25 percent of the cost for rebuilding what we are now destroying."

12. Kosovo-Nam? Sen. Max Cleland, a wheelchair-bound hero of the Vietnam War, is raising the spectre of another Vietnam: "Vietnam...was both no win and no exit. We can't afford to repeat that mistake in Kosovo. We either have to come up with a policy to win militarily, or come up with a good exit strategy or both."

13. No Respect. We're even getting dissed by lady Mormons! In an April 18th Reuters article, Valerie Hudson, a foreign policy professor at Brigham Young University, questioned Clinton's policy and concluded, "Americans are now worried about looking like the biggest idiots on the world stage."

14. Mad Albright? The following is an excerpt from General Colin Powell's book My American Journey: "My constant, unwelcome message at all the meetings on Bosnia was simply that we should not commit military forces....Madeleine Albright, our ambassador to the UN, asked me in frustration, 'What's the point of having this superb military...if we can't use it?'"

2. It wouldn't have seemed possible a few months ago, but this war has given Russia the opportunity to seize the moral high ground on the world stage. When the Serbs refused to give in, the West increased the ferocity of the air attacks, killing over 1,000 civilians thus far. In other words, we're doing what the Russians did in Chechnya, but whereas the West kept conspicuously quiet about the Russian mass slaughter, the Russian government and people have been shocked and vocally outraged by NATO's "barbaric aggression." And the worst thing of all is... they're right!

3. Trying to bring the Serbs to heel by making them suffer won't work; these people have too much practice at suffering. After their army was slaughtered by the Turks at the Battle of Kosovo Field in 1389, things started getting a little bit rough for the Serbs. Though many Serb uprisings were brutally suppressed, the Serbs slowly drove the Turks out, eventually "liberating" Kosovo in a series of blood-drenched battles. In 1914, the Serbs were overrun by the Central Powers.The Serbs lost one-fourth of their population during the war; two-thirds of its male population between the ages of 15 and 55 perished. World War Two was even worse. After being overrun by a Nazi blitzkrieg, the Serbs found themselves at the mercy of the Nazis' Croat puppet regime, the Ustashe, who killed over a million people in death camps so horrible they repelled even the SS.
Meanwhile, the Serbs somehow managed to pin down eight divisions of Nazi infantry, the Italians, a Bosnian Muslim SS Division--and wage a bitter civil war against fellow Serbs. In all, one-fourth of the Serb population died during WW II. Toss in a respectable number of dead Serbs since the wars in Croatia and Bosnia started earlier this decade, and you get the idea: bombing will not scare these people.

4. Why do American troops have to go in at all? Why should kids from Ohio and New Mexico have to die in Kosovo? Kosovo is part of Europe, and every one of the big Western European countries has a huge, expensive army. Any one of these armies--French, Italian, German or British--ought to be able to take Kosovo on its own. After all, the ostensible goal of
"preventing further instability in the region" is an end that would benefit any of these countries directly, while it benefits the United States hardly at all.

7. After the Gulf War, the US had everybody believing in air power again. The bombing of Serbia is going to destroy that
belief. The USAF trains in Nevada, and the less a landscape resembles Nevada, the less effective American air power.
Iraq looks just like Nevada; Kosovo looks more like Vietnam.

9. In 1941, the Nazi puppet state of Croatia wanted to solve the Serb Question once and for all... not by mass expulsions, but by extermination. Out of 6.3 million people in the new Croat state, there were 1.9 million Serbs.
Official documents show that the Ustashe government planned to exterminate or convert every one of them. Within weeks
after the Nazi takeover, Croats set to massacring Serbs in a variety of ways, including a documented favorite trick:
throwing Serb mothers with their children off cliffs, by the hundreds. By mid-1941, even the Germans started complaining.
Here is a quote from an SS report: "The Ustashe units have carried out their atrocities not only against male Orthodox of military age, but in particular in the most bestial fashion against unarmed old men, women and children..." The Croats set up several concentration camps, including the infamous Jasenovic death camp, which is to Serbs what Auschwitz is to Jews . This camp is notorious not just because hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies were killed there (Serbs claim a million Serbs were killed at Jasenovic), but because of the way they were killed:
butchered with knives, like pigs. In all, the Serbs are said to have lost some one million people just to Croat death camps and massacres. If it is unthinkable that the Bundeswehr could be called in to bomb Tel Aviv in order to force the Jews to sign a peace agreement with the Palestinians, then why can we order German bombers to attack Belgrade with a clear conscience?

