nuke44 -
You say a lot I disagree with. Easy enough, since I have no strong political position on the Kosovo issue except to insist that it's much more complex than first appears and in no way a black and white situation. But your statements below are, I think, valid considerations. At the same time, my own conclusions, if ever found, are certainly also tempered by the lifelong guilt I've felt over our not stopping the holocaust.
But Christopher is making some important points about following laws if we are going to make them. And I am not very comfortable about the picture of future bedfellows forming in my mind. So I just continue to read and to focus on the children suffering, whether they be frightened, innocent Serbian children in bomb shelters or hungry, displaced Albanian children who may well have witnessed the murders of their fathers.
Quoting you and important points:
>>Is there anyone else here that is unaware of Greece's ties to the ethnic Serbs and their motives for not supporting NATO actions against Serbia? Is anyone else here not aware that one of the most critical mission's of NATO over the past fifty years following their mission to stand against the Warsaw Pact was to keep Greece and Turkey from going
to all out war against each other? Is their anyone else here that is unaware that the war(s) in the former Yugoslavia were moving inexorably towards involving Greece in a conflict in Macedonia and possibly Albania? Is anyone else unaware that any actions on the part of Greece that could be remotely interpreted as hostile to the Muslims in those areas left over from Turkey's Ottoman Empire would be the impetus to set Greece and Turkey back at war?<<
This whole thing is very, very complicated. I'm amazed how many people are so certain they are a hundred percent right. We can't even at this point be certain upon whom to rely for totally accurate information. I learned many years ago through a relationship with Central America that grew quite deep and intimate that what you read in the papers and see on television is completely able to be total lies.
I don't know yet. Personal feelings always enter in; I am of Greek origin and love both the country and people of Greece. But while I don't know, 3 and 4 year olds are dying, and NO ONE has yet to make a case for that being right.
Raven |
