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To: Bokababe
Interesting parallel with another thread about a Serb centuries earlier who alerted Vienna that the Turks were tunneling under the walls and planting mines.

No good deed goes unpunished, however. The U.S. and NATO bombed Serbia on behalf of the Muslims, and betrayed Mihailovic in preference to the Commie Tito.

4 posted on 01/09/2010 8:35:18 PM PST by hellbender
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To: hellbender
NATO bombed Serbia on behalf of the Muslims,...

I am not sure that I would agree with you...the water is a bit muddier than you would like to think.

Specifically, the primary reason the US (and NATO) went to war was because NATO found itself sucked into the the Kosovo conflict which was because there was a prevailing belief -at that time - that if the conflict was not stopped, it would soon spill over into Macedonia.

If that happened then that republic's neighbors would be brought in. Albania would invoke its defense treaties with Turkey, Greece would then become involved and there were worries that there might be repercussions in Cyprus. As such, it was thought that it might be better to become involved too early then too late.

Another point I would make, is that the NATO bombings were, unfortunately, a (knee-jerk) reaction to Serbian actions from Dubrovnik to Vukovar, to Sarajevo, to Srebrenica.

5 posted on 01/09/2010 9:27:02 PM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: hellbender
"Interesting parallel with another thread about a Serb centuries earlier who alerted Vienna that the Turks were tunneling under the walls and planting mines.

No good deed goes unpunished, however. The U.S. and NATO bombed Serbia on behalf of the Muslims, and betrayed Mihailovic in preference to the Commie Tito.

I often wonder if they are simply going after the most resourceful, stubborn and defiant people first -- and Serbs just happen to repeatedly top that that list. Serbs are really terrible at blind obedience to an oppressor.

7 posted on 01/10/2010 12:29:25 AM PST by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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