"I knew we should have backed Miloszevic....."
I hate to say this, but I have to agree.
I don't hate to say we should have backed Milosevic. I've said it from the beginning. He had as much right as Lincoln to fight to keep member states from seceding. Croatia and Slovenia started that war and the national government wasn't prepared at the beginning to go through Zagreb to Ljubliana and suppress the initial rebellion.
That's a tough one because Milosevic was never a Serb patriot but a reformed Yugoslav Communist. When Yugo began breaking up into nationalist enclaves, he did what any astute politico would do - he changed stripes and began waving the Serb flag.
He defintiely was not the blood-lusting maniac the US press made him out to be. Hell, he wore business suits, didn't live in a palace and actually stepped down without calling out the hounds on protestors. Quite un-Saddam like.
The Serbs who should have been supported by the West lived in Bosnia and Krajina. They were patriots, outnumbered and alone, who refused to accept minority status in newly created countries ruled by Islamic extremists.
Their leader was Radovan Karadzic - who was never a threat to the West, the US, American homes or American soldiers - ever.
They simply refused to be forced to live under Islamic rule - no different than 99.9% of all Americans and Canadians would choose to also do.