Well, Diocletie, gettin’ all hot and bothered by this thread, huh? Deep breaths, bring that blood pressure down. Funny you haul out the little noobie ad hominem, when you’ve been taken down repeatedly in the other Balkan threads by numerous posters for your own strawmen on this issue.
You also seem to be missing the significance of this thread in the first place which is that, for quite possibly the first time, a more balanced perspective on the Kosovo conflict is finally emerging in the mainstream media. A welcome trend.
Are Ms. Del Ponte’s accusations accurate? Who knows? There has been a good deal of talk about this supposed organ-harvesting ring in Kosovo at the hands of the KLA. Perhaps there’s some truth to it. Perhaps not.
What we do know for certain, is that both sides in the Kosovo conflict have dirty hands yet, up until recently, the Serbs were almost uniformly accused of wrongdoing while the KLA— a known terrorist organization involved in narcoterrorism, arms dealing and human trafficking— was basically given a pass from the media. This, despite clear and documented evidence of prior KLA atrocities against not only Serbs but Roma and many others within Kosovo— especially the mass ethnic cleansing carried out by the KLA in 2004, with associated mass vandalism of Orthodox churches and monasteries. Something that was almost ignored in the media.
Now that’s changing. I’m not a fan myself, and I’m not terribly happy that del Ponte is the vector of this change, considering her own spotty record. But the very fact that even she is re-balancing her own views, as well as the mainstream media, means that the get-out-of-jail-free card held by the KLA Islamofascists has finally been used up. And to the extent this leads to halfway-intelligent policy in the region, without the expenditure of billions of $US and even more US soldiers in our already hard-pressed military— that’s a very welcome thing.
Funny you haul out the little noobie ad hominem, when you’ve been taken down repeatedly in the other Balkan threads by numerous posters for your own strawmen on this issue.
That's funny, considering that I haven't discussed this issue on FR before.
Is it your habit to make up lies?