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**immoceefe** · 02-19-2008, 08:33 AM

Needless to say, we (America) would not likely have bombed Serbia had it not been for Milosevic. Not that I am defending it, but let's not forget the person who was a leading cause of the carnage to begin with.

In WWII, the Allies got together to defeat Hitler and Japan, but sadly millions of innocent people were killed, not just Germans and Japanese, but we killed tens of thousands of Africans, Italians and French in bombing raids and artillery fire against the Germans. The first Americans killed in WWII were killed by French soldiers in Morocco and Algeria! And let's not forget Poland, for whom Britain and France entered the war. They ended the war enslaved by the Soviets. So politics and war make for very strange bedfellows. It is never just. And it is never neat and tidy.

And when it comes to reading history, it can bring blessings and curses. I think one of the curses of some is to be harboring resentments from 500 or 1000 years past. The fact is that, for good or for ill, the glory days of a greater Serbia are over, just as they will be for my country some day.

02-19-2008, 08:33 AM	#19
immoceefe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 474 Senior Member	Needless to say, we (America) would not likely have bombed Serbia had it not been for Milosevic. Not that I am defending it, but let's not forget the person who was a leading cause of the carnage to begin with. In WWII, the Allies got together to defeat Hitler and Japan, but sadly millions of innocent people were killed, not just Germans and Japanese, but we killed tens of thousands of Africans, Italians and French in bombing raids and artillery fire against the Germans. The first Americans killed in WWII were killed by French soldiers in Morocco and Algeria! And let's not forget Poland, for whom Britain and France entered the war. They ended the war enslaved by the Soviets. So politics and war make for very strange bedfellows. It is never just. And it is never neat and tidy. And when it comes to reading history, it can bring blessings and curses. I think one of the curses of some is to be harboring resentments from 500 or 1000 years past. The fact is that, for good or for ill, the glory days of a greater Serbia are over, just as they will be for my country some day.
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