To: FormerLib
I don't think the ethnic hatred between the two sides would enable the Serbs to be sufficiently neutral. I chose the Italians as they've been the most benign power in Jugoslavia since the Romans (during WWII)
24 posted on
03/19/2004 7:02:16 AM PST by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: Cronos
I don't think the ethnic hatred between the two sides would enable the Serbs to be sufficiently neutral.That's irrelevant as the UN has already acknowledged that Kosovo lies within the international borders of Serbia. It is their nation and it will take an occupying army to keep them out.
26 posted on
03/19/2004 7:32:13 AM PST by
FormerLib
("Homosexual marriage" is just another route to anarchy.)
To: Cronos
The Italian soldiers were particularly noted for saving Jews in Croatia from being killed by the Croats (Ustasha). Wherever Italians had control the Jews were protected. Don't know if the Italians protected the Serbs in Croatia as much. In Kosovo, they seemed to slow it down - the killings of Serbs by Albanians - and yet their country was responsible for raising Albanian fascists in the first place. Kosovo Albanian fascists wouldn't have had as much success in the first place without the Italians.
27 posted on
03/19/2004 7:36:55 AM PST by
joan
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