Posted on 01/15/2010 5:11:40 AM PST by wendy1946
I pretty much had to see Avatar despite major kinds of ideological misgivings...
Aside from anything else, I had a funny sort of a feeling of deja-vu watching the thing. A small, innocent, naive, and spiritually oriented nation of some kind has something which some sort of a great power wants, and some ultimate high-tech military organization gets turned loose on them... Where have I heard that story before?? I mean, the only thing wrong with the analogy was that the Pandorans in the film weren't really getting ****ed over badly enough for the analogy to really work. For instance, they didn't get any petrochemical plants (like Pancevo) bombed out so as to dump hundreds of tons of toxic chemicals into their most major river or have their entire civilian infrastructure bombed out...
It occurs to me that somebody needs to make a movie about the Kosovo operation and tell this hideous story to the American public; they've never really heard the story.
It starts with environmental whackos shutting down every sort of oil drilling or refining operation in the great power for 40 years and the great power's rulers wanting to appease the geriatric lunatic ruler of Saudi Arabia, who wants the sacred heart of the innocent small nation as a toehold for Islam in Southern Europe. That could be scene one.
Scene two could show a perverted psychopath of some sort being elected president of the great power and subsequently needing to take credible allegations of rape and sales of nuclear weapon secrets to the Chinese off of newspaper headlines. Scene two could also show 30 general officers leaving the great power's military and being replaced by people more in tune with the times...
Scene three could show the American and NATO militaries trying to bomb Kosovo from 25,000' for three or four weeks before realizing that they could not harm the small country's military from Earth orbit. It could then show the psychopath general in charge of the operation determining to embark upon an entire campaign of war crimes, bombing out the entire civilian infrastructure of the small country.
Somewhere in the film early on, you'd have to show the myriad Orthodox churches and monasteries in the disputed territory, and the simple beauty of the religion they represented, and you'd have to show the animalistic nature of the people which the great power was using as faux victims in the propaganda war it was using to justify the operation..
You'd have to show the damage caused by the operation...
Such a film would have to devote at least two or three minutes to the case of Milica Rakic:
At three years of age when she was killed by a NATO/KKKlintonista bomb hundreds of kilometers from anything remotely resembling a legal military target, Milica likely has the dubious distinction of being SlicKKK KKKlinton's youngest female victim. The other image you see of Milica:
indicates that she has since become a martyr of the Orthodox church. The film should say something about that putting both KKKlintons and the entire group of people responsible for the operation into the history books on the same page as the people who burned Joan of Arc. The movie should also say something about Sanja Milenkovic.
The movie would also have to show the albanian "kosovars" driving everybody else out of the province and destroying all of the 1400 churches and monasteries, and then turning the place into the crime hub of Southern Europe, drugs, human trafficking, stolen vehicles and what not, and you'd have to show the connection between the KLA and Al Quaeda.
I mean, the American public really needs to see this story and it may actually be that a movie would be the best possible way for that to happen. Russia at least has a film-making industry and you wouldn't have to destroy anything which hadn't already been destroyed in order to make such a film, the war operation scenes could be largely made from archive film like Victory at Sea was.
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Wars, regardless of the reasons for them, are always horrible. Perhaps this producer was trying to convey that message...along with making money.
Then we can learn how the traitor McCain collaborated with al-Qaeda, just like he probably did with the Commies in Vietnam.
What the hell are you smoking? I didn’t like McCain as a candidate either and there is no doubt he is not a principled conservative. That being said, I don’t question his patriotism and it is outright libelous to accuse him of treason with no basis.
That would be General Wesley Clark, I presume?
I would also like to get a list of the 30 or so Generals who refused to participate in this operation and were replaced with some more willing and eager.
There is no reasonable way that a decent person could have ever taken the albanian side in any of the Balkan wars, but that goes quadruple or quintuple for Kosovo. McCain was seriously on the wrong side of it and part of it was money.
That would be a very food idea for a movie. I still wouldn’t see the whole thing though. Too depressing.
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I think you’re dead-on, sad to say.
McCain is a bad man...a very, very bad man.
He coddled al-Qaeda terrorists in Kosovo and Albania.
John McCain armed the KLA, Politika
Group tied to al-Qaida backs McCain for prez
'They will do all they can to turn Kosovo into a jihadist camp in the heart of Europe'
He turned his back on Vietnam POWs and MIAs by joining with John F'in Kerry to shut down investigations into their whereabouts (ask D1 or exit82 more about this).
