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7. Oh please. The Serbs were slaughtering the Bosnians & others. Force was the only option.

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 09:29 PM

Mar 2016

The EU was doing little but talk, and the US stepped up and put a stop to it. And stopped the same thing from happening in Kosovo.
The UN passed numerous votes on stopping them. Remember Srebrenica? The Serbs killed 8000 civilians in just that one town.
Ask those people if they think NATO overstepped their bounds

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Thousands in Serbia March Against NATO and the West [View all] Purveyor Mar 2016 OP

somehow I told you so just doesn't have the same ring to it :( PatrynXX Mar 2016 #1

Imagine a country where Donald Trump would have approval ratings in the 80% range. cheapdate Mar 2016 #2

Of course. Igel Mar 2016 #3

Interesting post. Out of curiousity, what is the etymology of 'cetnik'? Is that a Russian term? xocet Mar 2016 #12

Since NATO stopped their genocide, this is no surprise. They're still pissed. 7962 Mar 2016 #4

NATO did not stop genocide. It actually hastened the ethnic cleansing. SunSeeker Mar 2016 #6

Oh please. The Serbs were slaughtering the Bosnians & others. Force was the only option. 7962 Mar 2016 #7

Everyone was slaughtering everyone. It was a civil war. SunSeeker Mar 2016 #8

You love revisionist history. The UN is generally useless until the US gets involved. 7962 Mar 2016 #10

Yes, that is why the Gypsy and Hungarians were all running to Serbia during the Civil War happyslug Mar 2016 #13

You don't know Balkan history. Everyone perpetrated horrors. SunSeeker Mar 2016 #16

yes, yes, poor Slobo Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic, victims of history. nt geek tragedy Mar 2016 #17

The NATO bombings did not kill those two. The victims were the civilians we hit. SunSeeker Mar 2016 #18

You're portraying Serbia as the victim--it was the aggressor nt geek tragedy Mar 2016 #19

It was a civil war started by the rebel states seeking to secede SunSeeker Mar 2016 #20

you're pushing a categorically false narrative geek tragedy Mar 2016 #21

I'm stating facts. SunSeeker Mar 2016 #22

Serbia will be allowed into the EU system when Russia is 'allowed' in. Sunlei Mar 2016 #5

Odd thing is... Xolodno Mar 2016 #9

Yes Putin is just a cuddly little teddy bear. yellowcanine Mar 2016 #23

Fuck them. Odin2005 Mar 2016 #11

Go ahead & tell us how you REALLY feel!! nt 7962 Mar 2016 #15

Fans of Slobo and Putin still a bunch of bitter assholes nt geek tragedy Mar 2016 #14