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To: Joe NYC who wrote (193548)	7/8/2004 3:06:54 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575450

Yugoslovia........which was breaking up after Tito died. Serbia was attacking its neighbors including Kosovo and committing atrocities. Kosovo was nobody's neighbor. It was a province of Serbian Republic. Yugoslavia broke apard based on the borders of the republics that comprised federation of Yugoslavia. That was the initial splintering in 1980......since then its gotten much worse. Further splintering has ensued. Now Montenegro is voting in 2006 on whether it wants to split from Serbia. Its likely that Kosovo will splinter from Serbia as well. I would not be surprised if it rejoins Albania. After all, as late as 1911, Kosovo was still part of Albania. In 1912, it was forced to join Serbia. encarta.msn.com Besides, Kosovo is 90% Muslim while the rest of Serbia is mostly Christian. As far as atrocities, the secessionist Kosovo turned from non-violent means to violent guerilla war, supported by you our favorite Wahabi, who on the days off, when not plotting to murder Americans, was helping the KLA guerillas. Serbian military responded in kind. I can't believe how so many people (including some on the right) can get this so wrong. We faught on the side of Al-Qaeda in Kosovo. It doesn't matter how distasteful the Al-Qaeda opponent is (as it was the case with Milosovic), he is always more appealing than Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda. What is your evidence that al Qa'ida is active in Kosovo? Do you have definitive proof? I know there were allegations but I did know they had been proven. Milosevic was a cruel dictator who was bent on keeping the breakup from happening. A cruel dictator? Hmmm... I have not heard you say this about Saddam for a while... Milosovic was a distasteful character, I agree, but he won a democratic election to become president (which some people dispute that it had irregularities) and the way he was removed power was by losing the next election. What does Saddam have to do with this issue? Read the article from the right's favorite magazine..... I can't access it. Excuse me, YOU don't have a membership to NRO? Does GOP headquarters know about this oversight? ;~) Agreed and they were not threatening those countries who neighbor it and with whom we have alliances. Agreed, on Iraq (with minor disagreement on Iraq threatening Israel). But none of our allies were threatened by Serbia. Are you saying the instability in the region caused by the problems in Yugoslavia was having no impact on Greece and Italy, two of our European allies?