10. Serbs are now comparing NATO to the Nazis. Here's why.
The Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia in April, 1941, began with the relentless bombardment of Belgrade, flattening most of the city before a ground invasion by troops from Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria. Three of those four are now NATO members. Modern German bombers, ominously sporting iron cross Luftwaffe markings, are targeting Serb cities. And now, once again, Germans, Italians and Hungarians are preparing to invade.

11. The Gulf War left Western armies looking good. Kosovo is going to make us look very bad. Like the Israelis, the Americans and their allies in the Gulf War built a reputation fighting pitiful Arab conscripts who, as Sam Kinison said, would've surrendered to a video camera. ("Give up or I'll zoom!") Serbs are not Iraqis. They believe in their cause, know how to fight, and can operate in small units. Western armies don't do well against this sort of opponent.

12. The parallels of this conflict to World War I are so obvious, it's amazing that the West has chosen to ignore them. In 1914, a major European power (Austria-Hungary) declared war on Serbia after it refused to acquiesce to its demands; a group of similarly powerful nations bound by alliances (Britain, Russia) then decided to back Serbia; and in a flash, millions of people were dying all over Europe.
Wasn't the whole point of that chapter in the history textbook to teach kids how not to start a World War--to learn to back off when a minor regional conflict threatens to escalate into an irreversible global nightmare?

15. How many Americans could find Kosovo on a map of the world? There should be entrance exams for warmongers.

19. Nuke Alert! Russian General Anatoly Kvashnin, Yeltsin's Chief of Staff, announced last week that Russia was prepared
to use tactical nuclear weapons to stop NATO aggression.

22. Has anyone thought about the peculiar logic behind NATO's "peace mission" in Kosovo? They dragged the warring parties to some two-bit pastry shop called Rambouillet, held a gun to their heads, and said, "If you don't sign our peace deal and allow us to protect ethnic group #1, then we're going to bomb and kill ethnic group #2!" After arm-twisting the Albanians into signing a deal that they didn't believe in, we carried out our threat. We bombed the Serbs on behalf of the Albanians, assuming, like Dr. Evil, that everything would go to plan.
No contingency planning at all. For example, no plan on how to counter the obvious and natural reaction of the Serbs to take all of their Tomahawk-inspired fury out on a totally defenseless Kosovar population. NATO's reply? "They were going to do it anyway." In fact, CIA leaks show that Clinton was warned that bombing could spark mass ethnic cleansing.

23. NATO bombing is making a hero out of Milosevic. Similarly, there once was a guy named Dzhokar Dudayev. The Russians blamed him for all their problems in Chechnya. By 1994, Dudayev's popularity was declining. Then the Russians
invaded, bombed, slaughtered... and Dudayev became a national hero. So the Russians figured all they'd have to do is kill Dudayev, and the war would be over. So they killed him, and made him a national martyr. And then got their asses slaughtered in Grozny, and had to surrender to the Chechens. So far, we've made Milosevic, whose popularity was shaky at best, into a national hero, an achievement which stands exactly counter to our stated objective.

24. If ethnic massacres bother us so much, why didn't we send troops to stop the massacre of a half-million Tutsi in Rwanda? Why did we back the Russian bloodbath in Chechnya?
Why did the US defend Pol Pot when the Vietnamese interrupted his autogenocide?
What's happening in Kosovo is a parking-lot scuffle compared to these horrors, so why are we going in?

25. The Albanian partisan group we're promoting, the Kosovar Liberation Army, has been identified by several sources as a
mafia-backed gang of heroin dealers. According to a March 24th article in the Times of London, "police forces in three Western European countries, together with Europol, the European police authority, are separately investigating growing evidence that drug money is funding the KLA's leap from obscurity to power..." Police sources in Germany have made plain their suspicions: the sudden ascendancy of Kosovan Albanians in the heroin trade in Switzerland, Germany and Scandinavia coincides with the sudden growth of the KLA from a ragamuffin peasants' army two years ago to a 30,000-strong force equipped with grenade launchers, anti-tank weapons and AK47s.

