However, since 1991, when the reverse canonization of Yugoslavia became official, its enemies have been automatically beatified. There is no doubt that before the war Serb cops got as nasty as NY or LA cops often get. A reasonable policy would have been for NATO to order police departments and correctional institutions in the U.S. get more civilized. After we had reformed, NATO should have gone after our allies, and made them see the light. When that was accomplished it would have been time to go out and try to convert the heathens.
Charity starts at home, they say.
Instead we decided to start with the Serb heathens. We wanted them to be as polite and law-abiding as British bobbies. The Serbs did not comply, and in a fit of rage we destroyed their country, including the land of our Albanian Kosovar allies. At that point, under attack by the world's mightiest alliance, some of the Serbs of Kosovo, after thirty years of living under Albanian terror, began reprisals, and did engage in murderous ethnic cleansing . Yet, it is outrageous to pretend that we did not expect it.