| Renegade,
First off, I never claimed to have saved the Balkans, but Canadian Soldiers like myself having been involved in keeping the peace in the Balkans for over a decade. In 1992, my battalion came off a 6 month tour from Cyprus, was then called in for aide to civil power within Canada and then was deployed again in a matter of weeks to the Balkans. Noone complained, soldiers went in and did their job.
If you think that we think poorly of Slavs, then talk to some of the senior NCO's that ran through effective fire to save children, or the Engineers that cleared minefields. You think that they were doing this for themselves? You think that the Peacekeepers that risked their lives did it for themselves? You think that they enjoyed donning the Blue Beret and turning in their heavy weapons so that they could get in between the warring factions? No... So why then did they do it? Because people cared. If you have a chip on your shoulder, try to make your points valid, maybe then you can get some sort of point across. But in my opinion, you should have nothing but praise and thanks for the U.N. and for NATO. |