31. A few decades ago, Bill Clinton didn't seem to worry too much about the fate of American POWs in Vietnam when he first burned his draft card, then snagglepussed his way across the Atlantic to smoke joints and beat off in bathroom stalls at Oxford. Now he may soon expect us to believe that he feels so outraged by the sight of those three bloodied American POWs that his administration would feel comfortable, and even duty-bound, to commit legions of college-age Americans to a savage ground war with no end in sight.

33. Name one Albanian!

37. We bombed Serbia on Easter Sunday, needlessly offending about 500 million Christians worldwide. Now the Serbs are
offering an Orthodox Easter ceasefire, which we've pledged to ignore with reckless abandon.

38. If we're doing this to score some points with the Islamic world, why invade Kosovo, which means nothing to Muslims? Why not liberate Jerusalem and blast the Israelis off the Dome of the Rock?

40. In 1809, the Turks built a tower in the town of Nis. It was made of the skulls of Serbs who had tried to rebel. The Turks first skinned and stuffed the heads as souvenirs, then used 1,000 skulls for the tower. This kind of thing has happened to the Serbs rather often. Remember it when you judge them.

41. Some more perspective on the American perception of unilateral Serbian aggression: in 1915, during World War I, the Serbian army, having been overrun by a combined Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian and German force, was forced to retreat through Kosovo. Over a quarter of a million Serb troops and refugees, weak from cold and hunger, passed through Albanian village after village, and they weren't exactly treated to Gatorade and crushed ice. An eyewitness account, published in 1920, records: "The Albanians killed those who had become isolated, chopping their heads off with axe blows. Then they seized the uniform of the dead man and, disguised as Serbian soldiers so as to allay any suspicion, they killed other unhappy men by luring them into ambushes." Of the quarter million soldiers and refugees on the run through Kosovo, over half died.

44. The Greens Party of Germany has long been famous for its pacifism-- until this war. Today, the Greens Party is part of the coalition that rules Germany. The Green's platform had been total demilitarization and a withdrawal from NATO.
When Green leader Joschka Fischer was named Foreign Minister, he decided, aw, to hell with it! Although he insists he's still a pacifist, he wholeheartedly backs the Luftwaffe's bombing of Belgrade. Fischer has sold out in every way possible. He no longer opposes nuclear power, no longer wants to tax energy, no longer wants to lower the speed limit to 100km/hr... hell, he doesn't even wear casual wear anymore, proudly trading in his trademark sneakers and leather jacket for brogan wingtips and a pinstripe suit. The unleashing of the tree-hugging lesbian nazi yuppie: just another reason to oppose NATO bombing.

45. Javier Solana, elected NATO Secretary-General in 1996, was the leader of a 1980s movement protesting Spain's entrance into NATO.

49. If we send ground troops, it will be a NATO operation, which means American troops will die under Eurotrash command. Do you want your cousin to walk into an ambush under Belgian orders?

53. NATO committed a series of rhetorical blasphemies to drum up support for the action. Here's one word they shouldn't have used, but did:
Genocide. (n) The systematic, planned extermination of a racial or ethnic group. (Greek: genos, race + -CIDE, Latin: caedere, to kill).
On March 29th, British Defense Minister George Robertson said: ``We are confronting a regime which is intent on genocide," while German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping said on the same day that the Serbs were committing a genocide. Folks, in a genocide, you don't let a single refugee go. You kill every single one of them, either out of hatred or because you fear they might come back some day. The Serbs don't qualify. Just so we don't forget, "genocide" means to kill everyone in a race. The Serbs are doing something else: savagely expelling a hostile ethnic group from territory it claims as its own. There are many precedents for this. In 1945, the Czechs expelled over two million ethnic Germans from the Sudetenland, causing horrific human tragedies in the name of ethnically cleansing their nation. No one called that a genocide. It was evil and horrible, but it wasn't a genocide. As of this past Tuesday, the UN was using words like "extreme brutality and ruthlessness," and "mass deportations" to describe the Serb actions, while Britain had toned it down to "brutal ethnic cleansing." This week, now that the West might be forced to take in refugees exactly because they've falsely raised the moral stakes so high, the word "genocide" has been dropped, meaning we can intern them behind barbed-wire at Guantanamo Bay with a clear conscience.

