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Whoops! I was wrong. You ARE STILL defending Comrade Slobbo years after the commie satrap was removed from power. As George Will once wrote, the Balkans have created a lot more history than could ever be consumed locally. He was NOT complimenting the Balkans. Tito faded away. Slobbo rose. Same old, same old. Alois Cardinal Stepinac, pray for them that they may settle down into a well-deserved obscurity.

Is there something that the Serbs of Kosovo or Serbia have ever done to deserve American intervention on their behalf???

BTW, in the next few weeks, a prominent Serbian American, Rod Blagojevich will become the fourth Illinois governor (three of the four are/were Demonrats and the fourth a lying weasel RINO named George Ryan) of the last six sent to the federal hoosegow. Lest you be tempted to defend him, he is being sent to the hoosegow, like his predecessors (and hopefully to be followed by Pat Quinn) as a crook and not at all because of his Serbian ancestry. His equally Serbian brother from Tennessee was acquitted by the original jury.

You seem to want to make this personal, Black Elk, with all the personal attacks & baits that go off in every direction. Not interested. I'm here to talk about the relevant issue at hand. It's why when you asked my opinion on something else back in July, I told you that I hold no grudges. It's all intellectual to me here at FR. If I want to join a club, it won't be one that hides behind a keyboard.

Real conservatism isn't "a club", it's a political ideology that like it or not, contains strong elements of libertarianism at its core. And when Republicans stray too far from that and start trying to socialize the country in any direction, the libertarians will always be the group that tries to pull them back to those core values of the rights of the individual. It's the way it is and the way it's always been, which is why Ronald Reagan said that "libertarianism is the heart and soul of conservatism".

Almost 30 years ago in Beirut, Lebanon, the US lost 250 US soldiers to a suicide truck bomb. The response of our president was NOT to retaliate and start a war; it was to bring our troops home, later saying that "the politics of the Middle East are too complicated and irrational to get our soldiers involved in".

In today's political theater, that same president for same those actions would inevitably be vilified and called "a surrender monkey". But that very real scenario and very real president was Ronald Reagan -- you know the guy that all the current Republican candidates are currently pretending to carry the mantel of.

So please tell me what's changed? Have the politics of the Middle East gotten any less irrational? Or has what's called "conservativism" so changed that it has become just as irrational?