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To: darkside321
does this now make me one of those evil occupiers who just hates the serbs?) some years ago?

Let's put it this way.
I did seven years during Vietnam. 15 months in country and two 18 month tours off shore & closely involved. Had lots of issues with the "how" but never doubted the "why".
As I've said before in this forum; had I been in the Army when you were in the Army, and when some of my best service friends were involved as civilian contractors, and I'd received orders to where you went, I'd have refused and taken the CM that followed.
It's also pretty clear that you simply don't like Serbs very much. Those "little wars", and centuries of "little wars" in that region, weren't Serbian creations alone, that's why "Balkanization" translates to "an unstable collection of small states".
For practical purposes the Kosovo goat-roping was (a) Muslim versus Christian, (b) Former Nazi allies versus an imperfect state whose people rescued a pot load of downed allied fliers from those same Nazi allies, (c) the public and painful dissolution of an artificially united Yugoslavia, and (d) a "little war" that we, the USA and NATO, had no (bleeping) business getting into.
Your argument sounds more like resentment of non Serbian immigrants than an indictment of the Serbs.

So I guess the proper answer would be "maybe"...but that's up to you and those others who enabled Clinton, Germany, and (although you omitted them) Albania.

25 posted on 12/17/2010 11:22:08 AM PST by norton
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To: norton

You are correct the bombing of serbia was indeed a “European” idea! I never said something different.( btw there exists no regret here for doing this!)
Clinton was against this( at least it was no secret that he wanted the US to stay out)! But the europeans wanted to use nato for the bombing. So clinton was forced to agree on the bombing. This or Nato would have been dismanteled (Not a US interesst).
Just for example the first bombs dropped on Serbia where from spanish (not US) F16.
The bombing of serbia was definitely a war “EUROPE” wanted to be fought. I never said something different.


26 posted on 12/17/2010 11:38:19 AM PST by darkside321
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