Posted on 03/24/2015 10:44:37 AM PDT by Ravnagora
WHAT IS OWED TO THE SERBS.
One of those moments you never forget: Before the dawn on March 25, 1999, I stepped outside the door to find The New York Times there on the ground with the headline announcing that NATO had begun its bombing campaign against the Serbs in the former Yugoslavia on March 24, 1999. I remember looking at that front page of the paper before picking it up and thinking - "They are really doing it. It's no longer a threat. It's real. It's real. What a mistake. What a mistake." Then I picked up the paper and went back inside. So began a 78 bombing campaign which included the time span over the Easter holiday and my family's Christian Patron Saint's Day - our Krsna Slava, St. Lazarus Saturday - which falls a week before Serbian Orthodox Easter.
I love America. Always have. Always will. But that bombing campaign in 1999, yet another horrific mistep in American foreign policy against the Christian Serbs that had spanned throughout the decade of the 1990s, beginning with the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, was a mistake of GIANT proportions. The Serbians had always been one of America's most steadfast and loyal Allies and certainly her best friend in the Balkans for sure. What hurts the most is that now so many Serbians no longer consider America a friend or an ally and have no wish to be either of those to America. That is the real tragedy. The WRONG people were targeted. The WRONG people were punished. The WRONG people in the Balkans were alienated.
The NATO bombing campaign of 1999 against the Serbs stands as one of the most unjust acts of aggression in the history of the world. I can only hope and pray that, at the very least, some day there will be a public act of contrition in the form of a public apology from America, regardless of whether there is one from her NATO allies or not, and that this apology will resound for all the world to hear.
AMERICA OWES SERBIA THAT ACT OF REPENTANCE, AND MUCH MORE.
Sincerely,
Aleksandra Rebic
March 24, 2015
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Ping.
HAHAHAHAHAH!
Listen to yourselves.
Bill Clinton should have been prosecuted and imprisoned for aiding and arming the Albanian Muslims and then had NATO turn their weapons on the Serbian people, one of Americas staunches supporters. This was the making of globalism at its worst. General Wesley Clark should been hung for mass murder. The World Court should have done their job.
Agree.
Clinton wanted to take attention away form his dealings here and then look to be helping muslims.
He started a war based on Christianne Ammanpour being on the border showing the plight of these muslims going back to Albania and yet never showed how these Albanians were taking over Serb villages and the entire area in the first place which led to the Serbs saying enough is enough.
It is truly shocking that people follow the media and that includes some on our side who still don’t get the whole picture.
Now THAT'S good hyperbole.
Thought something similar but my thought was more naive - thought oh the news must have this story wrong. I still think the same things but now assume they have it wrong on purpose.
Not sure about the most unjust but it was sickening to see us bomb a country which had been under threat for decades and who had saw their own part of the country being taken over by these Albanian muslims.
Remember the Serbs were reacting to Serbs being displaced and ethnic cleansed by these Albanian muslims.
I don't speak for all of America, but I AM sorry that Bill Clinton was ever elected president of the United States.
Does that help?
Who could forget General Wesley Clark trying to start WWIII by ordering people to fire on the Russians.
It forever ruined any chances of Russia joining the West. The hardliners had their proof that the West was not to be trusted, and it ultimately led to the rise of Putin.
Listen to yourself!
Or the Russians trying to start WW3 by sending troops to an active warzone? Hmmmmmmmmmm...?
I wonder if that 1999 bombing campaign would have ever been initiated if Putin had been in power in Russia at that time and not Yeltsin.
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Yup.
The thing that stopped that from degenerating further: British officer Sir Mike Jackson told then SACEUR Clark to basically pound sand.
The same Weasely Wesley who helped plan the assault on the Branch Davidians, using tanks from Ft. Hood.
The very same.
And the world was glad he did
That’s THE PERFUMED PRINCE everybody talked about !!
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