As for his conduct in Vietnam, I shall refer you to Ted Sampley's work.
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Aside from anything else you could say about the turkey, there’s the question of throwing a presidential election... I mean, I’d heard about prize fights being thrown and people shaving points in basketball games before, but a presidential election?? That’s new. All the guy ever needed to do was mouth four simple words, “I oppose the bailout”, and he’d be president today, simple as that, and he cannot possibly be stupid enough not to know that. He could have changed his mind later had he wanted to.
I have always thought that we owed the Serbs for their help and sacrifice during WWII. Added to that, they are, at least, nominally Christian.
We should made a deal with the Russians and given the Serbs free rein, or even helped them, then called it even.
I still don’t understand why we came down on the side of Muslims, terrorists, and organized crime in eastern Europe.
There was zero humanitarian case to be made for aiding the kosovars. There were a half dozen or so real-politik kinds of reasons and the pentagon determined that together theyy did not add up to a case for doing anything and advised SlicKKK not to do it. The overriding concern was having Juanita Broaddrick and Chinagate on the front pages of newspapers; a week after starting the Kosovo operation, there were newspaper reports of SlicKKK and his cronies doing high fives and talking about hitting a “home run”. A home run that is, which amongst other things, cost the lives of several thousand little Slavic Orthodox children.
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Not that it ever entered their reptilian minds but all the nauseatingly mealy-mouthed obnoxious pronouncements of measured concern that accompany the gifting of even more of the North American Party of Death’s political plunder to help their third world disaster victims will never offset, wipe away, relieve or in anyway remove from the Democrat’s ever expanding warehouse of shame the crime against humanity that clinton’s Yugoslavian bombing campaign was.
And to all the pilots and/or crews who had the misfortune of being assigned a role in that shameful event but who instead jettisoned their bomb loads over water rather than participate in that criminal assault know that you were and are still held in high esteem.
The fact that the entire campaign was conducted from the air and from high altitude is instructive. NATO and American forces knew from day one that this was another episode of dog wagging for which they could not possibly ask anybody to go more than the tiniest bit into harms way.
Also included would be a shot of long lines of ‘fleeing’ muslim Albanians, aka ‘kosovars’, seeking shelter and aid at the front and rear of an aid station before willing and waiting media cameras. Shots of grateful Albanian refugees accepting large food packages stamped (variously) “Gift of the USA” or “UN Relief Package”.
Next, a shot of the same people in each line circling around the station to join the line opposite, making the lines appear horrendously long. Media studiously omits filming these scenes, but careful scrutiny reveals the same faces over and over again in both lines.
Cut to scene of people striping uniforms off dead ‘rebel’ (Albanian) KLA soldiers and redressing them in civilian clothes, as another ‘civilian’ leads media cameras toward the small town to film the ‘atrocities’ committed by the evil Christian Serbs.
Next scene takes place in an open (once military) compound for Serb refugees who have been without food and water for weeks and are approaching starvation levels. The gates to the compound are open, but the compound is surrounded by a protective chain link fence with the tops linked by barbed wire facing outwards to keep trespassers out.
A media crew rushes in to film the horror, but stop short of entering the compound and begin filming through the fence - a curious Serb, ribs showing, clothes in tatters, approaches the film crew. He asks through the fence, if they have any food or water to give them. Film crew ignores the man, keeps filming, then departs the way the came.
Cut to: Talking Head on American News TV: “We are bringing you the raw footage of the atrocities now taking place in Kosovo.”
TV shows shots of dead civilians in the small town we saw earlier, labeled “Site of Serb Massacre”; next a shot of the grateful ‘kosovar’ refugees accepting aid - close up of smiling old lady holding an aide package; next a shot of the man in the compound, labeled “Serb Prison Camp - just liberated by the KLA”.
Only a few remark on the truths and ironies on the then nascent internet: Kosovo was were the Muslim invasion into the underbelly of Europe was halted by the ancestors of the same evil Christians in the 16th century; those same evil Christians fought and slaughtered the Albanian muslim SS in WWII; those same evil Christians rescued downed USAAF pilots returning or going to bomb Ploesti (http://www.redstate.com/skanderbeg/2009/08/01/august-1st-1943-the-ploesti-raid) - including my step father (c.f.”Catch 22”).
Bump for later.
“That being said, I don’t question his patriotism and it is outright libelous to accuse him of treason with no basis.”
There’s basis and not just on this issue.
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