Posted on 04/26/2008 8:59:45 AM PDT by Ravnagora
Penn State's student newspaper The Daily Collegian reported on Ann Coulter's hour-long speech there this month: "For possibly the first time in her career the conservative commentator, had nothing to say about a political issue. 'I have no opinion,' she told a student who asked her about Kosovo and Ukraine. That may be the first time those words have passed my lips."
"During her hour-long speech to a crowd of more than a thousand in HUB Alumni Hall last week, though, Ms. Coulter spoke candidly about her opinions on a variety of controversial subjects ranging from the war in Iraq to global warming to terrorism."
The usual, in other words. The easy stuff. And on the easy, day-to-day stuff, every conservative loudmouth in America has a strong and ready opinion. But on the fact that in the Kosovo giveaway of 2008 we've just repeated the Munich surrender of 1938 — nothing.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Eurabian jihad bump
Looks like Ann’s holding a tank top with a Lambretta (scooter) on it, alllll right! :D
Any crucial updates to this, I’d appreciate a ping.
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Same way you’d handle the illegals in this country. Deport those in the country illegally, arrest and imprison those who have committed crimes.
....aren’t there anymore picktures?
Americans just can’t be expected to care that much about the national interests of a foreign country. We care about America first, not Serbia first. It’s up to Serbs to fight their own battles. American troops occupy Serbian territory and loyal Americans are simply not going to support foreign forces against our own troops, our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters, our mothers and fathers, our family. Our soldiers mean more to us than the borders of some foreign country. Pick a fight with our soldiers and Serbs will see the instant evaporation of what little support in America there is for their cause. The burning of the US embassy has already sounded the alarm for many Americans.
Kosovo is a little more important than you seem to think. The Serbs cares deeply about Kosovo and view it as their Jerusalem - it is a question of when not if they will fight to get it back. Russia has traditionally backed the Serbs and wants to bring an oil pipeline into Europe through Serbia so it has a strong reason to back the Serbs. The United States and some of the other Western European powers want to protect pipelines that travel through Macedonia just south of Kosovo and thus we have put a new huge military base in Kosovo - Camp Bondsteel. Thus we are likely to at least consider fighting to protect Serbia. This already makes this situation tense - however, being the Balkans their are many other Subplots.
The Albanians (in Kosovo) have territorial claims on the Macedonians to the South. The Albanians in Kosovo would also like to join Albania to great a greater Albania which would also try to claim control over Montenegro. Then you have the Christian vs. Muslim clash which goes back centuries and the discontent between Greece and Nato member Turkey which also factors into this picture. So, at the end of the day the Balkans still easily have the potential to spark a world war.
The allegations of massive ethnic cleansing in Kosovo turned out to be lies. Currently only a few thousand bodies have been found in Kosovo. Many of these dead were KLA fighters, some were Serbian Civilians, and some were probably by mistake in the bombings. A few thousand civilian deaths during a largscale guerrilla war is hardly evidence of ethnic cleansing. The only argument that you could make is that once we started bombing the Serbian army started evicting ethnic Albanians from Kosovo but that can’t be a justification for our bombing because that didn’t start happening until after we started bombing.
You should also consider why the Serbian Army was fighting the KLA. They were kidnapping and killing Serbs and moderate ethnic albanians. They continued with this activity after we won the war for them. Since we took control of Kosovo the Serbian population has been systamatically terrorized and driven out. Around two hundred Serbian Orthodox Churches and monestaries which date back hundreds of years have been desacrated and burned. And now there are reports of hundreds of Serbians who were taken prisoner right after the war and killed - many of whom had their organs sold on the black market.
You would support America under any conditions and this scares me. What would you do if a radical liberal became president and decided to invade Israel because she was defending herself against the terrorists?
Don’t care go away.
That was a little rude. All I was doing was responding to your post with facts that are fairly well substantiated.
You weren’t responding to my post about the fact that my girlfriend and I don’t talk about what went on in her homeland. You were ranting an answer to a question that was never asked.....what two weeks ago?
Would you like to talk about what that animal Milosevic did to his own serbian citizens like my girlfriend?
I was responding your comment from this last sunday that seemed to imply that the Serbs had been committing ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. I hadn’t realized that you had personal ties to the area and I certainly didn’t mean to upset you. I wasn’t intending to rant, I just wanted to point out that not many dead have been found in Kosovo and that the ethnic Albanians weren’t driven out of Kosovo untill after we started bombing. As to Milosevic, I don’t know that much about Internal Serbian politics but I am sure he did some very nasty things as a communist leader. I am sympathetic to the Serbs as a people, and I did have some sympathy for Milosevic when he was on trial in the Hague - because I felt like he was getting a kangaroo trial. However, I am sure that he was dictator with not terribly many personally redeeming qualities.
Post 38 where you said “Oppose yes, ethnically cleanse a 90% population no.” was what I was replying to. I actually, had missed the earlier post where you talked about your girlfriend.
You’re right but I never accused anyone of ethnic cleansing on a widespread scale. In fact my girlfriend hates the Clintons for bombing her home but feels that NATO should have stepped in 20 years earlier to prevent the flood of muslims in the first place and may have prevented Milosevic from ever gaining power. However I don’t see any way to remove 90% of a population without ethnic cleansing.
Oh, ok. I misunderstood your post then.
Long time no see. Good to see you back posting. I hope you are doing well.
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