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To: rbessenger
Unlike in Somalia, or even Iraq, the Milosevic regime threatened the stability of Europe and our NATO allies, that is why it was correct for the US to take the lead in rallying NATO forces to end the destabilizing atrocites.

How exactly did he threaten the stability of Europe and the Allies? Your statement is both preposterous and paradoxical, because it is Europe (namely Germany & Austria) that exacerbated a largely local political crisis into a full-blown civil war. Not that the U.S. is completely blameless, but Europe had allowed things to get out of control by recognizing the unilateral and unconstitutional secession of Slovenia and Croatia (the secession of 11 Southern states precipitated the U.S. Civil War - and this is exactly how the Yugoslav civil war started; by a forced and forceful withdrawal of the two republics from the union). They stupidly allowed the external borders of Yugoslavia to be changed, yet stubbornly insisted on preserving its internal boundaries, arbitrarily drawn by a bunch of drunken Commies somewhere in the hills of Bosnia, in the winter of 1943.

You want to bicker over how many corpses fouled the mass graves. Is there a majic number? Do we go to war over 4001 and but not 4000?

Do you go to war over 4001 corpses, but not the millions in Rwanda? Just a question...

Allowing Milosevic to perform genocide...

What genocide? Did I miss something?

I'm no CLinton fan but to side with Milosevic is siding with a villanous demon.

No one here is siding with Miloshevich. You can't see the forest for the trees, my friend.

37 posted on 01/03/2004 3:01:22 PM PST by Banat ("You've got two empty 'alves of coconut, and you're banging 'em together!")
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To: Banat
No one here is siding with Miloshevich.

Physical evidence and the testimony of witnesses establishes Milosevic as a genocidal tyrant. Any other premise is the same as stating the sky is green and the grass is blue.

Europe had allowed things to get out of control by recognizing the unilateral and unconstitutional secession of Slovenia and Croatia (the secession of 11 Southern states precipitated the U.S. Civil War - and this is exactly how the Yugoslav civil war started; by a forced and forceful withdrawal of the two republics from the union

You're speaking with a southerner (Southeast United States)- raised to believe secession is not contrary to the premise and promise of democracy.

Do you go to war over 4001 corpses, but not the millions in Rwanda? Just a question...

I'm sorry- I missed the volume of posts that you authored during the Rawandan massacre where you demanded intervention. Perhaps you can direct me to your efforts elsewhere if they were not posted here. Is there hypocrisy in your smuggness?

38 posted on 01/04/2004 7:05:30 AM PST by rbessenger
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