Posted on 01/07/2009 7:05:15 PM PST by Bokababe
Rome – Mauro Del Vecchio, former General of Italian Army who led the unit of 7,000 soldiers that entered Kosovo in June of 1999 after end of NATO air strikes on Serbia told Italian ‘Panorama’ weekly that during the first three weeks of the mandate ‘reports on the found bodies of killed Serbs and Romas arrived on his table each morning’, but that was a taboo topic they were not allowed to speak about with journalists.
‘The killing continued later but not so frequently. Those that have not fled Kosovo were under permanent risk to be killed or raped. Deserted Serbian houses were leveled to the ground or set on fire. Albanians were attacking the churches and monasteries, too. Their goal was to erase every trace of the Serbian presence in Kosovo’, Del Vecchio said......
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The rise of the KLA and the trashing of a country that was our friend will be a historical disgrace we deserve.
Putin gave the Serbs (the ones here on FR that weren't banned) a royal opportunity to make a stand for what is right. If they had, it would have enabled them to take a moral stand on what happened years ago.
They blew it.
My screw up -- should have read "The TRUTH shouldN'T require a million dollar PR firm to get heard.
And you are absolutely right about the Twain quote.
Maybe you want to take people's mind off the fact that a NATO General just confessed that they were finding bodies of Serb civilians daily after Clinton's war, killed at the hands of the same Albanian Muslims who tried to pull off something similar against us at Ft Dix last year.
But what the hell, it's all about you, now isn't it?
But that's ok, you continue on with your stupidity and we will continue to laugh at you. Hope you didn't push that button for Obama too hard, wouldn't want you to damage your manicure you sissy.
LOL...well, I read it the way you meant it, not the way you wrote it. It’s all good, sweetie.
I'll let you know if I ever need some advice on how to slaughter women and children, ya' big hero.
And for the third time, the Serbs were dealt a bad set of cards and instead of folding they tried to bluff the pot. And lost.
Now they expect to generate sympathy for themselves by lamenting their civilian casualties? Well, how about the ones they are responsible for themselves?
Ah, the power of intention! Or is it "great minds think alike"? ;) LOL!
"I'll let you know if I ever need some advice on how to slaughter women and children, ya' big hero."
Look no further than our own State Department, they helped enable terrorists, you simply reek of the afterbirth.
And for the last time, quit marveling at the political magic trick that has been pulled off on the Serbs, and look where we are pointing.
Pretend that you don't give a damn about Serbs or Serbia -- which shouldn't be tough.
The Balkans are and always have been the chessboard on which the Great Powers play their games -- although the peoples there (Serbs, Croats, Albanians) play their parts, they aren't often the source of those moves and they never have been.
$Billions were spent to break up Yugoslavia into bite-sized pieces. Why? To remove a tinpot dictator like Milosevic? Why? What threat was he to the rest of Europe or to us? There was nothing about Milosevic that a walk out to the woods and bullet and an unmarked grave couldn't have solved -- and with 100,000 Serbs marching in Belgrade against him in 1996, there were more than enough takers for the job (the same people we later bombed for 78 days).
Instead, a whole new "international order" was built around "handling Milosevic & the Serbs" -- an international Court, hundreds of NGO's, a rejuvenation of NATO even breaking NATO's own charter to bomb Yugoslavia in 1999, and funds from the Albanian Mafia pouring into the campaign coffers of American elected officials.
If GWB had done a U-turn of Clinton's Balkan politics and Balkan actions when he took office, and revealed how badly the Balkans had been handled by the Clinton Administration, no Democrat would have ever gotten near the Oval office for the next 20 years! Why didn't he? Why did he stay the same course, even breaking international law to recognize "an independent Kosovo"? Why are the same people who screwed this whole thing up 20 years ago, now running the State Department again?
And where in the hell has the media been on all of this? Usually the one who can't wait to tell the truth about the underdog, they just keep re-running the same pathetic monologue that they did 20 years ago, even though it contradicts the facts that we now know.
This whole thing is bigger than the confines of the old Yugoslavia. The "players" and "payers", are the same people who now threaten our own freedom here in the US.
Quit being such a dolt and falling into the hands of the same people who would kill you as soon as look at you, the same way that they did to the Serbs back then.
Faten Shnewer, the mother of defendant Mohamad Shnewer, on of the Ft. Dix plotters.
But they supported it instead. They didn't need a multi-million dollar PR firm to point it out to them (although it would've been nice). They simply needed a leader.
So they cheered a foreign power making mincemeat of a small state's sovereignty, and they opposed a small state trying to get the upper hand on a violent ethnic group in its midst. Who are the idiots, now?
“”We were finding bodies of killed Serbs every morning””
Truth be told, all this did start with Clinton and his adventures in the Balkans, but Bush raised the destruction of Eastern Christian communities to the joy and advantage of rampant Mohammedanism to the level of American foreign policy.
“We were finding bodies of killed Serbs every morning”...from the Adriatic to the Iran/Iraq border, the legacy of George W. Bush.
True and it stretches credulity too far to believe that it was due to stupidity or naivety.
“True and it stretches credulity too far to believe that it was due to stupidity or naivety.”
True; the policy was neither stupid nor naive. It was and is completely cynical and so easily disposed of Eastern Christians because the practioners of the policy don’t view them as real Christians.
BTW, it has always fascinated me that there are so many similarities, if not a shared total identity of thought, between the “...far brighter reality: the true and joyous liberation that inevitably involves letting go of the self” taught by Vajrayana and Theravada Buddhism and the “dying to the self” process of theosis in Orthodox Christianity.
Your thoughts on Buddhism are interesting. My teacher thinks much the same thing. He has told me several times that if he could embrace Christianity again it would be the Eastern Orthodox church. He sees great similarities in view. FWIW he is an American not a Tibetan and went to a Jesuit high school so he is very familiar with western culture and Christian teachings.
"the Serbs had an excellent opportunity to claim the high ground by opposing Russia's intervention in Georgia."
which Serbs are you referring to? I made it abundantly clear what my position was, you failed the reading and comprehension test and continue whine.
"But they supported it instead. They didn't need a multi-million dollar PR firm to point it out to them (although it would've been nice). They simply needed a leader."
Who are you referring to here and what are you smoking? Russia was in fact a little bit peeved that Serbia sold weapons to Georgia? You really need to scrape the bong resin off your brain.
"So they cheered a foreign power making mincemeat of a small state's sovereignty, and they opposed a small state trying to get the upper hand on a violent ethnic group in its midst. Who are the idiots, now?"
Thanks for being stupid, the entertainment value is priceless, bottom line is that Putin threw egg in the face of the West exposing NATO for the paper tiger that it is while the rest of the world watched. Bush Jr. sat there with his thumb up his ass rubbing elbows with Putipoot at the Olympics and now our polity has elected a socialist President, yes, idiots indeed.
Go whine over at the DU where you can go take your favorite pink "blanky" and go group hug with the rest of the other fruticakes.
That's the thing: I won't judge you because Putin poked a stick in Bush's eye and gave you a woody. You simply have a thing for Russian guys. Although it's rather interesting to hear "oh, no I don't find them attractive at all" and then watching you sleep with one the first chance you get.
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