NATO was to look after it's own interest

Originally Posted by Renegade

I do not need to talk to any members that were so called "peace keepers" I already know many people that were there. What kiwis think is irrelevant to any of this. Many videos are in circulatuion, but the liberal media only plays ones that discredit the serbs. They will never show that NATO pilots bombed civilian targets. Anything else to add?

Regardless of what you may think it is a recognised fact that civilised people do not go around slaughtering each other irrespective of religious belief. The fact that you dont seem to understand this simple principle of civilised behaviour indicates that it will happen again which is unfortunate.

. They will never show that NATO pilots bombed civilian targets. Anything else to add?

NATO pilots bombed strategic targets that happened to be within cities which in turn lead to civilian casualties this is somewhat different to Serbian snipers shooting kids in a market place or paramilitaries lining up civilians and executing them.

See this I think is where the whole Yugoslav/Serbian thing fell over and that was a failure to understand that you can only get away with so many attrocities before someone developes enough guilt to stop you.

Originally Posted by r031Button

We're talking about Srebencia right? Without questionthe dutch should have held it. That they were peacekeepers is irrelevent, they're still there to protect citizens.

The problem is that they didn't have the capacity to hold it, if they had tried they would have met the same fate. As I recall (and I may be wrong here) the Dutch commander believed that the Serbs would behave differently knowing that there were witnesses to anything they might try hence he believed it safer for them back down to avoid reprisals on the civilian population given that they could hold the city.

Originally Posted by Renegade

NATO was to look after it's own interest

which were.....come on now, develop the thought!

yea, NATO was there to make sure that only nations friendly to NATO would emerge out of yugoslavia, instead of having a yugoslavia which was very anti-NATO and anti-Western, there are not Croatia and Bosnia, which are essentially NATO client states, as they depend on NATO for protection.

oh...i see,


very reasonable




face it...the UN/NATO came in to stop everyone in the region from tearing each other apart like savages.


now you seem pretty keen on "enlightening" us, care to give us some history about the lead up to the god awful waking nightmare that was the balkans confict?

Originally Posted by Renegade

yea, NATO was there to make sure that only nations friendly to NATO would emerge out of yugoslavia, instead of having a yugoslavia which was very anti-NATO and anti-Western, there are not Croatia and Bosnia, which are essentially NATO client states, as they depend on NATO for protection.

See I don't here to many stories about dead serb babies. Yet I also remember distinctly the images of UN and NATO forces in Kosovo defending Serbians from Albanians. In fact, I also know that there UNPA's set up to protect serbians as well as Bosnian Muslims and Croats.


The rest of the world will stay out of "slavic lands" when you can show us your capable of not slaughtering each other.

The conflict in the Balkans has been going on in some form or another for what? 800 years? It's hard to stop such deep hatred.

At the same time Renegade, you should have a little respect for the soldiers who risked their lives to save that little ****hole. Put politics aside and show some respect to those who fought and died to save people who were not even their own nationality. Do us a favour and wake up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War

Time to take the pigskin bus to tuna town folks... war is hell and full of humans who must make decisions and just like any endeavour it is wrought with judgement calls. It is very easy to armchair quarterback this thing and try to second guess the Dutch commander. Anyone thinks they can do it better rest assured your chance will come and it will be your turn.
And yes respect needs to be paid to those who put their arses on the line, on the ground, in a foreign country they didn't ask to go protect from itself.
In the words of Ali G, "Respekt!"