It’s true that Yugoslavia was artificial creation, but it didn’t serverd Soviet interests. Yugoslavia was founder of Non-Aligned movement in 1960, and Tito ( Yugoslavia leader in that time) confronted with Stalin and USSR. So Yugoslavia was always between East and West.

“I’ve written more words on US policy than I can readily count, and most of them have been highly ciritcal of our foreign policy throughout the course of the last century especially. So much of what we’re having to deal with today is the result of mistakes we made decades ago.”

I am glad I hear that. Sorry if I offended you – I didn’t mean to ( I got a wrong expression by reading some of your comments ). And I ‘m well informed about whole Balkan region because I live there.

BTW, what nation are you from? Your IP indicates Australia? Wait a minute – isn’t that the place where John Howard was running loose up until last year?

Hmmm. Remind me again, if you can see all the way down here from way up on your high horse, what role Howard (which is to say, all you Ozzies) played in enabling George Bush.

Thanks.

I don’t believe I said that the US didn’t support the breakup of Yugoslavia. Clearly that’s something we supported. But our support was hardly the impetus or the only or even the main cause of the breakup. Yugoslavia was not a historical nation, it was a concocted state that served Soviet interests and its existence (given all the ancient rivalries that were being forced together) was always uneasy.

I read somewhere that you could trace the spread of imperialism by counting up colonies. America’s version of the colony is the military base, and today America has about 1,000 military bases all around the world. You get the point ?!

Again, you’d do well to assume less about what I think and read more of what I have written. My opinions are hardly secret – I’ve written more words on US policy than I can readily count, and most of them have been highly ciritcal of our foreign policy throughout the course of the last century especially. So much of what we’re having to deal with today is the result of mistakes we made decades ago.

I love conversations with smart people who disagree with me – that’s where learning and perspective come from. But I’ve never been really big on being lectured at by people who know little but assume a lot.

So stick your attitude back in the holster and do a little research – if you’re going to come at me, you need to do so from an informed position. I’ve posted over 400 articles since starting S&R. Go for it.

1. US did supported brake up of Yugoslavia. In 1998. and 1999. US was supporting terrorists on Kosovo (know as UCK or KLA). There are proofs that US gave them weapons and trained them to fight against legal Serbian forces on Kosovo ( you must know that KLA is well know criminal organization involved in drug dealing and human trafficking in Europe). Hashim Thaci, Kosovo’s current Prime Minister, was formerly the political head of the KLA, and now mafia and US controls the Kosovo.
In those days US wasn’t talking about Yugoslavian territorial integrity (which was a member of UN) but supported separatists and terrorists. Why doesn’t US support South Ossetia and Abkhazia nowadays ? Just because it’s not in their interest. US is using double standards.
Now Kosovo is US satellite where they created one of biggest military bases in Europe (Bondsteel). The main purpose for the Bondsteel military base is to provide security for the construction of the Albanian-Macedonian-Bulgarian oil pipeline. So it’s clear that US didn’t care about Albanians. This was just a part of a plan for US to control Caspian see and oil.
2. US did support Croatia in 1995. The end result was US participation in an unprecedented act of ethnic cleansing, resulting in a quarter of a million Serbs fleeing from their homes. Croatian soldiers had been trained at Fort Irwin, California, and additional training assistance came from a private company of mercenaries, the American Military Professional Resources Incorporated (MPRI)

I hope that now you see the role of US in breaking Yugoslavia.

I read somewhere that you could trace the spread of imperialism by counting up colonies. America’s version of the colony is the military base, and today America has about 1,000 military bases all around the world. You get the point ?!

whythawk -> No need for that kind of vocabulary (but fuck u 2)

Then why Polands feel safe from Russians after signing rocket shield deal with US ??? if it’s not there for Russians and can’t save them from Russia nuclear attack ???

Dr. Slammy – > You’re also CNN clone.

And you, apparently, are on crack. I appreciate commenters who have differing opinions, but you have an obligation to know a little about me before you start whipping out stuff that’s this ludicrous. So go back and re-read more of my posts, and pay particular attention to the places where I blast the crap out of … CNN.

