Anti-Serb Propaganda Misled Americans in '90s

I contend that the Serbians were the "right side" in the Serbian/Bosnian conflict.

I supported them then - their excesses notwithstanding.

The Serbian/Bosnian conflict represented the "Clash of Civilizations" which professor Samuel Huntington wrote about so eloquently. Christianity vs. Islam, no-holds-barred.

The Serbians knew what was as stake.
They knew that they could not live peacefully with a mixed/Muslim population.
They knew what had to be done.
And they had the nerve to go out and _do_ it.

Thus, "ethnic cleansing".

I contend that the Serbian/Bosnian conflict represents a harbinger of where The West is headed in general - a view of what's to come.

Here on Free Republic, we talk about "Eurabia" - the fall of Europe to Islam.
We say that Islam is incompatible with all the values of a Western culture.
We talk about kicking Islamics out, sending them back to Muslim states.
Lots of "big talk". But - when the chips are down (as they someday WILL be), I wonder how many of the big talkers will turn into fast walkers (especially when something called a "draft" is mentioned!)....

The Serbians walked the walk - and we bombed them for doing so.

The clash of civilizations cannot be won on our terms of engagement. It will only be won on _their_ terms.

The Serbians understood the meaning of "their terms".

If we are not willing to engage in ethnic - and cultural - cleansing, the OTHER SIDE will eventually engage it - against US. They have no qualms - NONE - about establishing a worldwide Islamic state. They believe their way is superior, the destined will of allah (I refuse to capitalize that false deity), and they will do what is necessary to establish that will worldwide. For them the end is justified by the means, and they will use ANY means necessary to achieve it.

I believe OUR culture is superior (yes, SUPERIOR). And faced with such an enemy, there can be no reasonable or rational choice other than to grit our teeth and realize that we, too, must use what means necessary to achieve our goal. We do this not because we want to, but because we must.

That "goal" is the preservation of Western civilzation and the overthrow of Islam, the enemy of freedom.

- John

NATO wanted to go in. It's not like they were reluctant or whatever... Those within NATO (and outside it) who were itching for a war, faced with the threat of increasing obsolescence and growing irrelevance, had torpedoed every attempt at peace in the Balkans.

They were looking for a purpose, and the only purpose, their sole reason d'etre, as far as military alliances go, is waging war.

The Lisbon Agreement was the most overt example of interference ("If you don't like it, don't sign it," Warren Zimmerman to the Bos. Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic), but not the only time the U.S. made any kind of peace impossible.

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