Articles written when Kosovo was not famous...
Background material about Kosovo, especially the material disseminated by mainstream channels, is deficient in many aspects, but perhaps the most startling feature of many such articles is the singular way of examining the history of the region. We are told that Kosovo is the cradle of Serbian nation and we learn about the battle of 1389 and then, in most articles, with a gigantic leap that would make envious any athlete, the article strides 600 years later, in 1989, when the Kosovo autonomy was rescinded by Milosevic. What happened during these 600 years, pray tell? Or, at least, what happened during the last few years before 1989?
It is now difficult to write about the recent past of Kosovo without taking into account the war which is raging just now. So, it occurred to me that if I managed to find articles written in the 80s, when Kosovo was not famous, at least these would be free of any bias due to the later events.
A good friend who is also a wizard in database searching undertook the task and here is the fruit of his labours, a bunch of older articles about Kosovo. Be warned, the articles were not written for posterity. These were run-of-the-mill, "boring" articles about contemporary events. But perhaps here lies their interest, for they present the situation without any make-up. Anyway, here they are...
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Cowboy? COWBOY? Thank you. I haven't felt so good since the first time my wife asked me if I was a cop.
I'm fed up with you claiming here some moral highground.
I ain't perfect, we ain't perfect. But SOMEBODY had to blow the whistle on the wargy of '95.
You can come up with bs like Srebrenica and I'll tell you about Nasir Oric.
Oooh ooh ooh, Nasir Oric, the boogyman. Oooh. Oooh. Interesting cat. Granted, he's a thug, and he certainly did some things that were Not Very Nice. But you know what? The ICTY has dug and dug and dug through the evidence of his war time activities: they'd LOVE to send his butt to the Hague. But every time they dig into his "war crimes" they turn out to be just militarily successful guerilla raids. They have never found ANY evidence he committed atrocities. Did he kill a lot of SBA soldiers? Youbetcha. Did he kill civilians in combat? A few. Did he stick old people into churches and massacre them? No. Zero evidence has been found of that. The ICTY very publicly arrested him a few years ago. They let him go for lack of evidence. Pi$$ed them off too--they would have LOVED to show how evenhanded they were. But you know those damn lawyers and those damn rules of evidence...
Is he a crook? Oh yes, he belongs in jail. But is he a war criminal? So far, doesn't look like it.
Or what about the killings in Vukovar by the ZNG'e, before the serbs liberated the town?
What about the killings in Vukovar before the CROATS "liberated" the town?
The Racak hoax? What about the extermination of native americans, the indians? What about Hiroshima, Nagasaki? What about agent orange in Vietnam? You don't have any moral highground.
Maybe not, but we got drug in there willy nilly. I'm here to tell you this: I, and my friends, didn't kill any indians. We didn't nuke Hiroshima. We weren't in 'Nam. And SOMEBODY had to sort things out. No, we're sinners. But Satan forever points at the sinner and screams "SINNER!" to keep the sinner from interfering with Satan's work. No, we're not perfect. We're just the only thing to put a stop to what happened.
Climb down from your horse and start answering to my questions from the begining of this discussion.
Read on, MacDuff. Or is that Duffovic...