So no, there was no immunity which explains WHY both sides shot AT EVERYONE. Because, at one time or another, that person had OR WILL pick up a weapon and will try to kill you. Better get them now then later. ahem, pre-emptive strike is what it's called now.
So no, there was no immunity which explains WHY both sides shot AT EVERYONE. Because, at one time or another, that person had OR WILL pick up a weapon and will try to kill you. Better get them now then later. ahem, pre-emptive strike is what it's called now.
Out of all the years I've been reading and posting on this forum, I have never seen anybody so precisely and directly address such a very real and neglected aspect of many of the "civilian" casualties that happened in Bosnia so eloquently and with such an economy of words.
Of course Serbian "civilians" were killed for the same issues. The major difference is, the Serbs didn't/couldn't go running crying to Christiane Albright at CNN or whatever the hell her last name is. The Serbs understood the score and fought back.
The only Americans that cry about the "indiscriminate" nature of the Serbs' warfare are either people completely ignorant of the nature of Bosnia's combat theater or people that are receiving some sort of monetary compensation for climbing up on a soap box and thumping their cheasts. Their only goal is to get enough of the indifferent masses to cry them a little bitty river just wide enough keep their BS hidden agenda flowing down stream.
By this point, I'm indifferent to either of them. The Truth simply is not on their side and it's really not my concern anymore.