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To: Dan3 who wrote (55522)	9/16/2001 5:02:45 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

Dan, I think there is a big difference between the Bosnian Serbs, who were basically a rogue group, and the state of Serbia and it's army, which exercised great amount of restraint by not starting a full scale war on behalf of Bosnian Serbs, or against Croatia, when the regular Croatian army started the offensive inside Bosnia and routed Bosnian Serbs. The same is true when Croatia did their "ethnic clensing" by taking over the territory called Krajina (or something like that) which is the South-Eastern tip of territory of Croatia, with had substantial % of Serbian population. The initial total of a little over 2,000 for the Kosovo region looks much lower than at first feared. Would it have stayed that way if the US hadn't intervened, at first politically and later militarily? The problem is that our state department was so completely clueless that they put us unnecessarily on a war path with their ignorant ultimatums, and they were so close minded, that whatever decisions they made was done basically with one-sided information. If you asked me about Milosevich (sp?) he is a very reprehensible guy, but compared to KLA terrorists with supporters like Bin Laden, even Milosovich starts to look almost like a good guy. What Milosovich did in the mountains of Kosovo will be basically no different from what we will most likely do in Afganistan, the enemy is more or less the same, the tactics will most likely be the same. This was the situation on the ground at the time US intervened. The Serbian army and police was making great progress against KLA terrorists. The whole refugee situation and mass exodus started after the US bombing started. Prior to that, it was just an ordinary guerrilla war in which the US did not have much interest in. If you follow the news from the region, the US and European forces in the region are now doing exactly the same thing what Serbian army did before the war (but much less effectively) - they are trying to contain KLA fanatics from exporting the conflict into other regions, like Macedonia, and they are trying to stop cross border attacks into Serbia. Joe