Is that supposed to be an attempt to justify a war crime, Jim?
Are you saying that executing terrorists is a "war crime"? Or is it only a war crime to execute muslim terrorists?
Are you an Al Qaeda apologist?
No, but what does Al Qaeda have to do with Srebrenica? The AQ folks were in central Bosnia, not in the eastern enclaves, and furthermore started arriving after the Serbs started on their Bosnian killing spree.
Did your Al Qaeda cavalry arrive on white horses?
You might want to read Evan Kohlmann's "Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe : The Afghan-Bosnian Network" before you attempt to expound upon the subject.
At some point, I think it best to stop reading and start relying on intuition.
I was duped by a lot of what I read in the press during the propaganda war leading up to US involvement in that conflict.
I seem to remember pictures of grieving Croats that were reported to be mourning the death of family members killed by Serbs, only to learn later that the Croats were killed by Muslims.
I remember seeing video of dead bodies reported to be Croats murdered by Serbs only to learn later that the mutilated bodies were actually Serbs.
I remember feeling outraged that Serbs bombed a marketplace only to find out later that the Muslims set off the bomb for the purpose of gaining sympathy from the west, it worked.
I remember being outraged at the news that Christian Serbs were burning down churches but my intuition tells me that it was Muslims that did the burning and blaming it on the Serbs was more disinformation.
And finally, yes, Milosevic's wars. He started them with the express intent of maintaining and furthering his own power, and to hell with the actual consequences to his constituents or Serbia's neighbors. I really don't care what folks are calling Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom - they're nothing like Milosevic's wars, so I don't consider your question being either relevant or altogether informed. You don't know much about Milosevic's wars, do you?
For you people, any action taken for self preservation against Muslim aggression is a crime, the proper thing to do is let them have what they want, right? If you are the leader of the Serbs and Muslims want a united Bosnia to contain territory where Serbs live, the thing to do is just let them have it, right? If you want to "maintain" something that others want to take away, the maintainer is the culprit, right?
By the way, why were the muslims slaughtering Croats?
First you try to bring Al Qaeda into the discussion, when they were nowhere near Srebrenica, and now you're trying to frame the discussion in terms of "terrorists", when the majority of the Serb's victims in Bosnia were killed simply for not being Serb.
You weren't captain of your school's debate team, were you?
Did your Al Qaeda cavalry arrive on white horses?
Weak, Jim. Just weak.
Bosnia was, and remains a Christian majority state. What it wasn't, and what the Serbs went to war to create, was a monoethnic Serb state. And for that reason they're treated like the moral lepers they are, and are having their little bastard statelet disassembled piece by worthless piece. To put it plainly, the Republika Srpska is anathema to American values, regardless of who's in the White House.
So suck it up, and if your intuition tells you to keep your "I was a sucker before, but I'm a bigger sucker now!" SOB story to yourself, listen to it - for it will have gotten something right.