From: niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent)
Subject: Re: WAR IN BOSNIA!!!!
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 05:20:13 GMT

In <C0E9KH.n3u@apollo.hp.com> goykhman@apollo.hp.com (Red Herring) writes:
>In article <1hrf1oINNq74@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ck442@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Floyd Low) writes:

>>not until just lately have they taken a real interest...as you say
>>G Bush and Coy are probably going to do something...I think they can
>>deal the belligerants a High explosive wakeup call with little

>    Don't you think that using High explosives against
>    the belligerents is kind of belligerent in itself and would
>    only add to the number of belligerent in the region?

Only if you're such a pacifist that you regard self-defense as "belligerent."

>>risk because they don't have to drive into rifle range to do it.
>>I'm talking about counter battery radars/side looking radar and
>>all the gadgetry that was on trial in the Saddam Hussein war
>>recently...additionally from a perspective of keeping the Serbs
>>off balance, what better way to make them miserabel than to start
>>sniping away at their positions with cruise missiles and other
>>standoff weapons just when they thought they could enjoy a
>>quiet winter of kiling helpless old women in Sarajevo

>    The Serbs proposed evacuating Saraevo's civilian population, 
>    but the Bosnian "goverment" would not let the evacuation take 
>    place, for they hold the women and children of Saraevo hostages
>    and use them as human shields, as well as for target practice, 
>    preferrably in front TV cameras (more than once the "Bosnian" 
>    goverment was caught shelling their own civilians for propaganda 
>    purposes).

Yes, of course Serbia proposed evacuating Sarajevo's civilian
population.  They also proposed evacuating the rest of Bosnia's civilian
population.  Then, when the Bosnian government didn't go along with
that, they decided to help by kicking out the Bosnians or rounding them
up into concentration camps.

The Serbs could propose not shelling Sarajevo anymore.  That would be a
little more humanitarian.  But it might hurt their goal of ethnically
cleansing Bosnia, so they won't do it.

>>so in short I say fear not, G Bush and Coy have the means to send the
>>serbs packing in short order. do we want to do that though?

>    That what the Nazi's thought (they too had a Croatian-Bosnian 
>    fascist state on their side), and the Serbs gave them some
>    pretty hard time.

They too?  You mean, Bosnia is fascist at the moment?

Gee, and I thought it was *Serbia* who has, so far, attacked Slovenia,
Croatia, and now Bosnia.

I thought it was *Serbia* who decided to eliminate all the liberties
given to the Albanian *majority* in Kosovo.

My mistake.  It's all a plot by Adolph Hitler and his Bosnian Buddies.

>...

>    The bottom line is: B-H has never been as an independent
>    state, and the majority of Bosnia's population do NOT want it to 
>    become one.  It is time for the West to realize that the political 
>    map of Europe has no room for the Bosnian Humpty-Dumpty.

I wasn't aware of any surveys showing that.  Certainly many Serbs in Bosnia
don't favor the idea of an independent state, but they don't make up
half the population.

The political map of Europe has plenty of room for Bosnia.  It has no
room, however, for Greater Serbia.

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