Posted on 03/24/2017 1:10:27 PM PDT by Ravnagora
One of those moments you never forget: 18 years ago, before the dawn on March 25, 1999, I stepped outside the door to find The New York Times there on the ground with the headline announcing that NATO had begun its bombing campaign against the Serbs in the former Yugoslavia on March 24, 1999. I remember looking at that front page of the paper before picking it up and thinking - "They are really doing it... It's no longer a threat... It's real... It's real... What a mistake... What a mistake..." Then I picked up the paper and went back inside. So began a cruel 78 bombing campaign against Serbia, by the NATO allies, which included the time span over the Easter holiday and my family's Christian Patron Saint's Day - our Krsna Slava, St. Lazarus Saturday - which falls a week before Serbian Orthodox Easter.
I love America. Always have. Always will. But that bombing campaign in the Spring of 1999, yet another horrific mistep in American foreign policy against the Christian Serbs that had spanned throughout the decade of the 1990s beginning with the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, was a mistake of GIANT proportions. The Serbians had always been one of America's most steadfast and loyal Allies and certainly her best friend in the Balkans for sure. What hurts the most is that now so many Serbians no longer consider America a friend or an ally and have no wish to be either of those to America. That is the real tragedy. The WRONG people were targeted. The WRONG people were punished. The WRONG people in the Balkans were alienated.
The NATO bombing campaign of 1999 against the Serbs stands as one of the most unjust acts of aggression in the history of the world. I can only hope and pray that, at the very least, some day there will be a public act of contrition in the form of a public apology from America, regardless of whether there is one from her NATO allies or not, and that this apology will resound for all the world to hear.
AMERICA OWES SERBIA THAT ACT OF REPENTANCE, AND MUCH MORE.
Sincerely,
Aleksandra Rebic
Chicago, IL
March 24, 2017
His devotion to Mohammed and all things Islamic.
That would be an act of contrition. A highly appropriate one. As a nation we are responsible for the monsters we elect to high offices.
Only French news carried the bombing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MWpb_SnJOk&list=PLRImknr7RoMBGmYrNkKoa9v7zksfCp55Z&index=32
So THIS is what we did.
IDIOCY.
They rescued our fliers, we did THAT to them, and we got NOTHING.
Amazing how the only Chinese diplomats killed in that *mistaken* *accidental* bombing were the Chinese military attaches involved in the purchase of secret LORAL guidance system information for intercontinental missiles. The Clinton Foundation thanks you for your sacrifice, Comrades!
Lessay the number of Mexicans in San Diego sky-rockets:
Russia comes along and says, “Well, sure, the Ethnic Mexicans in SoCal yearn for a homeland of their own. We are bombing the Continental USA to assist these upstanding Freedom Fighters”
How would WE feel..?
The “Ethnic Albanians” were muslim activists whose main cultural feature is crime and FEUDING.
And sure enough, later Kosovo —which was legally part of Serbia— later declared their independence.
We blew up EVERY SINGLE bridge over the Danube.
The muslims in Kosovo were pulling the same stunts as they are in France, Germany and Sweden abusing children, rape etc.. the Serbs got annoyed and called the Communist party on it and the leadership responded, mostly Milosovic, he promised to look after the Serbs in Kosovo, and the rest is history
A Serb village had mercy on them, took them in.
Later as US Secretary of State SHE BOMBED THAT VILLAGE.
Verrrry macho.
Folks who should swing from a rope:
Albright
Clinton
Clarke
Cohen
Please feel free to add.
PS: Clarke should roast alive for his role on Waco, btw.
“God Bless the Serbian people. “
God Bless the Serbian People. Indeed.
IMHO Vladimir Putin is positioning himself to become the Emperor of a reconstitituted Byzantium, and, I say, the sooner the better.
Sorry, but just like the US civil war, this was not America’s doing but Democrats’
KLINTOONS will pay for this mass murder.
sorry dude
totally wrong
Clinton bombed Belgrade and that was a war crime
Make the Clinton foundation Pay.
BTTT
GOOD!!!!
By the way, Joyous Feast (Holy Annunciation)!!!!
There is something more important to grasp here. Serbia was a two-bit nation attacked with all the might of U.S. and NATO, it was 300:1 gang rape. And what was the result after 78 days of bombing and 20,000 plus sorties? 58 destroyed tanks and several thousand civilians murdered. It was a terror bombing because NATO had no balls, no brains,no clout and overated technology. American adversaries took careful notes. F117a and B1 became obsolete overnight, tens of billions lost. India went nuclear. Russia got rid of a drunken Yeltsin and Russia, China,India and Persia got together for the first time in history.
New American Century ended before it even started, with the terror attack on Serbia in 1999.
This was a defining moment of the 21 century, the entire world saw that the Emperor is naked. That he is broke and corrupted to the core became obvious several years later.
Serbia got her heart, Kosovo,ripped out by America and given to islamofascist scum.
America met her own Kosovo soon afterwards.
It is a lose-lose for Serbia and the U.S. and win for the islamofascists and the banking cabal.
It was an interesting time. It was my first experience of using the Internet (via some crude chat they had at the time) to talk to strangers over there in real time about what was going on.
At first I went at it with the assumption that the US was on the right side, naturally... but the more I talked to people over there (on both sides) the more I had to scratch my head wondering what the heck we were doing.
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