1993年北约对南斯拉夫的袭击，西方将其描述为南斯拉夫顽固拒绝任何合理和平方案的结果，尤其是它拒绝在科索沃执行和平方案的国际安全部队计划。西方的干预，以及随后北约的轰炸行动，被不断用作证据，证明当前的“反恐战争”并非针对伊斯兰，并且西方将为了“人道主义”目的在世界各地进行干预，甚至像他们在1993年所做的那样帮助穆斯林。克林顿总统的前助理、国务院发言人詹姆斯·鲁宾（James Rubin）于2003年就持这种观点。

The NATO attack on Yugoslavia in 1993, was presented by the West as the consequence of Yugoslavia’s stubborn refusal to settle for any reasonable peace plan - in particular its rejection of plans for an international security force to implement a peace plan in Kosovo. Intervention by the West and then the eventual bombing campaign by NATO is continually held as evidence that the current ‘war on terror’ is not a war on Islam and that the West will intervene across the world for ‘humanitarian’ purposes, even helping Muslims as they apparently did in 1993. James Rubin former assistant to President Bill Clinton and state department spokesman advocated such a view in 2003.

他说:"美国入侵伊拉克,挥霍了其多年来通过推动人权、在科索沃以及后来在波斯尼亚拯救穆斯林免遭屠杀所积累起来的道义权威。

He said: ‘By invading Iraq, America has squandered the moral authority built up over years of promoting human rights, saving Muslims from slaughter in Kosovo, and belatedly in Bosnia.

然而,实际上其地缘政治目的却大不相同。20世纪90年代巴尔干地区的政治动荡,因美国决心削弱俄罗斯在该地区的影响力、增加欧洲对其的依赖,并在冷战后北约似乎日益失去存在必要时为其重新赋予新的合法性而进一步加剧。

In reality however the geopolitical aims were very different. The political instability in the Balkans during the 1990’s was exacerbated by American determination to reduce Russia’s influence in the region, increase Europe’s dependency upon her and confer new legitimacy to NATO when it appeared increasingly redundant after the Cold War.

西方列强，特别是美国和英国，致力于南斯拉夫的分裂，这一点在冲突爆发之前的1992年1月，时任美国驻南斯拉夫大使沃伦·齐默尔曼（Warren Zimmerman）便已透露：“我们的目标是将南斯拉夫解体为独立的国家。”8 1992年3月18日，欧盟在里斯本促成了一项协议，各方为波斯尼亚穆斯林、克罗地亚人和塞尔维亚社群，协议将塞尔维亚共和国划分为三个基于族群的州，它们将作为一个邦联运作，构成一个独立国家。这一协议遭到美国的破坏：美国敦促波斯尼亚总统阿利亚·伊泽特贝戈维奇（Alija Izetbegovic）撕毁协议，宣布建国，并称“这是有3月1日公投为依据的”。西欧联盟秘书长何塞·库蒂莱罗（Jose Cutileiro）证实：“公允地说，阿利亚·伊泽特贝戈维奇总统及其幕僚受到西方调停者的鼓动，去破坏这项协议，并为建立统一的波斯尼亚国家而战。”这就是导致波斯尼亚内战的原因。

The Western powers and specifically both the US and Britain worked for the fragmentation of Yugoslavia as was revealed by the then US Ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmerman in January 1992 before the outbreak of hostilities: ‘we are aiming for a dissolution of Yugoslavia into independent states.’8 On the 18th March 1992 the EU brokered a deal in Lisbon among Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serb communities partitioning the Serb republic into three ethnically based cantons which would act as a confederation functioning as an independent state. This agreement was sabotaged by the US which urged the Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic to renege the deal by declaring statehood saying ‘this was justified by the referendum on March 1st.’. Jose Cutileiro, secretary general of the Western European union confirmed ‘to be fair President Alija Izethbegovic and his aids were encouraged to scupper the deal and to fight for a unitary Bosnian state by Western mediators.’ This is what caused the Bosnian civil war.

