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To: Skenderbej

And what do you get in the US & the Western press?

“Albanian Are Good
Serbs are Evil
Get It, Got It, You Betcha”

There is NO straight story anymore, anywhere, Skenderbej — including here. Medias just tell the people of an area what they want to hear. We want to hear that we were justified in bombing Serbia — Serbs want to hear that it was a completely unjust action. There is no objectivity anywhere in the press.

A better question would be, “Was the 1999 NATO worth it to us as Americans?”

And my answer both as an American and as someone with old roots in that part of the world, is “NO!” We solved absolutely nothing and caused greater political problems for ourselves that we as Americans didn’t need. We backed the wrong side, not because they are “Albanians”, but rather because they were insurgents trying to steal a piece of another country’s territory against all international law, violating its sovereignty. And we spit on that international concept of sovereignty with the attitude of “We’re America and can do whatever we want, including redrawing borders.” That didn’t increase our respect with anyone over there, most people in Eastern Europe were simply horrified by our actions.

And how much US time, money and political energy has been spent on the NATO Bombing, “Kosovo nation-building”, and Kosovo “diplomacy” ego-trip over the last ten years? $$$$BIllions! And what have we got out of it? Nothing. Kosovo is still a black hole, with no sign of its appetite for our money & energy letting up. Ten years later the human rights problems in Kosovo are even worse than they were before the bombing, only reversed — now it’s Serbs who are an endangered species in Kosovo.

Kosovo was — and is — a tragic waste of our time, money and reputation in the world. And our involvement should have never happened. Balkan politics need to stay in the Balkans, because every outside force who has tried to come in there run roughshod over it — from the Ottoman Turks & Austro-Hungary to Germany (twice) — has sooner or later gotten its ass kicked, on a world-scale, as a direct result of that involvement. It’s not worth it.


15 posted on 03/24/2009 9:35:40 AM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe
The ability to do whatever we want is part of what makes us sovereign. No "international law" or anyone else can stop us because we are sovereign.

If we choose to protect the sovereignty of an ally, we do so because it is in our own interest, not because it is our job as the world's policeman to enforce so-called "international law."

In fact there are some good unintended consequences that came out of US actions. NATO and the cursed United Nations Organization have been set at odds and the spurious concept of "international law" has been dealt a devastating blow.

17 posted on 03/24/2009 1:35:16 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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