Unless my memory has failed me, didn't the Pope support the bombing of the Serbs while the UN was circumvented? Could it be that the Pope is trying some sort of rapproachment with Islam at the expense of Christians? Don't know the answer. All I know is the US has not and I suspect will not attack peaceful muslim nations nor does the US discourage the religion. This is about Saddam.
Make one cut in those large rubber bands (gumbans here in Pittsburgh) that they wrap around broccoli and save them for a tourniquet to stop profuse bleeding.
The special status of the Serbs (yeoman farmers, etc.), I believe, came about because they took over vacated lands between the Croats and the Turks and were thus the first line of defense and first in line for destruction. Given the Serbs treatment by the Turks they were only too happy to be on the hot seat.
02/09/2003 3:44:23 PM PST
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If you do not see what ethnic cleansing of Serbs has to do with ethnic cleansing of others, you are not an FP Wonk. Look at it this way. As soon as the first person was cleansed all sides were trying to figure out a way to let the other person pay the price for their ethnicity. I've said this many times before, the war in Yugo was, at the ground level about fear and making sure "what happened last time doesn't happen again."
How else can you explain the FACT that in my part of the US tomorrow there will be a car going to work carrying a Serb, Muslim, and Croatian refugee from the Bosnian civil war? To me its easy--no fear.
I had dinner with Serge, who I found to be a true gentleman. It's a shame that they are trying to paint him as a Milosevic lackey through CAIR's propaganda wing.