Where do your sympathies lie in Yugoslavia?

[anti-NAFTA]

I realize that many are Clark supporters and support the division and Bosnia/Albania. I myself was in support of Clinton's bombing campaign. But recently I have started to doubt whether Milosevic is actually guilty. After all, their evidence appears to be flimsy. Did Clinton lie to us?

Moreover I was visiting a Serbian Nationalist website that had some pretty nasty pictures of Bosnio-Croat collaboration torture pictures from the wars. Pretty nasty stuff.

view at your own discretion: http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/gallery.html


Note: if the website is inappropriate due to the violent content, I will gladly edit my post.

[madrchsod]

1. no

no- bush the lesser, decided not to do anything about Milo because there was no strategic value and they wanted Saddam. as with Somalia, bush the lesser left these problems to the Clinton Whitehouse. Milo and his henchmen participated in war crimes,there is no doubt about this.
the dead speak from their graves

[MAlibdem]

2. Everyone was committing war crimes

Such is a genocidal free-for-all, when one group that is routinely oppressed gains power in a region, they react to their new power in bad ways.

[AZCat]

3. I read "Love Thy Neighbor" by Peter Maass this fall...

And while Maass is not unbiased about his experience in Bosnia, he does NOT paint a pretty picture of Milosevic. He interviewed him at one point and talks about that in the book. It's a good-- but grim-- read.

[TexasMexican]

4. I think we were right to take action.

Milosevich and others like him deserve to be punished, I'm only disappointed that he wont be facing the death penalty.

[bleedingheart]

5. You mean Serbia's attempt to hold on to the idea of Yugoslavia?

While admirable, the idea of Yugoslavia was doomed from the beginning and the problems that erupted after Tito died had been there all along but had been kept under control using force.

I recall during the Bosnian campaign that there was this Serbian Nationalist who was bringing up battles fought over 500 years ago and how Serbia wanted its land back... which goes to show you how wacko the entire region is.

My father's family came from Croatia before Yugoslavia ever existed and I can tell you that there is a deep rooted hatred between the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians...etc. Differences in language, religion, and culture still create problems here. In fact a Croatian/Serbian dance group in our town could no longer dance together because second and third generation Serbs and Croats were screaming at one another...

So do I think Clinton lied...no because I know that they are all capable of atrocities against one another

In fact I think its a good thing that the UN is still babysitting that region.

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