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To: RightInEastLansing
Ask Bill Kristol how he can keep a straight face when he supports the "war on terror" in Iraq while at the same time he supported the Clinton administration's disgraceful decision to lay waste to Serbia on behalf of a radical Islamic faction in Kosovo.

While you're at it, you can also ask him why he and a whole bunch of his fellow "neo-cons" are members of a group called the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, which has consistently criticized the Putin government for pursuing its own "war on terror" against radical Muslims in Chechnya.

9 posted on 02/03/2005 4:56:25 PM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert.)
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To: Alberta's Child; Destro; GeraldP; Red Sea Swimmer; Honorary Serb; risk; Atlantic Friend
I think that Christopher Caldwell laid out the most coherent, cogent argument against NATO's decision to initiate hostilities against Yugoslavia in 1999.

There was one very beneficial but unintended aspect of the resultant conflict, i.e. the victory of the peaceful, democratic opposition-led by activist student groups like OTPOR, Western technocrats like Zoran Djindjic, and democratic Serbian nationalists like Vojislav Kostunica-over the autocratic heirs of Josip Broz (Tito).

The specified goal of the bombing campaign, i.e. stopping the slaughter of innocent Kosovars, was another noteworthy accomplishment, which has to be weighed against the negative consequences generated by that conflict-a military escalation that contravened the most basic principles undergirding this transatlantic defense pact.

To continue as a U.N. protectorate, a veritable political and economic basket case, open to infiltration by officially-sponsored Wahabbi clerics from the Gulf, and surreptitious invasion by Islamic terrorist organizations, is a situation that is simply untenable in the long run.

Instead of debating the relative merits of Clinton's decision to attack the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, I think that we need to focus on how best to solidify America's diplomatic/military relationship with a potentially invaluable ally in the WOT.

It is infinitely more desirable to have Kosovo follow the path trod by Albania, rather than becoming a charnel house of human misery, which is the current state of affairs in Chechnya.

11 posted on 02/03/2005 8:20:25 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Black box bullet-heads.)
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