[Diocletian]

Considering that I’m from the Balkans I’ll pass on Jared Israel and his Marxist interpretation of Balkan history. Why a member of Free Republic would use a Marxist source like Jared Israel is beyond me.

[wendy1946]

The story of the Balkans comes back the same way pretty much from all sides. People from the surrounding countries were going insane on usenet during the runup to Kosovo, basically asking what the **** did we (Americans) think we were doing, that, basically, there were something like 26 ethnic groups in the Yugo confederation and only two or three, Bosnians, Croats, and albunnies who ever had any sort of a problem dealing with Serbs and those were the three who sided with Hitler during WW-II.

The recent problems in Kosovo started when Milosevic rescinded the autonomy of the region in 89. Basically, he HAD to; every other ethnic group in the province was being brutalized by the Albanians.

The stories on that page are from the NY Times before there was any sort of a NATO or KKKlinton axe to grind on the topic. The stories describe AK behavior:

...Ethnic Albanians in the Government have manipulated public funds and regulations to take over land belonging to Serbs. And politicians have exchanged vicious insults.

Slavic Orthodox churches have been attacked, and flags have been torn down. Wells have been poisoned and crops burned. Slavic boys have been knifed, and some young ethnic Albanians have been told by their elders to rape Serbian girls....

...The federal Secretary for National Defense, Fleet Adm. Branko Mamula, told the army's party organization in September of efforts by ethnic Albanians to subvert the armed forces. ''Between 1981 and 1987 a total of 216 illegal organizations with 1,435 members of Albanian nationality were discovered in the Yugoslav People's Army,'' he said. Admiral Mamula said ethnic Albanian subversives had been preparing for ''killing officers and soldiers, poisoning food and water, sabotage, breaking into weapons arsenals and stealing arms and ammunition, desertion and causing flagrant nationalist incidents in army units....

I mean, the behavior of these people hasn't changed, they were a gigantic problem in Yugoslavia and Kosovo is a gigantic problem now, basically the crime capital of Europe responsible for or involved in more than half of all of numerous major categories of crime including narcotics trafficking, trafficking in women, trafficking in stolen vehicles, and pretty much any sort of thing you could name.

[Bokababe]

“Valin; Hoplite; Tailgunner Joe”

... Uh-oh, Dio just called in the rest of the Black Shirts. LOL!

[Tailgunner Joe]

These rabid Miloseviknik commies always turn to marxist and anti-American sources to sell their lies. Just look at which countries support Serbia over Kosovo: Red China, North Korea, Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, and KGB-run Russia. Their whole mission here is to spread anti-American communist propaganda and whitewash their genocidal communist hero, Slobo.

[getoffmylawn]

I don't know why, but your arguments have gotten much worse the last couple of years. Stop pinging clowns to the Balkans threads. We get enough of them as it is. Hoplite? Tailgunner??? C'mon give me a break. You can do better than that. That's just sloppy.

You're smarter than both of them put together.