[thoughtomator]

Those of us who were watching at the time know that there is a heck of a lot more to this story than the one-sided evil-Serb routine we've heard continuously since 1992.

Who gains, I wonder, by painting the Serbs as the aggressors and initiators of the succession of post-communist Balkan wars?

When it really mattered, the Serbs were with us fighting the Nazis and the Muslims were collaborators. More recently, they have been fighting the Islamokazis, fighting our fight, and we punished them for it.

Our actions in Bosnia were more shameful than anything the Serbs did.

[Hoplite]

the Serbs were with us fighting the Nazis and the Muslims were collaborators.

And we should base America's foreign policy on a misrepresentation of World War 2 history from the Balkans?

No thanks - the Chetniks spent the majority of their time and effort fighting the Partisans, not the Germans, and in this latest round of fighting, slipped completely into role of the bad guys, as evidenced by Nikolic's statement, and got treated accordingly.

Your logic would have compelled us to side with the Chinese against the Koreans (who were incorporated into the Emperor's forces during WW2 - we'll ignore the actuality of the conditions under which this arose in deference to your reasoning in Bosnia) during the Korean war - not really a policy guideline that suits American interests, is it?

Just out of curiosity, are you familiar with the course of the wars in Yugoslavia during either the 1940's or the 1990's?