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Posted on 10/24/2006 3:48:18 PM PDT by Celebratelife008
Arrogantly strutting around the opulent OSCE restaurant, on an upper floor of its Pristina headquarters, Richard Holbrooke cut an imposing figure. The “Balkan peace negotiator” whose bloody legacy stretched from Vietnam and Indonesia to Belgrade minced no words about US policy for the region. In front of the five heads of UNMIK he bellowed: “Forget multi-ethnic Kosovo. Forget Resolution 1244. We only signed that to get rid of the Serbs.”
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And the Muslims gave the US a personalized "Thank you" on September 11, 2001.
Serbs = Christians
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Richard Holbrooke cut an imposing figure: "Forget multi-ethnic Kosovo. Forget Resolution 1244. We only signed that to get rid of the Serbs." he bellowed.
One thing that is not talked about enough (I think) is that aside from the
1. The right and wrong of the situation.
2. The fact that we helped our enemies (muslims/terrorists).
It seems to be that our (clinton's) policies in Yugoslavia poisoned the well of US/Russian relations.
I suppose things could have turned out just as bad as they did without all that went on (especially the Pristina airport incident) and we'll never really know, but it's a safe bet that it didn't help any.
Another clinton legacy - we backed the wrong side, we helped the muslim terrorists (drug dealers) and we screwed the pooch as far as relations with Russia.
Nice going.
This was all very confusing at the time. The MSM painted horrible pictures in black and white night after night. Serbs were evil, genocidal thugs and the Kosovo Muslims were all innocent victims. I don't remember hearing anything else. What was clear was that the media was on a mission to get the Clinton administration to go to war on the side of the Muslims. They were relentless.
["I don't remember hearing anything else. "]
I can try refresh your memory back as far as the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s. Here goes...
Milosevic's "original sin" was that he was a socialist who resisted the West's push (led mainly by Germany and the US) for the breakup of Yugoslavia as far back as 1989. He didn't want to subject Yugoslavia to the painful economic reforms of privatization, strict IMF rules, etc. that were afflicting so many of the other former Eastern-Bloc countries under communist rule.
Because of his resistance to the West, the western media painted the conflicts in the Balkans as a war of good (The Muslims) against evil (The Serbs). As such, and with strong media support, it was easy for the Clinton administration to stigmatize Serbia as a rogue nation. Unfortunately, we're still paying the price for this negative stigmatization.
Germany, Austria and Rome were the driving forces to split Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia from Yugoslavia.
Milosevic was made the whipping boy because he was the Serbian President. Had anyone else been the President, that person would have been painted as evil!
The immediate results of Clintoon's helping Islamofascists are even worse:
1. India and Pakistan tested balistic missiles during bombing and mauling of Serbia. Only fools did not see the connection.
on 11 April 1999 India conducted a successful 14 minute test flight of the 2,500 kilometer Agni-II missile. "The entire process of achieving a minimum deterrent has been completed," Vajpayee announced following the test. "We are satisfied that we are now fully capable of defending our borders," he added. Pakistan responded with an eight-minute test flight of the Ghauri II three days later.
2. Stealth technology became obsolete overnight. Two-bit Serbian Air defence shot down F-117a. Subsequent bombing of Chicom embassy did not change anything- it was shutting the barn's door after the horse was gone.
3. Drunken sailor Yeltsin was replaced by the sly Putin, who rode on the wave of displeasure how U.S. was mauling Serbia.
4. The crack in NATO. Nato became offensive alliance, a mirror image of Warszaw Pact. Some Europeans got really upset because of it. Unsupport for Iraq has it's roots there.
5. U.S. de facto sided with OBL and created islamic cancer on the southern NATO flank. The idea that it will be resolved by exterminating Serbs is naive - the fact is, U.S. can not wage three wars simultaneously.
Clinton's legacy is like herpes - the gift that keeps on giving.
All good points - I would only add that your point #3 is a reflection of the point I was making - we pissed the Russians off, and Putin is one of the results.
Your point #4 is doubly ironic because at the time one of the justifications for intervening was "to save NATO" - Blair made this argument as did many others. I never understood it then and I don't understand it now.
["Had anyone else been the President, that person would have been painted as evil!"]
The people that worry me the most are those that don't know...and they don't know that they don't know.
I hope this is clear.
Your assertions are right on target, but the point is...it was and is planned that way...that is the problem. We are deep into the planning and orchestrating this entire ruse since Bosnia.
Think of it in the light of Sun Tzu's The Art of war. . More important than how it is done is that this is proven doable.
Ever thought why there is a flood of dirt cheap valve audio equipment coming from China? I bet this is a spin-off of Chicom military production. I can also bet that Chicoms are busy making copies of Czech Tamara radar in Wall Mart-sized quantities.
Are you saying Milosevic should have encouraged the breakup of yugoslavia? Or, at least, not opposed it?
He should've taken Serbia out of Yugoslavia in 1987 and applied for NATO and EU memberships. If not in 1987, then in 1990 at the latest. It is beyond me how he could not have foreseen the way things were going to go in Yugoslavia.
Wouldn't Croatia (Krajina/Slavonia) and BiH still exploded?
Also, would this have prevented Kosovo from exploding?
Highly unlikely, due to the fact that NATO/EU would've considered it their core interest to prevent any and all violence (after all, one of their own would've been involved). They would've been involved from Day 1, and no shenanigans from anyone in the rest of Yugoslavia would've been tolerated given that the Cold War still was security concern #1.
Also, would this have prevented Kosovo from exploding?
It is almost certain that the separatists would've been dealt with promptly and that Serbia would've been given pretty much a free hand. Plus, any action would've been in co-ordination with NATO. They would've had absolutely no allies in Europe/Washington, and no amount of lobbying could've changed that.
However, it's a big "?" whether NATO would've agreed to take Serbia in in the first place (the USSR would've gone apesh_t, most likely).
Peter Brock; "Media Cleansing:Dirty Reporting", very informative.
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