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
*****
True. It also ruined any moral credibility to talk about the sovereignty of national borders, something that has not been forgotten elsewhere, even if it has here.
And shortly after, Clark got fired as SACEUR.
I would hope so
He was suddenly recalled back to Washington if memory serves.
Had a chewout session with Bubba.
Then he got quiet for awhile until he showed up in his abortive presidential campaign.
It's really no worse than all the hyperbole that we heard from supporters of the Kosovo Liberation Army (Clintonite liberals and neoconservatives) back in 1999, i.e. claiming that what Milosevic did in Kosovo was "the greatest genocide since Hitler."
Last time I checked, Hitler was responsible for about 10-12 million murdered civilians (half Jews, the rest other undesirables). The total number of Albanians murdered by the Serbs in Kosovo was (according to UN commission) was in the low thousands - roughly comparable to the number of Serb civilians murdered by your darlings in the Kosovo Liberation Army. Some "Hitler."
To be fair, Serbs did commit atrocities against unarmed civilians, as did the Kosovar Albanians (who continue to do so today). What disgusted me about US media coverage and the rest of what we heard from Clinton's mouthpieces, however, was how single-sided it was. Once the CLinton administration committed to backing the Muslims, we never again heard a single word about acts of terrorism and murder committed by the Kosovars. They were painted as completely innocent victims, as though we were dealing with armed Nazis shipping unarmed Jews and other "undesirables" off to death camps, as opposed to an ugly civil war with plenty of blame and blood on the hands of both sides.
A big time Clintonista, probably with his very own set of knee pads.
He was, and then some.
It's no coincidence that so many of the @ssholes who signed that letter ended up being the loudest cheerleaders for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
These people are nothing more than big-government globalists who put this country's foreign policy up for sale to the highest foreign bidders.
Mr. President, Milosevic is the Problem
One of the signatories of this letter was John Bolton, a guy who (astonishingly) many Freepers actually consider strong presidential material. LMAO.
The neoconservative wing of the GOP was solidly behind the Clinton administration’s Balkans policy, but by and large House and Senate Republicans opposed the intervention, partly on account of principle (i.e. realist and libertarian-leaning Republicans not wanting to get involved in a Balkans civil war), partly out of just wanting to oppose a Clinton initiative. I remember Bill Kristol throwing a temper tantrum and threatening to leave the GOP (if only he had, and had taken his allies with him) when Congressional Republicans weren’t playing ball on Kosovo.
Don’t worry Aleksandra.
Many American Christians remember that atrocity as well.
And we are still fighting what caused it here at home.
What caused it was a phone call to Hillary Clinton in Morocco while she was doing her Africa ‘listening tour’. The phone call said that Milosevich was not listening and not ‘complying’. The phone call came from feminist Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, one of the stooges that Hillary placed in the Administration by her self-appointed authority as Co-President.
When Albright told Hillary that this man Milosevich would not do what he was told by her to do, Hillary responded:
“BOMB THEM!”
And the homosexual General Wesley Clark was immediately put in charge of the carpet bombing of Kosovo and Serbia.
So Aleksandra, tell your friends to not hate America for America is born of God. Instead tell them to help us fight the cretins who have lied and coerced their way to power in America. Tell them to stand with us in 2016 to elect Ted Cruz as President.
This dark period of history for America, this too will pass.
I think you may be right, but I always would read from the “experts” who would state that both sides were guilty/bad (kind of like the Crusades). Of course fence sitters are good at that.
I bet if you were a Serb there you might feel differently.
“To be fair, Serbs did commit atrocities against unarmed civilians:
and that’s what happens when people keep getting pushed, and I use the word pushed mildly.
No matter where you live, the US bombing of Serbia, while unjust, unprovoked and just plain stupid, was NOT ...one of the most unjust acts of aggression in the history of the world.
Agree with every word there, great post.
This stupidity has been outdone by Libya 100x over.
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