Remember Kosovo?

We remember it for one reason in particular -- the opportunity that the Balkans presented (assuming it was anything like the "crisis" it was presented to be) for the U.S. to completely bow out and indicate that the it was tired of carrying water to every brush fire and civil war around the world and being roundly criticized by enlightened Europeans for our trouble. Instead, Mr. Clinton could have just said the Balkans are in Europe's back yard and that we looked to Europe to handle matters there.

Aussiegirl describes the many civilian targets that were hit by U.S. bombers during Mr. Clinton's little excursis in Kosovo, which is Exhibit A for mindless U.S. foreign intervention. Mindless, that is, if you think it had a purpose other than to benefit Muslim terrorists.

Aussiegirl also has some choice words for the press that will bend over backwards to ignore a President's baseless and lethal attack on Serbia because he was a Democrat.

This is from her preamble to the Accuracy in Media piece she reposts in part:

The illegal war waged by Clinton in Kosovo is one of the untold scandals of the century. How many people know that every single bridge over the Danube river was destroyed during this mindless bombing campaign? That civilian targets such as schools, hospitals, railroad stations, factories and moving trains were deliberately targeted killing thousands of civilians?^[1]

From Cliff Kinkaid at Accuracy in Media:

In the year before the bombing, some 2,000 people had been killed in a civil war in Kosovo. A conservative estimate is that 6,000 were killed by U.S. and NATO bombs. . . .

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Interestingly, Al-Jazeera celebrated the fifth anniversary of 9/11 by airing several al-Qaeda videos, one of which showed two of the 9/11 hijackers saying their actions were designed to avenge the suffering of Muslims in Bosnia and Chechnya. Nothing demonstrates the bankruptcy of the Clinton policy more than that. Not only did Clinton order the CIA to help the KLA in Kosovo, he approved Iranian arms shipments to the Bosnian Muslims, in order to help them establish a Muslim state in Bosnia. Still, that wasn't good enough for the Jihadists. Nothing appeases them.

The Clinton policy of supporting the same extremist Muslim forces in Europe that subsequently attacked us on 9/11 is far more controversial than the policy of regime change in Iraq, which was officially a policy of Clinton, Bush and the Congress. Kosovo was never a threat to the U.S., and Serbia didn't even pretend to have weapons of mass destruction.^[2]

Notes
^[1] "Clinton's Kosovo Whopper -- Clinton's war against the Serbs." By Aussiegirl, Ultima Thule, 9/29/06 (emphasis added).
^[2] "Clinton's Kosovo Whopper." By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media, 9/26/06 (emphasis added) <-- Ultima Thule.