DarkPegasus said:
You would all be talking differently if your country was in war with america... And mine was(Serbia and Montenegro, formerly known as Yugoslavia) and for what? To protect the stability of the region? Why didn't they then bombar Albania? Cuz they started all the "instability"? If you wanna know why, it's because they had a lot of outdated weponry and they needed to sell it to somebody... And we are the cross road of Asia and Europe. Oh and did you know that the USA soldiers were afraid to come down and fight like men... And do you know why? Cuz my country has the best Guerill warfare tactics and we had the best tenks in Europe. It is easy to pick a country see where it is weak and then destroy it that way. And because of that I think that Americans(not all just those military tactisians) are *****.
Well then if you hate all Americans for no reason you're ignorant. It's amusing that you hate me personally, simply for my nationality, just because of the past actions of my country. The Balkans was hell in the 1990s, I know that for sure, and we were in Serbia/Montenegro in 1997 or 1998 I believe. Now tell me, did you support or oppose Slobodan Milosevic? Since you say your nationality was Yugoslavia and not Kosovo, and because you see the US as oppressors and not liberators, it seems that you must have.
I know I can't see it from your perspective; I've had people tell me that it feels a lot different when it's your country being bombed instead of theirs, and that's true, and I have immense sympathy for those whose lives were unduly ended or forever changed by the conflict. You have no idea how bad Americans feel for those who are caught up in war; our hearts are bleeding for the unfortunate but those on the other side never know that. All they see is the American soldier there trying to change (in your mind, destroy) things and you see him as the face of all Americans, and thus the lie is born and persists in yet another person. You really need to distinguish between a country's army and a country's people and realize all the humanitarian efforts that groups and individuals have done and what a desire there is to help when such situations arise.
If there's one thing America hates, it's genocide, and that was exactly was going on at the time; basically an extermination of one race by another. In your first post you talked about your precious UN; incase you don't know, the United States went in there as part of a United Nations operation; you're speaking like we acted unilaterally, which is absolutely untrue. Though we did play the main role, it was because we were the best-equipped to go in and stop Milosevic's holocaust.
You didn't really state your reasons for why you were so upset. If it's a matter of national pride, it's hard to understand. I love my country, but if there was war and death and genocide happening all across the nation, and spilling into the borders of other nations, and it was the fault of my nation, I'd be begging another country to restore peace. I can't pretend to understand the situation, but I know that we (and the UN, don't forget!) had the clear and noble purpose of stability, and even if things didn't end perfectly, we were still there to end genocide and did. Now I could understand your hatred of the US government (but not the people, that's still irrational) if you were personally affected by the conflict, i.e. a family member dying, your home being attacked, anything like that, as is sometimes the case in war. Things like this happen, and because we bear the brunt of the assault, we get all the blame.
Incase you don't know this, we attacked with airplanes instead of ground troops because we wanted to get rid of Milosevic and anyone perpetrating the genocide without causing unnecessary casualties, not from a matter of lacking "manliness"...believe me, it doesn't take a man to point a trigger at someone else and shoot them, and when ground troops are involved in a war, there's a lot less precision involved and far more innocent people die. We (and the UN!) were after your government, not your people. It was never a matter of avoiding guerillas and tanks.
About Albania, I know very little about their involvement. I just know that all the Balkan states hate each other (it was the powder keg of WWI after all) and that I can't filter accusation from truth. But I'm not sure that placing the blame on any one country really solves anything. The Balkans was a mess then, and it is now, but at least people aren't killing each other like they were. We don't prey on weak countries. Remember that little war back in the 40s when we took on the world's most powerful nation because they were killing Jews? When we were rivals with the Soviet Union (whose oppression is the reason for all the misery in Europe)? We perform military opperations based on the problem, not the country. If we preyed on weak nations, three-fourths of the world would belong to us and Serbia would have been renamed East Dakota long ago.
But hey, America-haters are blind to anything but their own hatred. I'm just wasting my breath, but I do feel a lot more patriotic now.
