Letter: U.S. should get out of Kosovo

Tuesday, June 8, 1999 | 9:30 a.m.

This is not the first time that the U.N. or its subsidiaries have mounted an aggressive military action in defiance of the U.N. Charter's "domestic jurisdiction" clause.

The best guarantee of human rights is a multiplicity of independent and sovereign nation-states in which the government is ruled by law.

The Founding Fathers understood that while individual rights are universal, the greatest danger to those rights would be an unchecked central government, whether national or international in scope.

Under the version of "international law" we see at work in Kosovo, there are no protections against a despotic world government.

The war in Kosovo is against the principle of national sovereignty.

Will the U.S. one day regret fighting the war when its submerged purpose becomes widely understood?

It is true that we must win the Kosovo war -- which means that we have to defeat the threat to our sovereignty and national well being that is behind this illegal war.

The only way America can "win" in the Kosovo war is to pull out of it immediately -- and then to withdraw our nation from both NATO and the United Nations.

FRANK PELTESON