Our war started with the Barbary Wars.
I think you would find that the Serb’s war still far pre-dates that. Theres started in the late 14th Century when the Turks started to bypass Constantinople and invade Europe. Then they continued under Turkish rule for centuries untill sometime in the 19th Century as the Ottoman Empire began to decay.
We did that and it was a huge step at the time. That was another case where the rest of the world let them get away with murder, extortion, slavery, piracy, theft, etc and did nothing of substance.
They did it one to many times to a small, new nation and we went and corrected it. Europe continued to live with the abuses of Islam for 200 more years. Except for the Balkans the rest of Europe was basically silent on the abuses.
Serbia and that region have had to deal with the darker side of the moslems for centuries. Bad things happened on both sides in Serbia but we should not have BOMBED them.
Thanks for the insight — that was fascinating and very enlightening. Now I know where we get “From the shores of Tripoli...”
the war between islam and the west really goes back to Mohammad and it can go all the way back to Ishmael.