It took many years of cruel abuse at the hands of the Serb Police before the gentle
Kosovo Albanians were forced to stike back in self defense thru the KLA.
ROFLMAO
The gentle Albanians have, throughout history, been every bit as bloodthirsty as the Servs, the Slavs, the Croats, and all the other ethnic groups which have been warring in the Balkans since long before Columbus stumbled across America.
The gentle Albanians were doing their own form of ethnic cleansing on Kosovo for many years, driving out the Serbs from their own country. (If you've ever visited Albania, you know why Albanians kept moving to and settling in the rich valleys and mineral-filled mountains of Kosovo. Home was never this good.)
I understand why our government feels the need to demonize its perceived enemies and whitewash its perceived allies (even those it was very recently deeming to be terrorists) but I don't understand why YOU feel a need to do the same thing.
I don't know about you, but in my lifetime I have found very few people who are completely good or completely bad. I think when the history of this war is written we will conclude that there is plenty of good and bad on both (all) sides and plenty of blame to share all around, including on the U.S. and NATO.
BTW, your vaunted "free press" is beginning to realize that they got rooked over reporting that the Ramboullet was fair and reasonable and that Milosovic should have signed it, and are starting to realize that it was designed from the start to humiliate Milosovic and to be so unacceptable that we knew he wouldn't sign it.
As an aside, but we wonder what really happened at Ramboullet, it is now coming out (something our free press didn't discover or report at the time) that the entire complex where the Dayton Accord was hammered out was bugged by the CIA, and we could hear every word that the Serbs, Bosnians, etc. said to each other. Couple that with the revelation (again not discovered or reported by our vaunted free press) that the CIA was using the Iraq peacekeeping mission to spy on Iraq, and do you wonder that Milosovic doesn't trust the U.S. to be fair and honorable? It's because we ain't. Our government is every bit as treacherous, dishonest, and dishonorable as Milosovic's. And our "free press" is right there in bed with them.
Despite all that, I still love this country. I love its people, its spirit, its freedoms, the basic honesty of most citizens (very specifically excepting those now occupying the White House). I think we have a lot going for us. There is nowhere on Earth I would rather be. But that doesn't mean I can't recognize truth, and it doesn't mean that I have to lie about my country or pretend that we are perfect when we are far from it. |
