Clinton: Serbs must be stopped now

CNN.com ^ | March 23, 1999 | CNN

[Andy from Beaverton]

Is he still looking for the mass graves of Albanians? Maybe they are under the stadium that had 100,000 prisoners.

[RC2]

This should be left to Europe. If they don’t want to do anything about it, neither should we. We can’t protect the whole world.

[Ravnagora]

[richardtavor]

RC2, this was 10 years ago.

[skeeter]

The Serbian menace must be stopped!

In hindsight ol' 'toon would sound goofy if the whole episode wasn't so tragic.

[Redleg Duke]

Yeah, we gotta get those damned Christians!

[Bokababe]

"Serbs must be stopped now....

....to make way for Osama-sponsored, narco-terrorist, church-burning, jihadist Albanians!

"Day Made of Fear"

This film, made in 2006, was was recently shown to the OSCE ministers of Europe. The film maker is fund-raising to translate this film into all the languages used at the UN, so that it can be shown there and Julia Gorin has an appeal on her blog for this effort. He needs only $18K for the world to have this truth shown in the light of day.

[tessalu]

Clinton has no morals, for he was dirtying up the oval office with Monica Lewinsky while the Capitol of Serbia was being bombed. The little Serbian babies were in the bomb shelters while this was going on. I was talking to a Serbian broadcaster mother, who was working in a television station while this was going on. I despise the wicked deeds of Bill Clinton at this time. May God give to him his just dues.

[Bokababe]

And by the way, re "the Stolic family" mentioned in the video who were murdered, the video didn't say how they were killed but the news did:

OBILIC, Serbia-Montenegro, June 4 (AFP) - An elderly Serb couple and their son were axed to death and their house was set on fire Wednesday in one of the worst incidents of violence in Kosovo in recent months, a United Nations official said.

Slobodan Stolic, 80, his wife Radmila, 78, and their son Ljubinko, 53, were murdered in their house at Obilic, some 15 kilometers (nine miles) northwest of the Kosovo capital Pristina around 2:30 am (0030 GMT), UN spokesman Andrea Angeli said.

The house was then set alight by the unknown attackers, he said.

[jerod]

Domestic politics had as much to do with his enthusiasm to bomb the hell out of Serbia as anything else.

From the minute Bubba said ‘I did not have sexual relations with that women - Ms. Lewinsky’, taking America’s minds off Monica, impeachment, etc. was priority number 1 in the Clinton Administration and if bombing Canada wouldn’t have been too inconvenient, he would’ve done that too.

He bombed Sudan and Afghanistan the day Monica testified.

He bombed Iraq the day that congress impeached him.

That’s the biggest perk about being President... When you order the military to do something, the don’t say ‘Why?’, they just do it.

[Hoplite]

The mass graves at Batajnica are all the justification we need.

We expected you to act like you did in Bosnia, and it turns out you did.

So you got bombed and left Kosovo with your tails between your legs.

While I understand the Serbian national pastime is perpetuating your victimhood myth, when it's built upon lies and factual omissions, as it is in the case of Kosovo, it becomes more of a sad joke than anything else.

[Ravnagora]

While I understand the Serbian national pastime is perpetuating your victimhood myth...

Hoplite, I'll have to agree that focusing on "victimhood" is a "Serbian national pastime". That is not necessarily healthy for a nation or a people. Serbs have much that is positive that they have contributed to the world and they need to focus more on that. And so does the world. Some of their counterparts in the Balkans have contributed little of value to the world.

However, Serbian "victimhood" is no myth.

Why do you hate Serbs so much?

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[jerod]

It appeared to me that Kosovo was a province of Serbia that became inundated with pro-Albania Muslim immigrants. That portion of their population (many of them non-citizens) became more militant and agitated for separation. The Serbs may not have dealt with this problem properly, and obviously both sides have cried foul at some point or another, but it was obviously domestic politics pure and simple.

So when California decides at some point in the future that it wants to separate from the United States, or join Mexico, it’ll be fine with you if Washington get’s bombed to oblivion by a foreign power to force American forces and American nationals out of California?

