tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post3965918309280462632..comments2023-10-30T06:31:05.501-07:00Comments on MilPub: Wanted: Dead or AliveFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-4271450485721499672011-06-07T09:22:24.231-07:002011-06-07T09:22:24.231-07:00seydlitz,
So i understand-
A strategic thinker is ...seydlitz,<br />So i understand-<br />A strategic thinker is allowed to succumb to vengeance once in a while?!<br />What do we call this?<br />jimrangeragainstwarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02126542922536584950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-17287155012749563832011-06-01T14:20:50.337-07:002011-06-01T14:20:50.337-07:00Gwynne Dyer has a very nice column about the usefu...Gwynne Dyer has a very nice column about the <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-395715/vancouver/gwynne-dyer-ratko-mladic-and-end-impunity" rel="nofollow">usefulness of the ICC</a>Aelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788190394672505925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-70401441440404873262011-05-31T14:37:56.881-07:002011-05-31T14:37:56.881-07:00jim-
I don't claim to be thinking strategical...jim-<br /><br />I don't claim to be thinking strategically in this instance. It's more about vengeance, although I was simply a bystander. I hope the Bosnians find some peace through this . . .seydlitz89https://www.blogger.com/profile/15431952900333460640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-49313252233785009242011-05-29T11:06:43.038-07:002011-05-29T11:06:43.038-07:00seydlitz,
When one starts personalizing then it...seydlitz,<br />When one starts personalizing then it's hard to think strategically.<br />Doesn't strategic thinking require a detachment from the personality?<br />Hate distorts reasoning.<br />jimjim at rangerhttp://rangeragainstwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-5547497653009964732011-05-28T21:02:10.162-07:002011-05-28T21:02:10.162-07:00Back in the 19th Century when England, France, Rus...Back in the 19th Century when England, France, Russia and Italy all were playing the great game in Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria, wasn't it Bismarck who said something along the lines that: <i>"The Balkans are not worth the life of a single Pomeranian soldier."</i>?mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-11670691013152147222011-05-28T17:30:10.610-07:002011-05-28T17:30:10.610-07:00Mike, Seydlitz, Chief:
Otto von Bismarck, the “Ir...Mike, Seydlitz, Chief:<br /><br />Otto von Bismarck, the “Iron Chancellor” was, in his day, above all, interested in playing Russia against France. He regarded the Orient rather as he regarded the Balkans, "As the swamp to end all swamps." <br /><br />So what's a Westerner to do (Howdy Pod'ner)? Ignore the Balkan/Mohammedan hordes, or have them come to you, in order to ruin your day? No more Viennas.....just use other peoples for your scut work (Mexicans anyone)?fasteddieznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-71637858244040891452011-05-28T14:45:00.548-07:002011-05-28T14:45:00.548-07:00YT -
The War in Kosovo was several years later. ...YT - <br /><br />The War in Kosovo was several years later. I do not know of any sources that claim the KLA had anything to do with inciting the Serbs to massacre Bosniaks at Srebenica. <br /><br />But you are right that the KLA committed some atrocities also. So did the Bosniaks, Croats, and a few Macedonians and Montenegrins. The Hague I believe has indicted some of the above and has convicted some from each group. Although the majority of those indicted have been Bosnian Serbs, nobody is without blame in the Balkans. Someone once said: "They are all cursed with the ability to forget nothing of their history and yet never learn any lessons from it." Not an exact quote, perhaps it is more a paraphrase. <br /><br />Mladic himself and Karadzic also were Bosnian Serb and not from Serbia itself. At their age I am sure they were born either during or just before or after the Nazi Occupation. They must have heard stories from their grandparents or greataunts and uncles of that time when some say more than a half a million Serbs died, not at the hands of the Germans but at the hands of their own countrymen. The Nazis were more interested in Jews. But in the major concentratrion camps in Yugoslavia, Sajmiste, Schabatz and Nisch, many more Serbs died than Jews and Gypsies. There was as much or more ethnic cleansing going on then as later in the 1990s but in reverse. Most of the atrocities committed against Serbs during that time were done by Bosnian Croat Catholics in the Ustase. But at the time some Bosniaks welcomed the German occupation and some accepted jobs in the death camps and in the Waffen SS. The same goes for the Kosovar Albanians, many of whom enlisted in the Scanderberg SS Division. I don't know if any of those war criminals were ever brought to trial. I suspect they escaped trial at Nuremberg. Maybe Tito got a few, but after the war wasn't he was more interested in unity than pursuing war criminals? I hope I am wrong. <br /><br />But other than Mladic I wonder how many others have been tried for war crimes in Srebenica? And we should not forget: 1] the Greek Volunteer Guard who allegedly participated in the massacre and have never been investigated by the Hague; and 2] the Dutch UN commander who allowed it to happen. And while we are talking about the Dutch, why not charge them with war crimes for their cluster bombing of civilians in Nis during the Kosovo War?<br /><br />Don't get me wrong I am for the prosecution of Mladic and his henchmen. But let's be honest about it and go after all war criminals, not just the ones that get incriminated in the popular media.mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-65401445653662906902011-05-28T12:06:06.257-07:002011-05-28T12:06:06.257-07:00jim-
I think it had something to do with dealing ...jim-<br /><br />I think it had something to do with dealing with Bosnian refugees over a period of some time, editing all those IIRs of Serbian war crimes and seeing how it was having little to no effect. There were several high-level resignations of US officials over this and many lower-level careers ended voluntarily here as well . . . in other words, it's personal.seydlitz89https://www.blogger.com/profile/15431952900333460640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-91767371151035640112011-05-28T10:02:32.920-07:002011-05-28T10:02:32.920-07:00I dunno if I sympathize with the KLA that much...
...I dunno if I sympathize with the KLA that much...<br /><br />http://www.gregoryclark.net/jt/page81/page81.htmlYTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-41673087204560742582011-05-28T08:08:20.665-07:002011-05-28T08:08:20.665-07:00seydlitz,
When did hatred become part of the job d...seydlitz,<br />When did hatred become part of the job description?<br />Why do we bring guys like this to trial, but give free passes to guys like GWB?<br />If we can try this guy in this docket, then why not guys like ksm?<br />Why do we selectively applaud one prosecution and ignore others?<br />jimjim at rangerhttp://rangeragainstwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-65600563260504006342011-05-27T02:11:36.776-07:002011-05-27T02:11:36.776-07:00Oh, how I hated this bastard! Finally!Oh, how I hated this bastard! Finally!seydlitz89https://www.blogger.com/profile/15431952900333460640noreply@blogger.com