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To: Bokababe
I can care less about the region, no ties what so ever culturally or by family, that's an issue you're obviously grappling with.

The conclusion drawn based on the source and the timing of it all...... it's obvious.

26 posted on 03/05/2011 3:50:59 PM PST by Red6
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To: Red6
I can care less about the region, no ties what so ever culturally or by family, that's an issue you're obviously grappling with.

The only thing that I am grappling with is why you choose to read and comment on a subject you "have no interest in".

I am an American -- that has no qualifiers or hyphens and needs none. My father came to the US from Montenegro as a kid back in the 1920's and served in the US Army during WWII. My mother was born here and her family also came from Montenegro about 1905. I studied Balkan history long before the wars in former Yugoslavia because I had and interest in it and we were family friends with a guy name Wayne Vucinich who started and chaired the Balkan and Eastern European History Department at Stanford for decades. Part of the relationship was that "Uncle Wayne" always brought me a new book to read, which is why I can say without qualification that what the American people was fed about the former Yugoslavia was a crock.

The conclusion drawn based on the source and the timing of it all...... it's obvious.

I don't know what you think is "obvious", but everything I have ever said and ever encouraged was that the US take NO sides in the former Yugoslavia and stay out it. We had no interest there, we were making all the wrong moves, and I knew our actions would come back to bite us -- and they have -- repeatedly.

If you want me to apologize for being an avid reader and interested in a subject that you aren't interested in, then I'd say I am guilty. If you are accusing me of being anti-American because I have knowledge and interest in a part of the world that you don't, then you have either drawn a mistaken conclusion about me or you are a complete jackass.

27 posted on 03/05/2011 6:51:30 PM PST by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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