I'm not sure the US was right to intervene in Kosovo in the 1990s, but what happens in the Balkans is absolutely important to the US. A little over a 100 years ago we lost 320,000 casualties to a local Balkan squabble that escalated out control and repeating that would be bad.
“what happens in the Balkans is absolutely important to the US.”
How so?
You are, to an extent, correct. Local problems can spin out of control and engulf the whole world. It happened in 1914, as you noted.
But it does not follow that we must intervene everywhere, all the time. That kind of thinking helped bankrupt the Roman Empire. And it helped bankrupt the British Empire.
I suppose we are next.
Anyway, thank you for your polite response. We are obviously far apart on this issue. Yet you responded in a civil manner. That is, unfortunately, not always the case here on Free Republic.
Regards,
LR
“I’m not sure the US was right to intervene in Kosovo in the 1990s...”
I was opposed to that intervention.
“...but what happens in the Balkans is absolutely important to the US.”
I agree.