On Wednesday, August 16, 2000 3:33 PM Spudweiser Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> << 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,
What premise is that?
> 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.
Problem one: Serbia was not the only side doing such things during the
Bosnian war. In fact, Croatia got off pretty clean given its actions then,
> Our
Who is this "our"? Were you there? Or where you at the Pentagon? The
White House? Perhaps the UN? I just want to get an idea of your
involvement in this process. My role in all of this has been as the
_unwilling_ source of funds for foreign adventurism.
> 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.
I'm a big critic of warfare in general, though I do allow for exceptions.
I'm not against anyone volunteering to go over there and fight as a private
soldier. I think the US government should stay out of it.
> 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.
The easiest way to remove a dictator: one bullet right through the brain.
That doesn't take a massed army. It doesn't take a concerted alliance
against him or her. Just one bullet from one gun. Game over.
I have to get back to making sure things happen, especially with a name
like,
Max Power
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
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