We had to guard a small village of serbs and stand outside their church during services to protect them from the ethnic Albanian.
I had and have nothing but sympathy for the Serbs, it was they who were being ethnically cleansed
Ammanpour did her propaganda standing on that border with Albania and she never once told the facts of how the Serbs went in because it was to protect the Serbs.
Amanpour made her entire career on whipping up hatred toward the Serbs. That witch has more blood on her hands than al qaeda does. No one seemed to notice that she was born in Iran and was married to Clinton press secretary Jamie Rubin, making her the perfect propagandist. To this day, I can't stand looking at her.
Thank you for your service, and for telling us about what you did. Because for years, I used to see articles about our guys going over there to serve and cringe, thinking what kind of horrible system are we expecting our soldiers to support.
A few years ago, Julia Gorin talked about an officer returning from Kosovo who refused to wear his bars denoting his service in Kosovo for exactly the reasons you are talking about. It broke his heart, because he was long serving military.
I knew for sure that something was really, really wrong in Kosovo in 2000. We were in Greece and met a New Zealander on leave from the UN Judicial Mission in Kosovo -- he was a sweet man who burst into tears when he talked about Kosovo, pleading, "I didn't know. I didn't sign up for this. I really didn't know!" We hadn't argued or given him the least bit of a hard time about it; we had only mentioned the fact that Greeks gave us an extra discount on things when they saw our Montenegrin Serb last name. And from that point on this poor man started begging for our forgiveness for what he was doing. I knew that it was rough, this was less than a year after the NATO Bombing, but I had no idea how bad it was for Kosovo Serbs at that point. In fact, hundreds of thousands of them had fled or been driven out, and a substantial number had been murdered with impunity, but there was virtually nothing about it in the news back then.
Haven’t seen you around on many of the Balkan threads, welcome to the meat grinder. You’ll notice there are plenty of so called “conservatives “ here on FR who will quickly turn up the apologetics for muslim filth when discussing Balkan topics. Quite sad really.
Look forward to your contribution.