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To: Whitebeard who wrote (261097)8/10/2008 2:05:36 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 794050
 
Things aren't that simple in the Balkans, I think.

Personally, I'm not so sure the Albanian and Bosnian Muslims are our enemies. They seem to be very liberal Muslims and I don't think it does us any good to treat all Muslims, especially liberal Muslims not hostile to us, as our enemies.

As for the Serbs and the positive vs negative reporting. The mass executions of civilians didn't help their cause.

news.bbc.co.uk

boston.com

reuters.com

The United States said today that it had spy photographs that it planned to make public of what appears to be a mass grave outside the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where thousands of Muslim men and boys have been missing since they were rounded up after Bosnian Serbs seized the area last month.
query.nytimes.com

I know that the hands of all sides were guilty and all sides were victimized in the former Yugoslavia, but the Serbs seem to have been the most active at mass killing and after the short war against Serbia organized violence in the former Yugoslavia seems to have been suppressed.



To: Whitebeard who wrote (261097)8/10/2008 2:51:50 PM
From: Geoff Altman  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 794050
 
Clinton picked the wrong side and the MSM backed him up.

I disagree. The Saudi's have made attempts at radicalizing Bosnian Muslims by sending Wahabi clerics to Bosnia and they were thoroughly rejected by the Bosnians. This is one of Clintons better decisions IMO.