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"Austria had to respond to the assassination of the Archduke, just like we had to respond to 9/11. In retrospect, it would have been better if Austria attacked Serbia singlehandedly after Serbia (egged on by the Russians) rejected the ultimatum."

Serbia agreed to all points of Austria's ultimatum. Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph invaded anyway.

233 posted on 04/20/2005 10:23:15 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)

So there's this little country, and it sponsors terrorists. But because it has big tough friends, it figures that it can get away with this.

Seems I've heard this story somewhere before . . .

How does Serbia's support and protection of the Black Hand differ qualitatively from Afganistan's support for al Qaeda?

Didn't a recent American president launch missiles against a sovereign state (without a declaration of war) because of its ALLEGED involvement in a plot to assassinate one of our ex-presidents.

How about that whole U.S.S. Maine deal?

And why is Pershing's incursion into (or invasion of) Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa justified?

Or is it that one set of laws applies to the U.S. and another set to Austria-Hungary?