Posted on 09/20/2009 3:42:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Edited on 09/20/2009 7:20:58 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
For 11 days in late August and early September in 1995, U.S. and NATO air power defended Bosnian Muslims, who were being attacked by Bosnian Serbs, who were supported by Serbian Serbs. This was merely the overture to something much more ambitious -- a grand concert of nation-building that began when the Dayton agreement reached in December of that year calmed the Balkan furies of revanchism and revenge, for a while.
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The Bosnian case shows that it is a bad idea not to crush the enemy before negotiating peace.
The US should have let the Croatian and Bosnian armies conquer Banja Luka in September 1995 and —yes— provoke a massive exodus of the Serbs from the whole region.
And certainly not give the Serb aggressors and mass murderers half of the country with unenforceable mechanisms for the return of their victims.
What an abserbdity!
That was indeed absurd, and what thanks did we get?
A pissed off Russia, and we are still not trustworthy, in their eye's. And it is easy to see why. They were on the side of the Christians in Serbia, and we (make that Bill Clinton) chose Ben Laden and the Kosovo Liberation Army.
The Cole, the twins, the embassy bombings, and probably a few airliners, along with passengers and crew up in smoke. Enough to take a hardline stance, against further attacks on our country by certain groups of sub...
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You are right on
And certainly not give the Serb Muslim aggressors and mass murderers half of the country with unenforceable mechanisms for the return of their victims.
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