Posted on 12/16/2010 6:49:39 PM PST by Ravnagora
It was never easy to understand why the Clinton administration intervened in Kosovo. The U.S. had not made a habit of deciding which European state was obligated to grant independence to which disaffected minority. For instance, Spain told Basques to stuff it without much comment from Washington. And the U.S. never worried about its allies using brutality against guerrillas--the Turkish campaign against the Kurds destroyed thousands of villages and killed tens of thousands of people, while the U.S. provided Ankara with arms.
However, the prospect of getting involved in a conflict with no conceivable relationship to U.S. interests drew the Clinton administration into the Balkans. So Washington joined with a majority of European states in a policy that could be defined as "the Serbs always lose": Everyone got to secede from Yugoslavia/Serbia, but Serbs could never secede from anyone else, whether Bosnia, Croatia, or Kosovo, irrespective of the principle of ethnic self-determination and threat of human rights violations.
Thus, the U.S. joined with a majority of European states to bomb Serbia for 78 days to force it to relinquish its control over Kosovo. Then the allies presided over mass ethnic-cleansing by the ethnic Albanian majority. Finally, the U.S. and European Union promoted faux negotiations with the understanding that the outcome was already set: independence for Kosovo. And the northern majority Serb areas of Kosovo were supposed to supinely accept their status rather than seek to remain with Serbia. When Belgrade refused to go along, the allies backed Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence. But Russia has blocked Kosovo's entry into the UN and the majority of states do not recognize the new nation.
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It was never easy to understand why the Clinton administration intervened in Kosovo...
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It was the NPR approved war at the time. The PR from the left on humanitarian grounds was relentless.
It’s a terrible thing to say, and forgive me, but every time now I hear “humanitarian”, I’m instantly suspicious. That “reason” and justification for “intervention” is now a permanent red flag when it comes to politics and foreign policy.
And that’s a crime. The Liberal Left has bastardized helping the helpless.
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Bubba couldn’t even pronounce Kosovo.
“Kuh sa vuh”
To give the Muslims victory!!!!
Hillary hates Christians and loves Muslims!
No, no, I thought it was for reasons of wagging the dog. Remember that? Or was it the missle strikes on the milk factory? Have I forgotten? One or the other was to gag the interest in Monica/Bill, in favor of a macho war. Also, at the time, it was Hillary who was said to want to bomb around in Bosnia, eager to engage a war experience.
“gag the interest” - nice one!
Had to wag the dog somewhere ...
The bombing of Bosnia was directed against the Serbs!
That's all anyone ever heard.
What no one ever heard was Ethnic Albanian Muslims and Serbian Christians.
And the mass graves were lies - until the Clinton-back Ethnic Albanian Muslims finished slaughtering the Serbian Christians.
THEN there were mass graves.
More like SA approved it. Abscam had come and gone and the Arabs weren’t going to get suckered a second time.
Today, when they buy a politician they stay bought. Clinton also had an Indonesian connection pushing an Islamic solution in Bosnia. So between the House of Saud and Clintons Far East money men he was literally between a dollar and a greenback.
And the Clinton’s were the original ‘show me the money’ political couple.
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