Ah, you and Barry, never met a person you couldn't hate.
Matter of perspective.
To you, reading the American press and watching the Clinton News Network, Milosovic is a "stone cold sonofabitch."
To the Serbs who were ethnically cleansed out of Kosovo by the Albanians over the past twenty years, he's a hero finally turning the tables and giving back to the Albanian Kosovans what they meted out without world objection over many years.
To most of the world outside the U.S., he's a leader who was used by the U.S. to help resolve the Bosnian crisis when it suited their purposes, but who overstepped his response to an armed force trying to destabilize his country and took the unaccepable step of too violently attacking the civilian population supporting the terrorists. And who has seriously overreacted to the illegal Nato bombing campaign and turned the stomachs of even those people who would try to be his friends.
Despite the slogans, the world still doesn't believe that "all's fair in love and war."
But he is still a leader of intelligence and skill, and probably more moderate than any leader who would succeed him if our "non-targeting" of him by bombing his private homes manages to kill him in violation of U.S. law (and to the serious danger of our president, who would then be seen as fair game by a variety of not very nice people.) He is still someone we need to negotiate with if this "humanitarian mission" is ever to end. Like him or not, he's still the leader of his country, and like it or not, he has the support of his people, now more than ever.
Maybe you can figure out how namecalling will help resolve this problem. I can't. (Or maybe you don't want the problem solved. It sure makes for good ratings for your beloved CNN.)
[Noting that Clinton would be fair game if we kill Milosovic brings up an idea. If we can't trade prisoners, let's trade leaders. We'll trade Clinton and Milosovic even up. The only losers are the British, who would probably insist in throwing Blair into the mix.] |
