Call me harsh, but it sounds to me like the Serbs were involved in the War on Islamic Terror long before we were.
And they were doing it right.
(I should watch myself - the last time I posted on FR when I was drunk, I got BANNED for excessive brutality! LOL)
It's a shame. Really.
Call me harsh, but it sounds to me like the Serbs were involved in the War on Islamic Terror long before we were.
And they were also involved with the little War on Slovenian Catholic Terror plus the big War on Croatian Catholic Terror. Lots of fighting going on in the Balkans during the 1990s and Serbia was in the middle of most of it--whether it be with other Christians or with Muslims. Trying to transform the fighting accompanying the break-up of the former Yugoslavia into a Serbian "War on Islamic Terror" is a favored tactic of Serb apologists, but it does not square with the facts.
The Serbs fought other Christians (Croats & Slovenes). The threatening Serb posture toward Macedonia (primarily Christian) in 1993 caused the very first U.S. troop deployment into the Balkans--an American battalion positioned on Macedonia's northern border with Serbia to serve as a "trip-wire" or deterrent to Milosevic. In the Serbian province of Vojodina, ethnic attacks"aginst Christian minorities are escalating.
Then, even when the Serb opponents are Mulsim (Bosniacs) or majority Muslim (Albanians), the nature of those conflicts was primarily nationalistic, not religious. The Kosovo conflict included sizable numbers of Christian Albanians, to include leaders, and reflects a long-running Kosovar Albanian drive for independence from first the Muslim Ottoman Turks and later the Orthodox Serbs.
And of course, describing the murders of thousands of non-combatants as part of the "War on Islamic Terror" is gross distortion of the term--murder is a crime, not a war.