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Not to digress, but I was merely pointing out to a previous poster that Mr. Clinton was directly involved in a war. In fact, Yugoslavia was only one of four countries that the Clinton administration bombed. Don't misunderstand me, I am not a fan of the current president either, war is war, people die and I believe killing is morally reprehensible for any reason. The fact is, it doesn't really matter who is at the helm, all of these so called leaders make mistakes, unfortunately on a global level. The so called "noble" cause of stopping the genocide that was taking place was a great idea and I think everyone agress that that bastard had to be stopped; however, it had serious consequences. In the wake of that terrible maelstrom, one of the key nations in that area that had previously renounced nuclear weapons and disarmed (becoming the one and only country EVER to do so), subsequently revived their nuclear program. Both the Ukraine and the Soviet Union modernized and restocked their nuclear arsenals as a direct result of this conflict. Did the end justify the means? Who can say? Yeah, the killing stopped but even to this day, thousands upon thousands of refugees have not returned to their homeland. They probably never will especially since the horror of the nuclear threat is even greater than it was before.
No political gain? Consider this...
Is it possible that the United States was anxious to exploit the power vacuum created by the Soviet collapse to rapidly project its power eastward? There are vast untapped reserves of oil and natural gas in the then newly-independent Central Asian republics of the old USSR. Within this new geopolitical environment, the Balkans assumed exceptional strategic importance as a vital logistical staging ground for the projection of imperialist power toward Central Asia.
This is way off topic, but thought you might be interested.
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-- Massimo d'Azeglio
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