54. We have driven Ukraine back into alliance with Russia. Prior to this bombing, Ukraine was still officially in the running for acceptance into NATO--an expansion of the alliance which would have represented an enormous coup for the West, and a nearly insurmountable obstacle to any conceivable Russian aggression. Now Ukraine is back in the Russian huddle. Ukraine for Albania--even Al Davis wouldn't make that trade.

55. NATO's bombing violates both the UN charter and NATO treaty itself. Article 2, section 7 of the UN Charter expressly forbids UN intervention "in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state...." Both the United States and NATO are signatories to the UN Charter and bound by it under international law.
By bombing Serbia without first getting Security Council approval, NATO broke the law. Making them war criminals. Not that we expect NATO to try itself in the Hague...

56. Every Serb has a rifle and knows how to use it. Serbs were trained in guerrilla warfare all through the Tito years, and there are bunkers, arms caches and shelters hidden all over Serbia. If NATO invades and occupies Serbia, the trouble will just be starting.

59. The world hates America more than ever, as evidenced by a spontaneous series of anti-American demonstrations on a scale not seen since the seventies. Here's a small list of all the anti-American demonstrations since March 24th.

* Formerly Western-leaning Montenegro last weekend brought out 30,000 demonstrators, or 5% of the republic's population, to rally against NATO and for Serbia
* Skopje, capital of Macedonia, was the scene of violent demonstrations on the first night of the bombing.
Demonstrators burned vehicles and tried storming the embassy, forcing US ambassador Chrisopher Hill to hide in the basement. Riot troops broke it up. Security has since been beefed up by the addition of Macedonian police, 40 Marines and an American anti-terrorist squad.
* On April 1st, over 10,000 people demonstrated in Paris calling for a return to the peace talks, Patras, Greece saw 4,000 people chanting anti-U.S. and anti-NATO slogans, and in Prague, 300 Czech and Serb residents demonstrated against the air strikes.
* On March 31st, some 2,500 Serbs demonstrated in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana against NATO air strikes; approximately 3,000 people demonstrated in front of the U.S. Information Center in Podgorica, Montenegro, denouncing both the U.S. and the Montenegran governments.
* some 5,000 people pelted the U.S. consulate in Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki, with stones, firecrackers, and eggs on the evening of March 29, in protest of NATO air strikes in Yugoslavia. It follows other major demonstrations last week in Athens and on March 28 outside the U.S. military base on Crete.
* On March 27, several thousand people, mostly supporters of the reformed communist party, PDS, demonstrated against NATO in Berlin. About 700-1,300 people demonstrated in The Hague and some of them were arrested for throwing rocks at the German embassy. In Italy, several thousand people participated in demonstrations in Milan and Rome. Also, about a thousand demonstrators demolished the U.S. embassy in Cyprus. In Romanian Timosoara, about 1,100 people, mostly Romanian Serbs and supporters of far-right Romania Mare party, demonstrated against NATO attacks.
About a thousand Serbs also held a protest at the gates outside Downing Street in London.
* Not to mention Moscow...

60. Desperate to keep "democratic" Russia afloat and out of the hands of communist or nationalist extremists, the U.S. has been forced, once again, to engineer a loan to the Yeltsin government through the IMF. Since the Russian government has pledged to help the Serbs, the U.S. will therefore be pledging military assistance to its own enemies.

68. Kosovo was the cradle of Serb civilization before it was cleansed by Turk invaders who dispersed the Kosovo Serbs throughout the Balkans. While the Albanians have been a majority for quite some time, it hasn't come without its spells of mass ethnic cleansing of Serbs. In 1941, after the Italians took control of Greater Albania, the Kosovo Albanians immediately set about slaughtering Serbs, forcing the Italians to intervene. It is estimated that 100,000 Serbs fled their homes in Kosovo in 1941 alone. Also, the Albanians have the highest birth rate of any people in Europe, while the Serbs seem to have been slaughtered at a greater rate than any people. This might help explain the ethnic imbalance between the two in what is claimed to be Serbia's heartland.

