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From the article, I want to say, we considered USA a country ‘across the lake’. We don’t understand what happened with our relationship.”

I can tell you. The Serbs ran afoul of the same people that let the Muslims run amok through the mid-late 90s. The same people that are directly responsible for allowing 9-11 to take place.

I never paid close attention to the Balkan's conflict, other than thinking that we should step back and see how things shook out. After 9-11, I've come to realize that while the Serbs are not pure as the driven snow, as some would have us believe, they definitely were/are not the monsters that the media has made them out to be. In fact, I can honestly say that I would probably react the same way if my home and family were threatened with what they were.

The US owes them an apology, and if Milosevic is on trial, then Bill Clinton should be , too.

Well, Milosevic's "original sin" was that he was a socialist who resisted the West's push (led mainly by Germany and the US) for the breakup of Yugoslavia as far back as 1989. He didn't want to subject Yugoslavia to the painful economic reforms of privatization, strict IMF rules, etc. that were afflicting so many of the other former Eastern-Bloc countries under communist rule.

Because of his resistance to the West, the western media painted the conflicts in the Balkans as a war of good (The Muslims) against evil (The Serbs). As such, and with strong media support, it was easy for the Clinton administration to stigmatize Serbia as a rogue nation. Unfortunately, we're still paying the price for this negative stigmatization.

This is Slobodan Milosevic, an innocent man being tried by a so-called International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, Holland, presumably for attempting to deport (or ethnically cleanse) albanian islammites from a Serbian province for barbaric conduct over a protracted period of time.

One assumes that the Dutch are practicing to try themselves for ethnic cleansing and genocide, since they themselves are now beginning to expell muslims from their own country, also for barbaric conduct over a protracted period of time.

One can only assume that barbaric conduct over protracted periods of time is a sort of an islammite specialty.

Now, one way to prevent yourself from being charged with hypocricy, is to start torturing people. For the same reason that nobody would ever charge Al Capone with shoplifting, nobody would ever charge somebody like Adolf Eichman or Joseph Mengele with hypocrisy.

Thus it comes out that a prosecution witness in this trial of Slobodan Milosevic stood up in the courtroom and stated that prosecutors had attempted to torture an accusation against Milosevic out of him.

Now, in an American courtroom, that would be the instantaneous end of the trial and the prosecutor's career (doing anything other than washing dishes in the courtroom cafeteria) right there.

Thus there should be a question of how Americans would want to be associated with this process even before you consider the fact that Americans soundly reject the entire premise of the ICC and have gone as far as to pass a law requiring the president of the United States to use military force to rescue any American being held by that "tribunal". In other words, Holland would face the armed might of the United States military were it to try to do to any American what it is doing to Milosevic.

My advice to the Dutch: Don't sit around trying to guess whether or not that "Hague Invasion Act" is real or some sort of a joke; go ahead, try it. Kidnap some American soldier or political official and put him on trial for some sort of war crime charge in the Hague. I can't think of anything I'd have more fun watching than that, other than having the spetznaz rescue Slobodan Milosevic of course.

That may be true, but Bob Dole has gotten a lot of praise for his work in the Balkans, and Samantha Power always mentions the quote from Bubba regarding his "getting creamed" by Bob Dole on the Balkans issue. I have always read that Bubba resisted all petitions to intervene, some people in his administration resigned over his inaction, and he finally got involved once he started looking bad in the media. Also, wasn't the massacre of civilians in Srebrenica another UN/Koffee Annan do-nothing tragedy? I believe Dore Gold described it that way in his book "Tower of Babble."