I will agree with you that America is probably more vulnerable to attack right now than any time in recent memory, but not because of any weakness in our military strength. Agreed that stockpiles of certain weapon systems have been depleted below accepted levels for wartime readiness, but one of our strengths is that we don't depend on just one or two or even a half dozen weapon systems, but rather have redundant capabilities across the board, from our stand-off weapons to our delivery systems to communications and logistics. Our true weakness lies in our Commander in Chief and the lack of credibility he has with the rest of the world, particularly our potential enemies.
I also find myself in the peculiar position in agreeing that we may have gotten ourselves into a no-win situation in Kosovo that perhaps we never should have become involved with in the first place.
Having said that, I reject categorically your assertion that Serbian genocide and ethnic cleansing in Albania has all been an orchestration to discredit the Serbs and manipulate world opinion against them. That is simply not the case. If you subscribe to the theory of Ocham's razor, or "all things being equal, the simplest answer is usually correct", then you shouldn't have any problem recognizing that any course of action by the Serbs other than ethnically motivated genocide, would be a deviation from all historical precedents. For over a thousand years in the exact area of the Balkans where people are now dying and killing, standard operating procedure has been for the ethnic group in power to do it's damnedest to eradicate all other ethnic groups through whatever means possible. Usually the more ruthless and sanguinary the better. It has been proven that the Serbs revived this time honored tradition in both Croatia and Bosnia, while looking the rest of the world straight in the face and telling us that the mass graves in those countries, filled with thousands of victims of mass execution, were a figment of our imagination. When faced with the irrefutable proof of the extinction of entire towns and of mass graves, the Serbs just laughed and insisted that those deaths were either self-inflicted or the result of misadventure. The truth is, the anomaly would be if the Serbs weren't committing genocide in Kosovo.
If if walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. If it looks like genocide and smells like genocide, it's probably genocide. The machinations of the Serbian propaganda machine are laughable in their transparency.
So what do we do now? We can't very well use the alibi of most of the world following the revelation of Nazi atrocities in WWII of "We just didn't know". We do know. |