71. Despite its moral posturing about Serb ethnic cleansing, NATO itself has provided air cover for the same kinds of atrocities it now accuses the Serbs of committing. In 1995, NATO planes, responding to what many now suspect was a Bosnian-government-staged massacre of Muslim civilians, attacked and crippled the Bosnian Serb army with punishing air assaults. At the same time, a massive two-pronged ground assault was unleashed on the Serbs both from Croatia into Serb-populated Krajina and from the Muslim-Croat alliance into Serb-populated regions of central and west Bosnia. Nearly all of Croatia's 600,000 Serbs were brutally expelled, fulfilling Ante Pavelic's Ustashe dream. Several hundred thousand more Bosnian Serbs were uprooted in the Croat-Muslim offensive within Bosnia. Altogether, in a matter of weeks, up to a million Serbs were ethnically cleansed. No one knows how many died.

72. The Serbs are one of the tallest, most beautiful European tribes. Somalis, too, are tall and elegant, as are the Tutsi, who actually call themselves `'The Tall People." Why are the most beautiful tribes being wiped out by the squat and ugly?

73. When President Clinton first asked Congress over three years ago to authorize sending American troops to Bosnia as part of SFOR peacekeeping troops, he promised they'd be home in six months. According to Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX),
 "The years have passed, more than $20 billion has been spent, and our soldiers are still there. Very few seriously ask anymore when these troops are coming home - or even what it is they are supposed to be accomplishing."

75. Ask five people you know if they've heard how many Serbs have been killed or maimed so far in the bombing.

76. Then ask those same five people if they've seen the videotape of the three captured American POWs.

80. Here's how you die in the kind of war we're starting: you're standing in the hatch of your APC as it rolls through a wooded valley in Kosovo when suddenly your head jerks to the right and pops like a zit, splattering your brains over the hood of the APC. About a second later, your crewmates hear the crack of a hunting rifle from somewhere in the woods. Your APC can't get up there. You call for air support, but the Apaches don't go in close to sweep the woods anymore because they've been taking too many hits from shoulder-fired SAMs. Your unit has two choices: do nothing, or blow the nearest Serb village to bits in reprisal. Either way, the Serbs get stronger and the NATO occupying army gets weaker.

83. We'll get tired of the whole mess and leave--and when we do, the Albanians will suffer alone. There won't be a single photo of their suffering in any of the Western media, because they will be old news.

86. America's top brass was against the bombing. According to the April 5th edition of the Washington Post, the American military's top command argued against Madeleine Albright's reasoning that "losing" Kosovo would eventually destabilize the entire Balkans. They also said bombing Serbia would likely lead to a sharp escalation in the war against the Kosovo Albanians.

89. Now that Ukraine and Belarus have been forced back into alliance with Russia, the three countries are talking about
 redeploying nuclear weapons which were withdrawn to Russia in Ukraine and Belarus.

92. We've just about smoked our last pack of cruise missiles, and our bag of stealth planes is dented. Guess who's paying for the next trip to the store?

94. America cares so much about Albanians, they're taking in 20,000 refugees-and putting them in a barbed wire compound
on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...

95. The Germans initially pledged to accept 40,000 Albanian refugees. Now they say they'll only take 10,000.

96. In contrast, tiny Macedonia has been saddled with over 130,000 refugees. Its prime minister, Llubco Georgievski, accused NATO of dumping the whole refugee problem on Macedonia and called NATO "completely irresponsible" this past Tuesday for ignoring warnings that NATO airstrikes would trigger a humanitarian disaster.

100. The strength of the KLA would seem to belie President Clinton's claim that the Serbs planned to ethnically cleanse
Kosovo this spring "all along anyway." The KLA only appeared in February of last year. They announced themselves by launching terrorist attacks on Serb police and villagers. By early-mid summer, some estimates were that the KLA had controlled up to two-thirds of Kosovo. The big powers only got involved when the Yugoslav forces retaliated and retook most of Kosovo, which is, after all, internationally recognized as an integral part of Yugoslavia. Furthermore, although the operation was by no means civilized, the number of casualties-roughly 800 dead total on both sides during last year's battles-was remarkably low compared to the opening months of the Bosnian war, when it's estimated by some that tens of thousands were slaughtered and raped.

101. "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