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Originally Posted by tkdgirl
^^ Uh, it was Bill Clinton that got the US and the world involved in the Serb conflict, not Bush. Don't you remember the pics of Hillary and Chelsea over there with Sheryl Crow? UGH.
Bush is just a fool for recognizing their independence.
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Uh, we stood around and watched people be slaughtered in a three way war for four years before the UN/Nato got involved.
The war broke out in 1991. There was a genocide happening, women being gang raped, I remember quite well-
Nato went in in 1994, and Bill Clinton sent the US air strikes in on Aug 30, 1995 the war ended on September 15- two weeks of the US being there, and the war ended. Pretty good results. It was a quick precise military victory for the US, and it stopped the genocide.
Very similar to what is happening in Darfur right now. We needed to stop the violence then, just as we need to stop the violence in Darfur now.
Were the Balkan people not entitled to Nato/US protection, or protection by the world community because some of the ones being slaughtered were Muslim?
There are actually times when military intervention is owed to the innocent people being slaughtered. Some wars are right.
Bill Clinton has been out of office for 7 years, and the war in the Balkans has been over for 12 years. It's not right to lay Kosovo declaring thier independance now at Clinton's door. Bush has to recognize them, as
the UK, Germany and France had already recognized, and the rest of the EU would as well