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To: Liz

Absolutely agree.

But what kind of hypocrites do we look like to the world when we demand one thing for ourselves, but something else from another country in the same circumstance?

We look like idiot bullies!


14 posted on 03/31/2006 12:56:47 PM PST by Bokababe
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To: Bokababe
But what kind of hypocrites do we look like to the world when we demand one thing for ourselves, but something else from another country in the same circumstance?

Uh, Bokababe, the situations are not comparable. The Serbs under Milosevic changed their constitution and took away self-rule in Kosovo--the equivalent of what we have at the state level, removed Albanian mayors & judges & police and replaced them with Serbs--often from outside the province, shut down Albanian language newspapers, fired Albanian workers & again put Serbs in their places, arbitrarily imprisoned Albanian political leaders and protestors for years at a time, and closed Albanian schools & fired Albanian teachers.

Then when some of the Albanians had enough and began fighting back, the Serbs predictably over-reacted with their typical (if you paid attention to Bosnia and Croatia) burning of villages and disregard for civilian casualties. Also, predictably, the heavy-handed Serb tactics turned a minor insurgency into a full-blown, popularly supported war of liberation.

When the US government removes legitimately elected and appointed Hispanic officials, when our soldiers surround Hispanic populated villages in California and fire tank rounds into them, when we change our Constitution to emplace direct federal rule over Arizona and New Mexico, then you can start comparing how Serbia treated Kosovo with the USA.

36 posted on 04/03/2006 5:18:39 PM PDT by mark502inf
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