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you and your friends were busy destroying my country

My country is the USA and we did not destroy your country of Serbia. You guys managed to do that for yourselves.

No American made Milosevic fight wars with four of his neighbors. No American ordered Serb soldiers to murder 8,000 people at Srebrenica or slaughter hundreds of others at Vukovar or drive 860,000 Albanians out of their homes and over the border or to deliberately destroy hundreds of churches in Croatia and hundreds of mosques in Bosnia. And no American made those that committed those atrocities into national heroes. And it darn sure wasn't Americans who made Milosevic take those millions in Oil for Food money from Saddam Hussein and ship munitions and even Serb military advisers to Iraq.

The reasons that sanctions and with-holding of American aid and cooperation with Serbia began under the first President Bush and continued under this President Bush is not because of Clinton or Albright or because W likes Osama--and the reason Serbia is moving its way back into good standing with America is not because of who is in charge in America, its because of what you are finally doing in Serbia to change your ways. You quit fighting wars with your neighbors. You've quit supporting the Greater Serbia project. You threw out your criminal leader. You've dismantled the state-run media that propagandized the Serb populace. You're starting to cooperate with the war crimes tribunal and even trying the Vukovar miscreants yourselves.

dj, you've got to get over this victimology complex. Take responsibility for your actions. Your government in Belgrade is starting to do so and your cousins in Srpska are as well.

US Balkans policy in general and toward Serbia specifically has been pretty consistent over the past three administrations. It is based on American values and interests. It is applied based on Serb actions. Continue to change your actions and W & Condi will continue to apply less stick and more carrots.