The eastern Europeans fought off the Turks and Islam many centuries ago and the West forgets that and looks only at the Serbs as the bad guys. Thus is their role in Europe and America. I think that's a total mistake!
Germany was the repository of the Holy Roman Empire from 806-1806, when Napoleon's 1806 invasion of German states abolished the Holy Roman Empire.
Europe and America will forget that completely and remember all Germans for ONLY the 13-year span of 1932-45, while forgiving and forgetting JAPAN'S very same 13-year span where they invaded China and killed 34 million Chinese.
The West also forgives and forgets Italy's and the USSR's part in WWII -- where Japan, Italy and the USSR marched lockstep with Hitler and his 3rd Reich.
The Germans are America's bad guys forever. Sleazywood will NEVER stop making WWII movies because of their continuing hatred of everything German. Hogan's Heroes was boobtubeland's version of anti-German. Lol. Imagine the screeching of racism if there had been a "Hirohito's Heroes" where everything Japanese was mocked and ridiculed. No, Sleazywood, the MSM and the West have decided who the bad guys are -- and the Serbs and Germans head their list.
The anti-Serb agenda (forever bad guys) won't go away. They are way too convenient as whipping boys -- like the Germans.
The voices against Turkish re-invasion of Europe, via the EU, are few. Pope Benedict is against the Turkish entry into the EU. I'm with him.
Hard to fight terrorism (Muslim) when the black/white hats are mixed up. Hard to fight the enemy when the USA NEEDS the oil that comes from so many who are against us. Ironic, innit?
It was hard to fight the IRA terrorism as well because so MANY of the IRA terrorists were funded from the USA.
Some Americans have some very strange ideas about terrorists. I don't. Terrorists are monsters who kill innocents for their own agenda. They have neither the brains or moral backbone to do it any other way. MORAL RELATIVISM is their faith.
When Muslim terrorists blow up innocent Christians they show what kind of monsters they are. When their government or police DON'T adequately respond and protect Christians, it's difficult for Christians NOT to retaliate in kind. But, when Christian civilians retaliate with the same methods as the Muslim terrorists, they become no better than the terrorists. Those who think so are moral relativists who think the exact same way as terrorists themselves. It's a HARD decision NOT to retaliate and one that requires SOME kind of moral backbone.
I remember (VIVIDLY) the Koreans in L.A. defending and protecting themselves against the black mobs....Rodney King era. They didn't go out and shoot and kill but the young Korean men armed themselves with assault weapons, got on the rooftops of their stores and buildings and held off black looters and gangs who would attack them for no more reason than racism.
I can recall vividly the young Korean men with their white scarves tied around their foreheads, with assault weapons aimed at the streets below. It was a horrible sight, Americans versus Americans, but one I never forgot.
The Koreans kept their cool, killed no one, but protected themselves and their property. A lesson for anti-terrorism.
We have to keep the black/white hats in their right places. We are, I think, dealing with the terrorists in the correct way, via the military and all the weapons it has at its disposal: Guantanamo, stopping illegals, racial profiling, technology, freezing assets, eavsdropping, troops in Afghanistan, etc.
My two cents.
Anyway, I think we should stop isolating the Serbs. Enough already. The Bosnian Muslims are not innocent either. Black/white hat mixup yet again.
Sorry to make this too long.
I thought that was suppose to be your job Hoppy? The rent-a-cop business go sour for you old man?
BUMP!
Gee, and I always thought Germany declared war on Russia and France in WWI. Silly me!