Starting from around 1990, I knew less than nothing about Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, or Albanians, or who the good and bad guys might be in the Balkans. The question people were asking was, assuming even that the obvous propaganda we were reading were factual and moslem women WERE moving on conveyer belts in Serbian rape factories, was it worth it? Was whatever Slick KKKlinton and Madeline Albright werer doing over there worth sacraficing the possibility of a new relationship with Russia over? I mean, to me it wasn't, but that may have been just me.
When the thing with Kosovo started to boil over in 98 and 99, the internet age was upon us and I made it my business to find out everything I could about the Balkans, and what I found out was substantially at odds with most of what we read. There were people from all of the surrounding territories and countries on usenet vouching for the character of the Serbs, and referring to the Albanian Kosovars as savages. Basically, you had something like 26 ethnic groups in the Yugoslav federation and only three had ever had any serious problems getting along with Serbs, and those three were the three which had most ardently sided with Hitler and the nazis in WW-II, i.e. Croats, Albanians, and Bosnians.
Moreover it turned out that pretty much all of the supposed atrocities which were being used to justify NATO actions were garbage. The worst case was Trnopolja. The question ANYBODY would ask is, after Trnopolja, which part of this bullshit are we supposed to go on believing?
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/judgment2.html
The so-called "RACAK Massacre" which was supposed to be the caussus belli for the NATO action in 1999 also turned out to be garbage:
http://agitprop.org.au/stopnato/19990509exilewalker.php
In fact, it turns out that the entire case against Serbia was never anything but a bunch of bullshit. In fact, in Kosovo in 1998 and 99, there was never any "ethnic cleansing" going on,
http://www.iraqwar.org/germanreport.htm
and
there was never anything remotely like genocide going on.
http://www.counterpunch.org/biglie.html
The most recent problems in Kosovo began with Miloshevic rescinding the autonomy of the region in 1989.
Basically, e had to. Every other group of people in the province was being brutalized by
the Albanians:
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/ddj/Kosovo/articles/Binder87NYT.htm
Further readings and articles from the 80's tell much the same story:
http://members.tripod.com/~sarant_2/ksm.html
These are New York Times reports and not Serbian propaganda.
The complaint I read from several people in Hungary, Macedonia, and other surrounding lands at the time regarding the Albanians was that they engaged in a policy of ensconsing themselves in little corners of other people's countries, do their super breeding thing for fifteen or twenty years until they become a majority in the little corner, and then try to break the little corners of the other guy's country off into their "Greater Albania".
In a tight little part of the world in which land is always going to be a zero sum game, Albanians average something like ten or twelve children per family. Other people in the region call what they do "rabbit breeding their way to power". Albanians refer to it as "the power of the penis":
http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/apr04/hed6362.shtml
Quote:
British MP's criticize Western policy in Kosovo
The following text is an excerpt from a speech made by Tam Dalyell British MP and long-term opponent of war-policy of PM Blair (though he is in the same party) and following that is an excerpt of the speech from Mrs. Alice Mahon British MP who has devoted huge energy to publicising the plight of Serbs:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/cm040325/debtext/40325-25.htm
Mr. Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow) (Lab)
I shall simply relate a personal experience, and I hope to be forgiven for crudity. I went to stay for four days in Kosovo with my national service regiment, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, which was on duty there. In the presence of the then colonel, David Allfrey, and the then second in command, now colonel of the regiment, Ben Edwards, I was able to talk at length with some of the local Albanian leaders. I would not have had that conversation had not the guns of the British Army been behind me, because they were pretty rough customers. They were truculent, saying, to put it crudely,
Basically what I get from reading is that Slick KKKlinton and Mad Dog Albright basically bombed a totally innocent Christian nation into the stone age for eighty days and nights including Easter Sunday, for the benefit of a bunch of narco-terrorists and white trash and a political organization (KLA) which was and is basically a branch of AlQuaeda, and to take that Juanita Broaddrick rape allegation and Chinagate off the front pages of American newspapers.
