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Originally posted by LewisCouch
Actually, the four year anniversary of Mr. Clinton's war was just two months ago. It is commonly referred to as the "Balkan War." This particular effort by NATO did have the UN Security Councils ' blessing, however.
"On March 24 Serbian people around the world will recall with horror the shameful destruction of their country by the US led NATO Alliance. Four years ago, for 78 days and nights, NATO aircraft pounded Yugoslavia inflicting terrible damage on the civilian infrastructure of the country.
Further, NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia will be regarded by future historians as the act that completely dismantled the international security framework so carefully crafted by democratic statesmen in the aftermath of two World Wars and the advent of nuclear weapons. It will be marked, as the point in history when other so-called democratic leaders acted dishonorably to set the clock back to the days prior to the Second World War when military might was the only criterion that counted in the conduct of international relations."
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Actually, I generally think shooting people is generally wrong.
But the war in Yugoslavia was actually a puzzling one for me. There was no economic or political angle. It was started to stop the people from killing each other.
Now before you go off about the whole Balkan situation, i understand that it's very complex and there was this slaughter 700 years ago where the cros killed the peaceful serbs, and then 500 years ago, the Turks killed the peaceful serbs, then in WW2 to there was the ooshtashaw who were cros and they were allied with Hitler and they killed some more peaceful serbs. Blah blah blah.
BUT
The war in Yugoslavia was brief and it was meant to stop the violence and it suceeded in doing that.
The motive for the war was noble - to bring an end to slobo milosovic and his reign of terror. The serbs, cros, slovenians, muslims, and albanians all hate each other and all want to kill each other (well, all is a strong word, let me rephrase that, many want to kill each other to right past injustices....)
But, the military action by the UN was the last resort, all else HAD failed.
There was no oil driving it.
There was no weapons of mass anything.
There was no political gain.
It was a noble case of world leaders deciding that enough was enough, and as disgusting as it was, they were going to bring an end to it the only way slobo understood.
The americans, the UN, had NO DESIRE IN THE WORLD to move into Yugoslavia, or serbia. In fact, i am sure that they found it most disgusting to have to involve themselves in another country's affairs.
If the Americans / UN had not used force, I have no doubt that slobo would still be "ethnic cleansing" away, and building the new "greater Serbia". Instead, he's in court in the Hague I believe right at this moment, and, if he is innocent like he says he is, he will be cleared.
Ancient injustices, whether real or perceived, do not give give the Serbs the right to slaughter innocent people.