Dan Minette wrote:
>
> While I agree that Iraq was a mistake, because the US wasn't
> prepared to deal with the peace afterwards, that's really not a fair
> description of US foreign policy over the last 15 years. Let's look
> at a better intervention, in the Balkins. The UN specifically
> ordered its troops to step aside and allow genocide. The US
> violated international law by acting and stopping genocide. Its
> true that NATO finally went along with the US, but that's because
> the mess was in Europe...and they were totally unable to handle it.
> Are you arguing that Clinton was morally oblidged to accept the UN's
> ruling that the genocide must continue?
>
I have a more cynical take on the Balkan case. I think the only reason
was that the intervention favoured the muslim side of the War. I
imagine that now that the albanese are happyly exterminating the
serbian minority of Kosovo nobody would jump to save the serbians.
Alberto Monteiro
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