[Skybird]

I certainly see the ambitions of Milosevic and Karadzic leading beyond simple self-defense, however I have already revised my old attitude on the West's role on the Balkans, and NATO's war. since we had no obligation to be in defense of serbish interests as you describe them, and western position became questionable when wanting to stop the snipering at Sarajevo, but not caring for Muslim snipers as you described, and sending peacekeepers with a totally idiotic mandate that forbid them to be effective, which led to the disgusting role they played in Screbrenica, and it definitely has not been in our interest to make Albanian Muslims puring into Kosovo and taking it while erecting a government of Mafia-gangsters, war criminals, and former brutal Militia leaders, we really should have kept out of it. Instead we bombed Serbish factories (mind you that Serb forces were cabable to withdraw almost untouched, in good order, most units without even notable losses, and 9 out of 10 smart missiles having been fooled by fake doubles, so said the British MoD). sure it would have been a mess to let have Milosevic ruling all those places by use of terror and brutality, but I cannot say that I conclude the situation now is more preferrable. the tensions in bosnia are being supressed and I fear are growing in the hidden. there is Kosovo and what it is now. The balkans was a stategic lose-lose-situation for the West from the beginning. In such cases it probably is best to simply stay out, instead of gettig dirty hands all for nothing.

Don't take it personally when I say I am fed up with the Balkans, completely. It was a source of mess in the past, and it still is today. That you with Serb ancestors see it different, I can understand.