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Why World Went After Serbs
by Julia Gorin [pundit/comedian] 6/8/07

From Tony Blair’s speech to the “Islam and Muslims in the world today” conference in London on Monday:

Many Christians disagreed with the decisions I took over Afghanistan or Iraq. Leave aside for a moment whether they were the right or wrong decisions. What is damaging is if they are seen in the context of religious decisions.
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The religious faith of either country was as irrelevant to the decision as was the fact that the Kosovo Albanians we rescued were Muslims, suffering under a Serbian dictatorship, whose religion happened to be Christian Orthodox.

There are a number of myriad reasons that we bombed a European country on behalf of Muslims claiming oppression in Kosovo despite a decade of evidence that the opposite was happening. One aspect of course was the leftist and neocon fantasy that Islamic good will could be won. Yugoslavia itself was poised to be sacrificed in this experiment because it wasn’t moving quickly enough in the economic and political direction that Washington wanted it to, still stuck in communist inertia. Also dooming its fate, Yugoslavia slept while its enemies’ propaganda machines swung into action, each hiring American PR firms to make its case for secession, and purchasing a significant percentage of the United States Congress.

Another reason for the war on a European nation, poses former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia James Bissett in his article “Why NATO Really Smote the Serbs”, was “to maintain NATO as an essential military organization” in a post-Cold War era. And the American president at the time required a vanity war for his own personal political reasons.

Though several European powers needed coaxing and trade-offs from the U.S. to go along with the action, Europe already had a distaste for the unabashedly Christian Serbs, and felt threatened that there still existed a huge Yugoslavia to which borders still meant something and which could be unweildy in a new Europe composed of small states, powerless in and of themselves and subject to the say of a large, all-encompassing European Union.

But the unprecedented phenomenon of media, governments, peaceniks, hawks, NGOs and humanitarian agencies being on the same page for war in a unique convergence of interests can best be explained by one subconscious but compelling motivation.

To convince the world of an unconvincing case they continually try to make: the archaic notion that Christians are just as violent, dangerous, brutish and bellicose as Muslims, that those who follow the Good Book can be as violent as those who follow the Koran.

To anyone saying that Christian violence is an obsolete notion, specific to a time and place we haven’t seen for hundreds of years, one can respond, “But wait! Look at what the Christians in the Balkans did to the meek Muslims.

This hoax, still perpetuated and protected, is as big as the one by which Muslims had the world believing that the Crusades were an aggressive and unprovoked Christian-initiated holy war, rather than a defensive and delayed reaction to the conquest and subjugation of the Holy Land by a Muslim holy war. ExileStreet

First appeared at Frontpagemag.com.

copyright 2007 Julia Gorin

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