In a message dated 8/15/00 8:46:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
neptune@mars.superlink.net writes:
<< wo, the Kosovar refugee problem starting only after the bombs began
dropping. Recall, the "genocide" that took place in Kosovo totalled under
60 deaths. Granted, any death is bad, but this hardly smacks of genocide
and looks more like what the Serbians originally said, viz.,
counter-terrorism and police operations. (If you disagree, then remember
three things. First, Serbia, then and now, had the military might to kill a
lot more people. Second, why weren't there huge refugee movements before
the bombing began. Did the Kosovar Albanians only decide to start fleeing
when the bombs started to drop? Third, where is the evidence for
pre-bombing mass graves in Kosovo?)
>>
I am not sure I disagree with your premise, however, I see the response to
Kosovo really being a too little, too late, for Bosnia in 1992 where genocide
was undertaken by the Milosevic government and security forces. That was the
time to darken Belgrade with hig explosives. Our effort should have been
(then) to depose the Chetnik government. I am a big fan of Low Intensity
Warfare, or High Intensity-short duration warfare. Why? Because its costs
less lives and has the chance of removing dictatorships that cause mass
murder. These are no absolutes, and the morality is questionable; but so is
being a by-stander while the Gulag churns out corpses.
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