Juanita,
Same goes for me. I actually see both sides of
the situation. I feel sorry for both the Muslims
(Albanians) and the Orthodox Christians (Serbs).
My own family was "ethnically cleansed" in recent
history. They were Mormons and because the local
population in Navoo Illinois hated their religion
and their leaders, they burned their houses. My
ancestors were told "Leave or burn in your house".
They left, many of them in the middle of the night
with nothing but their clothes on their backs. The
leader of the church, Joseph Smith, was lynched
from prison and shot by a mob. The church leaders
debated following the Menonites into Mexico where
they would be safe from the American ethnic cleansers,
but then the Mexican-American war broke out in 1846
and the Mormons fled west to the territory of Utah.
Anyway, I think that the best thing to do with the
Balkans is leave it be. Our intervention seems to
be having the effect of making things worse all around,
just as our intervention in Viet Nam simply spread the
carnage. Yesterday, a vote in Congress fell only a
little short that would have pulled our troops out.
A confidence vote on NATO action was split; 213-213.
It seems to me that there is little support for Bill
Clinton's intervention in a civil war that has been
going on for over six centuries.
-John |