[Steve Van Doorn]

Bin Laden sets up a base of Operation in 1998 Kosovo:
(quick search finds):
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/news/binl.htm

Now our soldiers protect a Bin Laden’s Mosque in Kosovo after we destroyed or damaged 150 Serbian Churches :
unfrenking believable

[Alberta's Child]

Any criticism leveled at the Clinton administration for its Kosovo/Serbia policy should be tempered by the complicity and support of many so-called "conservatives" in that debacle.

Take note of how many @ssholes who signed the following letter ended up playing key roles in the George W. Bush administration:

September 11, 1998 Letter to Bill Clinton

[Alberta's Child]

And there's more, too . . .

January 29, 1999 Letter to Bill Clinton

[Ravnagora]

“Any criticism leveled at the Clinton administration for its Kosovo/Serbia policy should be tempered by the complicity and support of many so-called “conservatives” in that debacle.”

Thanks very much for pointing out this letter. I’m including the full text of it here. I was truly surprised to see John Bolton’s name on it, as he subsequently, 9 years later, advocated very strongly against the recognition of Kosovo as independent.

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September 11, 1998

The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

We are writing out of deep concern for the plight of the ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo, many thousands of whom, having been driven from their homes and farms by the latest Serbian offensive, now face the possibility of a winter of starvation. Over 15 percent of the Kosovo population is already homeless. It is inexplicable to us that the West simply watches as this disaster grows daily after watching similar disasters unfold in Bosnia between 1992-95.

Stopping the carnage in Kosovo is essential and requires decisive action by the West. But this will not by itself provide a solution to the continuing Balkan conflict.

Mr. President, the events of recent months, when added to the history of the conflict since 1991, lead to one inescapable conclusion: There can be no peace and stability in the Balkans so long as Slobodan Milosevic remains in power. He started the Balkan conflict, and he continues it in Kosovo. He has caused untold suffering to millions; he has severely damaged his own country. We must face the facts.

We understand that the United States has sought and on occasion achieved Milosevic’s cooperation in carrying out the Dayton settlement; and there is no guarantee that a successor to Milosevic will be significantly more committed to peace. Nevertheless, we believe the time has come for the United States to distance itself from Milosevic and actively support in every way possible his replacement by a democratic government committed to ending ethnic violence. Our “pact with the devil” has outlived whatever usefulness it once had.

At a minimum, the United States should lead an international effort along the following lines:

• First, the humanitarian crisis needs to be addressed urgently. Milosevic must order his police and military forces to stop all violence immediately. However, the crisis cannot be ended without an agreement on a new political status for Kosovo. And that will require massive Western pressure on Milosevic.

• Second, the administration should seek, and the Congress should approve, a substantial increase in funds for supporting the democratic opposition within Serbia.

• Third, the U.S. and its allies must do everything possible to tighten the economic sanctions on Serbia to help undermine Milosevic’s ability to maintain his power in Belgrade.

• Fourth, the administration should cease attempting to strike diplomatic bargains with Milosevic.

• Finally, the U.S. should vigorously support The Hague tribunal’s investigation of Milosevic as a war criminal.

Mr. President, we are under no illusion that the steps we recommend are easy or guarantee success. We are certain, however, that after seven years of aggression and genocide in the Balkans, the removal of Milosevic provides the only genuine possibility of a durable peace. We urge you to act forcefully in this crisis, and we offer you our full support should you do so.

Sincerely,

Morton I. Abramowitz
Elliott Abrams
Richard L. Armitage
Nina Bang-Jensen
Jeffrey Bergner
George Biddle
John R. Bolton
Frank Carlucci
Eliot Cohen
Seth Cropsey
Dennis DeConcini
Paula Dobriansky
Morton H. Halperin
John Heffernan
James R. Hooper
Bruce P. Jackson
Robert Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
Lane Kirkland
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Peter Kovler
William Kristol
Mark P. Lagon
Richard Perle
Peter Rodman
Gary Schmitt
Stephen Solarz
Helmut Sonnenfeldt
William Howard Taft IV
Ed Turner
Wayne Owens
Paul Wolfowitz
Dov S. Zakheim

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[Dante3]

Excellent comments.