Posted on 09/12/2003 3:22:30 AM PDT by konijn
Don't walk away, run.
While European newspapers headlined "Muslims 'slaughter their own people'," (The [London] Independent, 22 Aug. 1992,) "Serbs 'not gilty' of massacre," (The Sunday [London] Times, 1 Oct. 1995,} and "U.S. Framed Serbs for Market Bombing," (The Stoneyhill Centre, Gloucester, UK, 18 Oct. 1995,) no such headlines were read by Americans. Furthermore, Yossef Bodansky, author of "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War On America," wrote in his 1995 book, "Offensive in the Balkans," that the mortar used in the bombing of the Markale market place in Sarajevo, the excuse Clinton used to bomb the Bosnian Serbs, was DESIGNED with the help of HezbAllah, and was self-inflicted to further demonize the Serbs and to gain sympathy for the Bosnian Muslims. Mujahedin from all over the Islamic world converged into Bosnia while the Clinton and the Blair administrations not only looked the other way but encouraged Iran to ship arms and weapons into Bosnia.
Bosnia, today, is Islam's corridor into Europe along with it's prostitution and drugs. Kosovo is a basket case with Osama bin Laden's KLA terrorists murdering remaining Serbs and I'm sure anyone who defends Islamic actions in the Balkans are in pure "hog heaven."
Western journalists call this a success.
As for the World Trade Center 1993, the Serbs were accused of the bombing. For three days, well-known American radio commentator Paul Harvey said that the Serbs were guilty of bombing the WTC, according to his CIA contacts. Even after he learned that the Serbs had not committed this atrocity, he never apologized to Americans of Serbian descent. Such reports caused American Serbs to be subjected to harassment; desecration of their churches; loss of jobs. I'm sure many Serb-haters writing their comments here were delighted with the outcome.
"Yet a cool analysis of todays disparate Islamic terror groups, created in Afghanistan and emboldened by the Bosnian experience, would do much to shed some light on precisely the dangers of such intervention." Scarey.
Thanks for posting this
Without having to state who was the morally superior president at the time, we should recognize our role in the biggest political blunder of the 20th century in Serbia/Bosnia.
Wait.
Chamberlain.
Maybe the second biggest.
Well you should have. Because we did.
How old are you, anyway?
1. Was the benefit of an alliance with Al Qaeda greater than the cost of the consequences (Al Qaeda infiltation into U.S. intel community)?
2. Why the Serbs are the enemy of the United States to justify U.S. becoming an ally of Al Qaeda? Or they were only a decoy in a ploy to import the cancer of radical islamism into the heart of Europe?
Thanks for pulling WWII analogy,it seems you understand WWII well. Perhaps you could elaborate the strategic angle of U.S. influence into financing Hitler's rise to power in the 1930's and keeeping Hitler's war and economic machine powered and lubed before and during WWII (well documented how U.S. companies helped Hitler with knowhow and suply of strategic materials). Hitler became U.S. Enemy #1 only after December 6 1941. Europe was 2 years in war with Nazi Germany by then. Serbs were fighting Nazis for 6 months by then.
When U.S. entered WWII, Serbs helped U.S. war effort by running the largest rescue mission behind the enemy lines and saving 500 U.S. flyboys. As a thank you note, USAAF bombed Belgrade on Easter Sunday 1944 and killed thousands of Serbs. In subsequent bombings tens of thousands were killed. For some reason, Serbs were designated as U.S.enemies, even when directly helping U.S. war effort.
In final analysis, in the 20th Century, Serbs fought against two enemies previously aided and abetted by the United States, Hitler and Al Qaeda.
Serbs waged the war against islamic terror since 1992. Was that the reason why Serbs as a people were singled out as U.S. enemy?
ALWAYS REMEMBER AND NEVER FORGET - CLINTON'S SUPPORT TO AL QAEDA IN BOSNIA MADE 9-11 POSSIBLE!
1. We have literally turned over the Balkans to Osama bin Laden's KLA terrorists, and that is the final result of our intervention.
2. The Serbs lost the PR war. The bottom line is that Saudi Arabia, the real culprit in this civil war, wanted the first Islamic state in the belly of Europe and the U.S. wanted Saudi oil and money. The Saudis' had signed a letter of intent to buy $6 billion worth of Boeing aircraft. The day AFTER we bombed the Bosnian Serbs, based on a staged self-inflicted massacre by Bosnian Muslim forces in Sarajevo at the Markale market place. A coincidence? I don't think so. The Bosnians and Croats were able to hire the best PR companies in the U.S., among them Ruder & Finn. It is my guess that since they didn't have the money to hire such an expensive PR, it was the Saudis who financed them. As for the Serbs, because of sanctions, they were not permitted to hire any PR firm in the United States.
The reports about Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo were and continue to be completely controlled by the anti-Serb media. News like the machine-gunning of three Serb youths while they were swimming, would have been on the news throughout the country. The recent atrocities in Kosovo of Serbs barely makes the news, especially in any of the major media that couldn't wait to put out their propaganda against the Serbs.
Surely, Goebbels would be envious today of the role the media played in the outcome in the Balkans.
Today's map of the Balkans is almost identical to that envisioned by Hitler.
President Bush said that "we will do whatever it takes to fight the terrorists." Notice, "Islamic terrorists," is no longer used. Politically incorrect.
Why, then, were the Serbs denied the right to defend themselves against the same terrorists that President Bush and our allies are fighting today?
"The reports about Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo were and continue to be completely controlled by the anti-Serb media. News like the machine-gunning of three Serb youths while they were swimming, would have been on the news throughout the country had they been ALBANIAN OR BOSNIAN youths. The recent atrocities in Kosovo of Serbs barely makes the news, especially in any of the major media that couldn't wait to put out their propaganda against the Serbs."
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