ludahai said:
AFTER he was allowed to get away with ethnic cleansing in Western Slavonia, AFTER he was allowed to get away with ethnic cleansing in Bosnia (something that the negotiations leading to the Dayton Accords actually ENCOURAGED), AFTER protecting Serbian perpetrators of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. How many crimes did Slobodan have to commit before there finally WAS action? An ill-conceived arms embargo on ALL parties so only the Serbs supplied by the Yugoslav Federal Army had arms and the Croats (initially), Bosniacks, and Kosovars were DEFENSELESS! Appeasement, appeasement, appeasement. That was the line of Clinton and the left FOR YEARS. By the time action was taken, millions were dead or displaced!
You seemed to be well informed of what happenned in the Former Yugoslavia. I am impressed, few people are. However, in all fairness, Bush Sr. also shares blame for appeasing and rewarding genocide along with Clinton. In all honesty, as you well know already, the phrase "Never again" that was a slogan after Hitler's extermination of the Jews, was simply a lie and used for political purposes only. Remember, the US only gets involved overseas when economic interests are at stake. That's why they ignored and appeased genocide in the Former Yugoslavia and it is the reason why genocide was ignored in Rwanda, Sudan and other parts of the world. If you want to get the US to intervene in a foreign country, threaten it's economic interests and that will be a good way to do it. However, evil acts being committed on people will not trigger a US intervention, though it would be the right thing for the US to do. For example the Carter Doctrine threatening military force, including nuclear weapons, if the Soviet Union went from Afghanistan into Iran. Carter only came up with this doctrine to protect US oil interests in the Middle East. US foreign policy is all about money and nothing about doing the honest, decent thing. Sometimes, the US does evil things in order to further it's economic interests.
What conservatives would those be?
In the case of Yugoslavia, both Republicans and Democrats alike were guilty for acting as accomplices to the genocide of Muslims in Bosnia, it was not merely a problem only with Democrats but with both parties. It is part of a long list of reasons why the US had planes slammed into the World Trade Center on 9/11. It's a law of physics really when you think about it. You just can't go around the world acting as accomplices to genocide and then committing terrorist acts and overthrowing democratically elected governments to make more money. And the American people cannot remain apathetic or ignorant to what their government does overseas forever without paying a very heavy price for it eventually. Law of economics and physics is the way I look at it.
Dead by natural causes. Some accomplishment. I wanted justice served. Those liberals in the European tribunal allowed Slobodan to get away with stalling tactic after stalling tactic. In the end, he didn't get what he deserved: a tribunal staring him in the face and declaring him guilty for his crimes.
I think you are looking at this the wrong way. The world simply would not administer justice to these people who committed these evil acts, God is long sufferring and waited a long time to see if the world would do the right thing. It did not, so God had to take it upon himself, intervene and administer justice to Milosevic. Nobody in the Balkans will ever believe that Milosevic died of natural causes, me either for that matter. To me, he will face a far harsher justice before God than he ever would before a court. However, forgive your enemies and do not become like your enemies.
As for Saddam, hopefully he will face justice while he is still alive. Osama is the next on the list.
I agree that it will be good to see Saddam face justice. Osama Bin Laden should also face justice. However, the United States has some crimes to answer for as well. Just because your the most powerful country in the world, it doesn't make you above the law or moral principles based on honesty and decency. If their is no other man made more powerful organization to administer justice upon the US, then "cosmic justice", a term I use loosely to describe how everybody or everything seems to get what is coming to them, will be administered upon the US. Cosmic justice always seems to come around, and frankly speaking, September 11 was nothing more than a very tiny dose of the same medicine that the US was giving to others. It is quite interesting to see the American people react in the same way to September 11 as people in foreign countries reacted to US interventions, based on economic interests, claiming countless civilian lives. The old addage that you reap what you sow. When you examine how the US acted in the Former Yugoslavia, you will begin to slowly piece together the puzzle as to why the US was attacked on September 11. Anyway, good post and glad to see somebody who is well informed of what actually happenned in the Former Yugoslavia.