What do you think about NATO?

[Upsee]

Are NATO missions justified or not, what do you think? Also you can name any missions that you know of..

 

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Fudge brownie hot, with walnuts and vanilla ice cream.

 

[PT Car Washer]

Are NATO missions justified or not, what do you think? Also you can name any missions that you know of..

My National Guard unit was deployed to Kosovo as part of the KFOR mission.

 

[Wally]

A big arse Nato' ripped through my trailer park!

 

[Upsee]

My National Guard unit was deployed to Kosovo as part of the KFOR mission.

 

[PT Car Washer]

Not quite the way I remember it. Rewriting history again.

 

[Upsee]

Not quite the way I remember it. Rewriting history again.

Ok, what do you remember?

 

[PT Car Washer]

Ok, what do you remember?

NATO finally stopping another genocide in the heart of Europe after not acting earlier in the Balkans.

 

[Upsee]

NATO finally stopping another genocide in the heart of Europe after not acting earlier in the Balkans.

Ok, I think I can see how you formed your opinion. My question is, what is the definition of genocide and where in Balkans has it happened previously? My guess is you are reffering to Bosnia. My research is that a certain number of murders constitutes a genocide, lowest number I could find is 10,000 and that hasn't happened anywhere in Balkans in the 90's. It has happened though during world war II in that region orchestrated by Croatians and it was a genocide on Serbian people, the numbers were anywhere from 700,000-1,000,000 murdered civilians.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

My guess is you are reffering to Bosnia. My research is that a certain number of murders constitutes a genocide, lowest number I could find is 10,000 and that hasn't happened anywhere in Balkans in the 90's.

Look again. 30,000+ were murdered.

 

[Upsee]

Look again. 30,000+ were right. The point is that the word genocide is thrown around loosely in this case to justifyurdered.

Ok, you are probably right. That just proves the point that there was no genocide.

 

[Upsee]

Look again. 30,000+ were murdered.

Oh I see what you are saying, who were the victims though?

 

[PT Car Washer]

Ok, I think I can see how you formed your opinion. My question is, what is the definition of genocide and where in Balkans has it happened previously? My guess is you are reffering to Bosnia. My research is that a certain number of murders constitutes a genocide, lowest number I could find is 10,000 and that hasn't happened anywhere in Balkans in the 90's. It has happened though during world war II in that region orchestrated by Croatians and it was a genocide on Serbian people, the numbers were anywhere from 700,000-1,000,000 murdered civilians.

You believe 10,000 innocent deaths was not genocide?

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Ok, you are probably right. That just proves the point that there was no genocide.

Oh I see what you are saying, who were the victims though?

Killing 30,000 people IS a genocide. The UN labels a genocide as

"...any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such"

The Bosnian genocide was an ethnic cleansing.

 

[Upsee]

You believe 10,000 innocent deaths was not genocide?

That is what I was going to get to.. Certainly is atrocity, that isn't the point. One innocet people that dies is one too many, certainly is a crime. I was gonna get to the part where I say it did not happen.

 

[PT Car Washer]

Oh I see what you are saying, who were the victims though?

One death is a tragedy, 10,000 is a statistic? Who said that? Stalin.

 

[Upsee]

I was slowly trying to arrive to a conclusion that NATO committed a crime by bombing innocent civilians on both Serbian and Albanian side to so called prevent a genocide or what not.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

I was slowly trying to arrive to a conclusion that NATO committed a crime by bombing innocent civilians on both Serbian and Albanian side to so called prevent a genocide or what not.

They didn't bomb civilians. They bombed military targets.

 

[Upsee]

 

[PT Car Washer]

I was slowly trying to arrive to a conclusion that NATO committed a crime by bombing innocent civilians on both Serbian and Albanian side to so called prevent a genocide or what not.

NATO struck mostly military targets early in the air campaign. Only later did NATO strike government infrastructure to force an end to hostilities. Also bombed a Chinese diplomatic building by mistake.