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Originally posted by DaveE
...Regarding our involvement in Yugoslavia, funny you should bring it up in comparison. There was an internal blood-bath going on at the time if you might remember, and the first actual deployment of 500 US soldiers occurred in Sept '91 with the UN under Bush I. These were the days when coalitions were possible, we had friends around the world, had NATO and UN co-operation. Bush, Rice, et al railed against this when running for office, saying we were not about nation-building. What are we attempting to do now, my friend?

There was no internal "blood bath" in Kosovo when Clinton went to war with Yugoslavia. The supposed "mass graves" in Kosovo turns out to have never existed...just as all our intel indicated all along. You are referring to a totally different war (Bosnia/Croatia). The UN did not authorize Clinton's actions in Yugoslavia and we killed many innocents in an air war. As far as "nation-building." in Yugoslavia we divided a sovereign country and removed the duly elected government and installed a new one. Clinton did this to a country that never attacked or threated the US...Iraq did both. We stiill have to keep troops in Yugoslavia after all these years just to ensure they run their government as we see fit...Some success!