blaise

One comes under u.n sanctions...the other comes under u.s. law. In either case obama earned my disrespect for doing that. He should have at least had a public trial in absentia.
I wonder if any of the muslim haters approve of the killing

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

Do you care? I don't.

blaise

I find it interesting what different cultures think about each other. That's all. I've traveled many muslim, hindu, buddist, & christian countries & love to interrelate.
I do care.

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

Why?

rumitoid

Naw, who would? Just a teeny matter of the Constitution and International Law. Bah humbug!

blaise

I think it goes to the stat that much of what we learn comes from without. I loved to travel, & travel via surface transport, offers a lot of opportunity to interact with regular folks. My business travel, while a lot more comfortable, didn't allow for much of that..$$$ was the primary motivator.

rumitoid

Why not!

Seth

Not true -- when we were done bombing Bosnia to cinders and took the country away from Slobodin Milosevic, he was tried for exactly that, war crimes -- only the "war" crimes he was prosecuted for (they weren't successful) were the supposed "ethnic cleansing" of Albanian Muslims living in his country.

The war didn't start until we (and some European allies) invaded his country.

So say "Sorry, Larry, you were right and I was wrong."

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

Ah, but he wasn't convicted, was he, therefore he didn't commit the crime he was charged with, right?

rumitoid

Injustice has never happened before.

Seth

That entire thing was B.S.

Milosevic was into Bosnian sovereignty, and wouldn't be absorbed by the EU. Albanian Muslims were proliferating in Bosnia, trying to do the same thing there that Muslim "refugees" are today doing in EU countries -- a demographics-based invasion, and Milosevic was having none of it.

Germany wanted more influence in the Balkans. So... They had the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND, their external intelligence agency) whip up the whole ethnic cleansing scenario. Western countries, the media, everybody was "outraged," so with President William J. Clinton taking the lead, we invaded Bosnia.

I was in New York at the time, and I knew of several young Bosnian men who left and went "home" to fight for Milosevic.

So... After we all kicked his ass and took away his country, he sat in captivity for about 5 years, during which time the prosecution couldn't prove a thing.

But he was on trial for, specifically, "War Crimes."

So... After 5 years of the allied powers being unable to produce any definitive evidence of the charges against him, he became a major embarrassment to the Clinton Administration and those of the other countries involved, to say nothing of the U.N. and the world media.

His medication was withheld, so he died in captivity. Cold blooded murder at the hands of Bubba Clinton, European leaders, the U.N....

Suddenly, nobody was talking about Bosnia anymore, especially an embarrassed media.

It seems whenever there's any kind of large, disruptive "episode" in Europe, Germany has something to do with it....

rumitoid

Seriously?

Ricktloml

I think the word is projection.

EconomistDon

I'm glad Nancy got her votes. It is a small victory in her war with the hateful freshmen Congress ladies. I don't care much for Nancy, but I am on her side in this cat fight. The hateful racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Americanism of these four ladies has no place in Congress. They shoot their mouths off about the crisis at the border, condemning the administration for poor conditions, yet they were the only four Democrats to vote against financial support to improve the situation.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

I agree with you too, Larry..In some respects it certainly does..