Kissinger: Washington without  
                   a long-term strategy  
 

                           Catastrophic mistakes of the US  foreign policy under  
                           current  administration in Washington are  once again  
                           being  criticized by the former US Foreign Minister Henry  
                           Kissinger,  who, in a text published  in Los Angeles Times, 
                           indicates that  Clinton's clique carries out a  policy without  
                           a long-term strategy.  
 
 
                   In a text published by the L. A. Times, titled "How the 
                   U.S. Is Wasting Its Global Predominance", Kissinger 
                   makes certain evaluations of foreign policy of the 
                   administration guided by internal turmoil and pressure 
                   exerted by the local groups, at the same time pointing to 
                   a total fiasco that Washington suffered launching the 
                   military intervention against FRY. Kissinger is labeling 
                   the policy of the current administration as a series of 
                   incoherent decisions regarding specific crises, claiming 
                   that these decisions by no means represent a strategic 
                   whole. Clinton's team is preoccupied with the local 
                   political scene and its engagement in a "new time" in 
                   which the so-called humanitarianism plays the central 
                   role. 

                   "Ironically, Clinton's administration has, more than any 
                   other team after the WW II, been resolute to use 
                   military  force", said the former US high official, 
                   who is considered an eminent person whose words and 
                   political evaluations draw much attention. 

                   Looking back, Kissinger stated that the US does not 
                   even come close to the achievements of the Roman and 
                   British empires, transforming its power into a 
                   consensus, and its principles into widely accepted 
                   norms. 

                   For the outside observers, the decisions made by 
                   Washington seam highly arbitrary, said Kissinger, and 
                   added that this kind of behaviour of the US officials has 
                   led, apart from everything else, to the regrouping of 
                   nations which are trying to achieve greater liberty on 
                   the  national and regional level. 

                   The habit of making one-sided decisions after the end of 
                   the cold war was continued regardless of what the 
                   reaction from the rest of the world and other nations 
                   might be and what the price would be. Kissinger also 
                   added that, as a reaction, there were ongoing major 
                   events in the world. 

                   As the key tendencies, he stated inclinations to create 
                   the "Asian block", increasing resistance of South 
                   America, while in Europe the EU decided to form its 
                   own military forces. 

                   Criticizing the US policy regarding the Golf and Iraq, 
                   the former US State Secretary reminded that the 
                   bombing of Iraq commenced without any political 
                   request, and ended without any "political benefit" to the 
                   US. 

                   As to the bombing of FR Yugoslavia, Kissinger labeled 
                   it as "the most dramatic use of NATO military power 
                   since WW II". 

                   "The fact that during the 78-day bombing that was 
                   destroying the infrastructure of Serbia, a country that 
                   represents no strategic threat, best illustrates the 
                   emotional prioritizing of the administration", Kissinger 
                   said ironically. 

                   Washington and London kept talking about their 
                   "humanitarian foreign policy as a progressive 
                   alternative to the traditional diplomacy". Life, said 
                   Kissinger, proved to be much more complicated. "The 
                   Kosovo intervention did not solve the political 
                   problem." 

                   "NATO occupation of Kosovo is based on the UN 
                   Resolution which describes in detail Kosovo as a 
                   sovereign part of Yugoslavia and certifies the territorial 
                   integrity and sovereignty of the entire FR Yugoslavia." 

                   Furthermore, Kissinger stated that in the name of 
                   humanitarian foreign policy, NATO placed itself in a 
                   position in which it condemned itself either of the 
                   long-term occupation of Kosovo, or of seeking a 
                   different approach to the UN, which would allow an 
                   independent Kosovo. However, the 
                   independent Kosovo is just the thing all NATO 
                   countries are trying to avoid. 

                   At the end of this commentary, the former US Foreign 
                   Minister stated that the moral lectures could not replace 
                   historical evolution, neither could the foreign policy be 
                   defined with final solutions. The worst would be if the 
                   policy should be formulated on the basis of myth, 
                   current public opinion or self-illusion, said Henry 
                   Kissinger in the text published in the Los Angeles Times 
                   in which he, once again, criticized the fatal foreign 
                   policy of the current US administration.