BREAKING NEWS: Russia threat to use force over Kosovo

[Brian4Liberty]

Nice turn of your phrase, "for the facts, here's an opposing opinion' Nice way of contradicting yourself.

The whole timeline of events essentially predicted that at some point there would be further disintegration of that region. During that period, while the exaggerations were understandable, there were crimes comitted by the swerbs againt the Albanians. Whatever Al Queda was doing did not help much as most of the graves that were found were of women and kid from the muslim Albanian side.

This whole thing is a natural progression, and Serbia is rattling its sabre out of pride, and Russia is making noises to show it is a good partner. Still, Russia, even with Mad Vlad at the helm , would not be foolish enough to actually go to war for a puny neighbor that proved so costly in 1914.

Ok, best that we not split hairs...It seems that you are backing away from your earlier accusations, and that is fine.

The only people that know what really happened are the people that are eye-witnesses, and even then it can be a matter of interpretation. Whether the Kosovo separatists were helped by Osama Bin Laden, Bill Clinton or George Soros, it wouldn't really matter. Who knows?

No one was innocent in the propaganda wars over Kosovo, except for the innocent Kosovars caught in the war/revolution fomented by external forces...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Nice turn of your phrase, "for the facts, here's an opposing opinion' Nice way of contradicting yourself.

Just to be clear, yes, that was intentional irony. An "opposing" opinion implies that your original statement was nothing more than an opinion (and an opinion very likely formed from clever propaganda). And it also was intended to highlight the fact that "facts" are often nothing more than opinions.

My main point is that no matter the crimes of all sides involved, in the US we were fed a one-sided story.

"I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said" - Someone else

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Interesting article about how we were fooled by the media about Kosovo:

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=37ECF24D-7A82-49DD-962F-7AF1724CE69F

"Had we not been looking for mini Holocausts under every bed, had we not responded like Pavlovian dogs when hearing that a modern-day Holocaust was under way in Europe’s underbelly, we could have seen through the hoax...
Serbian-Americans and others who understand our miscalculation are left feverishly writing letters to editors in response to the many articles that get the Balkans wrong, in a futile attempt to inform the public...
If, as we were told, there was systematic rape by Serbs, where are the resulting children?"​

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And even though this was not Kosovo (it was next door), many people still confuse the different Balkan states, lumping them all together in their minds. Many people think that this was in Kosovo:

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/LIE/BOSNIA_PHOTO/bosnia.html

"The picture reproduced on these pages is of Fikret Alic, a Bosnian Muslim, emaciated and stripped to the waist, apparently imprisoned behind a barbed wire fence in a Bosnian Serb camp at Trnopolje. It was taken from a videotape shot on 5 August 1992 by an award-winning British television team, led by Penny Marshall (ITN) with her cameraman Jeremy Irvin, accompanied by Ian Williams (Channel 4) and the reporter Ed Vulliamy from the Guardian newspaper.

For many, this picture has become a symbol of the horrors of the Bosnian war - 'Belsen '92' as one British newspaper headline captioned the photograph (Daily Mirror, 7 August 1992). But that image is misleading.

The fact is that Fikret Alic and his fellow Bosnian Muslims were not imprisoned behind a barbed wire fence. There was no barbed wire fence surrounding Trnopolje camp. It was not a prison, and certainly not a 'concentration camp', but a collection centre for refugees, many of whom went there seeking safety and could leave again if they wished.

The barbed wire in the picture is not around the Bosnian Muslims; it is around the cameraman and the journalists. It formed part of a broken-down barbed wire fence encircling a small compound that was next to Trnopolje camp. The British news team filmed from inside this compound, shooting pictures of the refugees and the camp through the compound fence. In the eyes of many who saw them, the resulting pictures left the false impression that the Bosnian Muslims were caged behind barbed wire.

Whatever the British news team's intentions may have been, their pictures were seen around the world as the first hard evidence of concentration camps in Bosnia."
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