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Sorry to clutter this thread up with non-INTC stuff, but, this post has some many factual errors that it needs to be replied to...
Gerald, you said:
<Also, it would seem that when Europeans kill each other with guns because of ethnic differences we're morally obligated to get involved but when Africans kill each other with machetes for the exact same reasons we can turn a blind eye. <
You mean like the time we didn't try to help in Somalia????? Or maybe we were there...maybe Americans got killed their...that was Africa, right?
<This is one reason why the pre-Civil War United States had only a standing Navy <
In 1860 the U.S. Army contained approximately 20,000 "regular" soldiers. Many of the officers were from the south and resigned from the U.S. army to join the CSA. This was a "standing" army.
If you happened to watch 60 minutes last night, you saw a story about 8,000 Bosnian moslems who were murdered by the Serbian military and the Dutch troops who were sent to guard them and then stood by while they were taken away and killed.
It was the fact that this type of thing really did occur that led NATO and the U.S. to finally do something in the hope that it would be able to mitigate the killing in Kosovo.
Did it work the way everyone hoped? No, the Serbs didn't roll over and say "OK, we'll be good". That's the way things are sometimes. The fact is, the Serbian gov't and army have a record of mass murder, rape, pillage and destruction directed against non-Serbian peoples in the former Yugoslavia. |