You must read more and understand that ‘war on terror’ is another White house & CNN buzzword that is used by US to attack any country that confront them. I don’t blame you, because Western Media is doing great job in keeping people dumb and uninformed of reality.

Thank you for patronizing. Again, you might go back and actually read what I’ve had to say on the subject. That you regard me as some kind of flag-waving apologist for the very policies I’ve spent thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of words indicting tells us what we need to know about your credibility.

1. Russia has well over 5,000 nuclear missiles.
2. The US is placing a grand total of 10 interceptor rockets in Poland
3. The interceptors have no explosives in them, but do their work by simply smashing in to any oncoming missile and destroying them via kinetic energy
4. The closing speed of an oncoming missile and the interceptor is some 24,000 km/hr – i.e. they would cover the distance between Poland to Iran in a little over 7 minutes; this has been described as being like trying to stop a bullet with another bullet – it’s difficult.
5. In other words, the interceptor must be targeted and fired well within 7 minutes in order to respond and hit the missile high enough so that it doesn’t cause any collateral damage on the ground.
6. The situation of the interceptors – THEREFORE – has to be sufficiently far to give the interceptors enough time to respond, and sufficiently close in order to do any good … that spot happens to be POLAND.
7. There are only 10 interceptors, more than sufficient to cope with Iran, but hopeless for stopping anything coming out of Russia.
8. So all the noise from Russia about this being aimed at them is so much sword-rattling bullshit.

And last, but not least, go fuck yourself.

Now we (not pro-USA oriented) can hope that Russia will install nuclear weapons in Syria, Cuba and Iran, so money hungry US officers wouldn’t realize their evil dream.

For The Free World!

What US is doing last years is the same that Germany was doing before WWII, just in more sophisticated way.

I pray the GOD for Russia, China and India to unite against US imperialism.(and nowadays EU is nothing more that US satellite )

And if I recall my history, the US didn’t exactly invent the dynamics that tore the artificial construct that was Yugoslavia apart.

There’s plenty of actual evidence for you to use here. You don’t help yourself by over-reaching.

Der Spiegel

Another day of dead and wounded Georgians:
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I’m not emotional about the issue…it’s just another war. What i was emotional about is coming to S&R to read an extraordinarily slanted post full of unbacked assertions, historical omissions, and manipulations of fact.

Why are you trying to justify it by blaming those not party to the fighting? Considering the fact that US taxpayer funds purchased a great many of the Georgian munitions being used and at least one US citizen has already been captured by Russia and George W. Bush has called Georgia “a beacon of democracy”, i’m not sure whether the statement should be filed under omission or manipulation. Does it not matter that a good amount of evidence points to US involvement in the toppling of Georgia’s previous government and the installation of the current government?

Certainly, Russia and China have blocked UN Security Council resolutions that should have been passed, but to paint them as bad guys for doing it is way off base. How many Security Council resolutions concerning Israel has the US vetoed? Which is a bigger geo-political mess: Zimbabwe or the Middle East?

The above is my biggest problem with this post. It leads the uniformed reader to see the bad of what others do, when, in fact, that evil is the same thing that we do day in and day out. And that is the rhetorical style of Bill Kristol. It is much the same as clamoring for war with Iraq because they possess weapons that make them a threat, without mentioning who gave them the weapons.

If the real point of the post was to exemplify just how bad war is and how all sides in war are wrong, it was lost in all the words describing how bad one side of this is without even bothering to mention the other sides and the complexity of the issue (and all the other issues that are related).

http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=23408&t=1&c=35&cg=4&mset=1011

http://www.finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17934&Itemid=1

http://www.messenger.com.ge/issues/1667_august_11_2008/1667_un.html

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3552269,00.html

yikes, I was going to give you a few other links but blogger is being a pain in the you know where… at any rate…looks like you got a few links to show that Russia is not necessarily ‘the bad guy’ as is painted… of course, they ‘are’ attacking’ but don’t leave the mess of Georgia out..

Ingrid

Clearly, you feel strongly about this issue. If you feel up to it, would you please write something that isn’t full of personal attacks. I love learning things and I love new information, but I can’t learn anything from what you wrote. It’s way too emotional and, being so, I have no way to evaluate the assertions. In addition, very little is backed up.