如今，约有11,000名部队驻扎在波斯尼亚、科索沃和马其顿，据称是为了维持和平；然而，这些部队实际上保障了美国的经济利益。前美国国会议员李·汉密尔顿在《纽约时报》上评论道："我们已经完全掌控了巴尔干。美国官员对前南斯拉夫的所有国家行使管理职能。我们实际上就是总督。"地缘政治专家卡伦·塔尔博特证实："美国和北约不惜一切代价要占领科索沃乃至几乎整个南斯拉夫，其动机受到丰富自然资源的诱惑所驱动。仅科索沃一地，就拥有欧洲俄罗斯以西最丰富的矿产资源。"《纽约时报》指出："庞大的国有特雷普察矿业综合体是巴尔干最有价值的资产，其价值至少为50亿美元，每年可产出金、银、精铅、锌、镉，并带来数千万美元的利润。科索沃还拥有170亿吨煤炭储量，科索沃（与塞尔维亚和阿尔巴尼亚一样）也拥有石油储备。"

Today 11,000 troops are stationed in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia allegedly for peace; however such troops have ensured US economic interests are secured. Former US congressman Lee Hamilton commented in the New York Times: ‘we have completely taken over the control of the Balkans. US officials exercise managing functions over all states of the former Yugoslavia. We are virtually the pro consul.’ Karen Talbot geopolitical expert confirmed ‘the determination by the U.S and NATO, at all costs, to occupy Kosovo and virtually all of Yugoslavia, is spurred on by the enticement of abundant natural resources. Kosovo alone has the richest mineral resources in all of Europe west of Russia.’ The New York Times observed that ‘the sprawling state-owned Trepca mining complex, the most valuable piece of real estate in the Balkans, is worth at least $5 billion, producing gold, silver, pure lead, zinc, cadmium, as well as tens of millions of dollars in profits annually. Kosovo also possesses 17 billion tons of coal reserves and Kosovo (like Serbia and Albania) also has oil reserves.

时任总统比尔·克林顿曾不经意间说漏嘴："如果我们要建立一种牢固的经济关系，使我们能够向全世界销售产品，欧洲就必须成为关键……科索沃问题的根源正在于此。"

President Bill Clinton at the time let slip ‘If we are going to have a strong economic relationship that includes our ability to sell around the world, Europe has got to be a key…That‘s what the Kosovo thing was all about.

自轰炸结束以来，美国在巴尔干地区设立了众多军事基地。科索沃正在兴建一座军事基地，据称这是越战以来美国在海外建造的最大基地。美国在北约中的主导地位意味着北约部队对巴尔干地区的介入将确保美国在该地区的影响力。一份泄露的五角大楼1994至1999年《国防规划指南》报告版本建议，美国“必须设法阻止欧洲自行安排安全机制的出现，因为这将削弱北约……因此，维护北约作为西方防务与安全的首要工具，以及美国影响和参与欧洲安全事务的渠道，具有根本重要性。”

Since the bombing has ended, numerous US bases in the Balkans have been set up. A military base is being built in Kosovo, described as the largest US foreign base built since the Vietnam War. US domination of NATO meant intervention by NATO forces in the Balkans would ensure US influence in the region. A leaked version of the Pentagon’s 1994-1999 Defense Planning Guidance report advises that the United States ‘must seek to prevent the emergence of European-only security arrangements which would undermine NATO...Therefore, it is of fundamental importance to preserve NATO as the primary instrument of Western defense and security, as well as the channel for US influence and participation in European security affairs.

这些都证实了，美国和西方干预背后的地缘政治目的，正是遏制俄罗斯的影响力、控制里海的石油，以及重振北约（以延续美国的影响力）。

This all confirms that the influence of Russia, the oil in the Caspian Sea and the revitalisation of NATO (to continue US influence) were the geopolitical aims behind US and Western intervention.

成千上万无辜者的生命，以及在斯雷布雷尼察被屠杀者的生命，都是美国为维持其持续统治地位所付出的代价，这是值得的。

The lives of thousands of innocent people and the lives of those slaughtered in Srebrenica were a price worth paying by the US for continued US dominance.