[Paleo Conservative]

Milosevic was right: JIHADIST HOTBED IN THE BALKANS: THE TRUTH IS OUT

As if Milosevic had nothing to do with reigniting Islamic jihadism in the Balkans. Milosevic is just a Communist totalitarian who changed clothes at the end of the Cold War to become a Serbian Nationalist totalitarian. He restarted the ethnic infighting in Yugoslavia as a way of maintaining personal power. Should anyone be surprised that when Serbian nationalists started a war of extermination against Bosnian Muslims that the world's most extreme Muslim jihadis would be drawn to the region?

Milosevic should have been tried by a Tribunal made up of judges from the various parts of Yugoslavia not a UN tribunal. The UN through its incompetent prosecution has actually improved Milosevic's standing in popular opinion in Serbia. We're fortunate that President Bush is not going to hand Saddam Hussein over to an ICC tribunal.

[rmlew]

No disagreement. Milosevic opened up the can of works. He used the Kosovo issue to become head of the Serbian communist party and then of Yugoslavia. Once the Serbs started to reassert their ETHNIC power, the minorities chose to leave. (Slovenia may have left on its own, but Croatia's Tudjman came to power based on opposing Milosevic.)

[FormerLib]

Should anyone be surprised that when Serbian nationalists started a war of extermination against Bosnian Muslims that the world's most extreme Muslim jihadis would be drawn to the region?

I see you've still got the cart firmly placed before the horse. As the article noted:

The Bosnian crisis started when Alija Izetbegovic, the Muslim leader, reneged on an agreement brokered by the European Union that provided for continued power-sharing in Sarajevo.

For the record, Serbs react very badly when double-crossed.

[D Rider]

Truth is, you know nothing about either the history or the reality of the Balkans. Back when we were bombing Serbia I wrote about it in this forum. If my old posts are still online, you'll find that I was correct all along. Let me just add this, Wus Clark is the one that should be tried for criminal behavior for his actions in the Balkans. We bombed the wrong people, we should have bombed Albania. Instead we just finished what the Nazi's were unable to finish. Why? For our Franco/German allies. The whole thing makes me sick.

If you don't understand. For starters, you can ask yourself why Israel was the only country defending the Serbs.