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What gives us the right to kill Serbians?
We're morally superior? We're a superpower and we can kill whoever we
want. Serbian lives are worth less than American/NATO lives? The end
(getting rid of Milosevic) justifies the means (the murder of civilians)?
OK....We're bombing for reasons based on geopolitik. Milosevic is a loose
cannon...a potential bad boy who will make problems for all of our
"allies" in the area. So, the way to handle Milosevic is to establish a
military presence in the Balkans. We'll be the cop on the beat keeping
everyone from slaughtering one another. And just to make sure that
everyone behaves...we'll arm everyone to the teeth....back one side (the
Albanian "freedom fighters") rather than the wicked Serbs. Great. Sounds
like a winning policy!!!
I know this might seem like an absurd idea....but why don't we stay out of
it and mind our own damned business. Why is it in America's longterm
interests to play policeman in the Balkans?
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Ric Carter wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: William Hugh Tunstall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Yugoslav war. His stated reason was that Milosevic was a tyrant and
> > presented a threat to the stability of Europe. But I found it odd that a
> > champion of "liberty" would be supporting the indiscriminate bombing of
> > civilian targets and what has to be a destabilization of central Europe
> > for years to come. But why exactly must Yugoslavia be crushed by NATO and
> > the US-EU alliance? I don't think it has anything to do with concern
> > for Milosevic's atrocities. We're not particularly concerned about
> > authoritarian regimes in other parts of the world... so, why Yugoslavia?
>
> Let's see, a dozen or so civilian hits [bridges, hospitals, houses etc]
> out of the tens of thousands of sorties flown, is "indiscriminate bombing
> of civilian targets"?? If the intention was to target civilians, then
> NATO has really fucked up, eh? I mean, if *I* wanted to bomb civilians,
> I'd make sure every Serb town was just a smoking pile of rubble by now.
> NATO could re-create the Dresden fire-bombing pretty easily, with Beograd
> as the cinder. Has that happened yet?
>
> Why Yugoslavia, and not similar [or worse] genocides around the world?
> How about: because Yugoslavia is in Europe; because Yugoslavia is where
> the World War of this century started [phase II was just a continuation
> of phase I, after re-arming]; because Yugoslav disorders threaten to
> suck-in the surrounding countries: Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania,
> Russia, Hungary, Austria, Italy? Could these be valid factors?
>
> I think bombing for democracy, killing for peace, is like fucking for
> virginity. I think the NATO campaign has been a major fuck-up. The
> Serb regime fronted by Milosevic should have been taken out years ago,
> by other means. The oligarchs that support him should have had their
> foreign accounts frozen, their foreign properties seized. The regime
> should have been destabilized and discredited, like the op against
> Allende in Chile. Much could have been done, short of taking military
> action. By being forced into a position where bombing was the only
> seeming option, NATO strategists were especially stupid. Which just
> goes to show that a committee has 19 heads and no brains, eh? If
> there's an anti-Serb conspiracy, it's pretty incompetent.
>
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