If we must go to war, let's not go Dutch

The Guardian ^ | April 24 2002 | Ian Buruma

[crystalk]

God please continue to bless and strengthen heroic Slobodan Milsevic, and Serbian people everywhere, that Kosovo not be permanently lost.

Albanians must be made to pay for all that they have done, including obtaining help from evil Americans Madeline Albright, Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Serbia lives, Serbia is not dead yet.

[McGavin999]

A rare crystal clarity and emerges from the muck of the Guardian, how odd.

I loved the bit about everyone calling the Americans "cowboys" when we answer their call for help.

[AdA$tra]

Heineken?

Hashish?

[bjcintennessee]

I am adamantly opposed to our military ever taking orders from the UN. But then, I am adamantly against the UN.

Unlike the debacle in Viet Nam, the U.S.'s military leaders today have an over-all plan before sending our troops anywhere. Those plans include the needed support to complete their objective with a minimum of loss of life to our troops. Those plans also include an exit strategy that attempts to avoid protracted presence once the objective has been accomplished.

The UN doesn't have a clue, or a plan, and could care less about the welfare of their "peace-keepers" (unless they are Arab). The Dutch got a raw deal, as the UN didn't send them in with sufficient force or back-up to attain the goal they had been given.

It is the UN that should withdraw from the field, or at least offer an apology!!

[knighthawk]

Social security after one gets unemployed. 'Bijstand' is when one never had a job and gets social security.

[knighthawk]

The thing is that the cabinet should have regined earlier. They tried to avoid the matter by stalling the reports as long as possible.

[knighthawk]

Thanks. And indeed the article is almost completly un-Guardian like.