and instead “tried to create a new ethnic reality on the ground”(2). The third reason for the intervention was that “if Belgrade’s policy of deliberate displacement of the Kosovo-Albanians were not energetically opposed, even more instability and blood shed would have been the result”(2). The article ends with a message to the Yugoslav people that NATO is at war with the Yugoslav government not with their people, and expresses the concern for “peace and long-term stability”(3). Oberg wrote his article on July 15, 1999, after the KFOR troupes had entered Kosova. First of all Oberg suggests that Western countries have not shown their concern to resolve the conflict, stating that “when it comes to risking Western lives for them, they crumble.” He contradicts Solana’s declaration that NATO was being in war with Yugoslav government and not its people, by giving statistics that display a bigger damage caused on the civilian than on military targets. In another point of disagreement with the intervention, Oberg presents the fact that NATO did not intervene in other parts of the world with “much more serious human rights violations”(2). Oberg’s article strongly focuses on the NATO support to KLA by arming them, while not giving any political support to moderate Albanian leader Rugova. He also writes about the US media contradicting itself with regard to KLA:The West supports ‘terrorists’. The US and the West have no qualms by being allied with what the US envoy, Robert Gelbard, in early 1998 called a terrorist organization, namely the KLA or UCK (Oberg 3). Oberg implies that NATO spent a lot of money on the military intervention and now when it comes to “much cheaper early violence-preventive diplomacy, peaceful humanitarian intervention and postwar civilian peacekeeping consistently lack resources”(2). But on the other hand, Solana declared ...
