Posted by Tap [ThatAgnosticPerson] on April 04, 1999 at 13:21:36 {th2VaRoznY8c5nWRtv1gtly6WEe0Rc}:
In Reply to: Look out Milosivic posted by WW on April 03, 1999 at 19:21:07:
WW,
Some would see your message as evidence of being easily led by having only a passing knowledge of the situation -- just enough to be manipulated.
I am very ignorant about much of the situation, but I am sure that your one-sided view is very dangerous both because it encourages ignorance (after all, if you know you're right then why take the chance of researching the facts) and because it encourages demonizing the "enemy" and not reflecting on your own actions.
To my way of thinking, President Clinton and NATO leaders have committed a grave act that will probably have serious future repercussions. NATO was founded as a defensive organization and it held the high moral ground. There were few man-made organizations that had a higher calling or had such a moral purpose. The purpose was simply to defend against an expansionist attack by a militaristic nation.
Now, that high noble and moral purpose has been corrupted beyond repair. NATO has took it upon itself to attack. To take sides in a civil war. To attack a sovereign nation.
Do not be naive. Now that we have taken sides, in the future when the people we have sided with commits atrocities we will cover it up and ignore it as we have always done.
Had the US and the other powers acted together without using NATO then that would be another discussion. But NATO has now and forever been prostituted and the future effects can be anyone's guess.
For example, does anyone seriously doubt that Russian nationalists can now make a convincing case to fellow Russians that NATO has them or their other allies targeted for the future -- that Russia must act now to defend itself from the NATO monster that is now on the loose?
NATO is now an aggressor, and, by definition is now capable of any aggressive act. Do you understand what a tragedy that is?