I'm curious - how many people here supported Pres. Clinton's

[Bluerthanblue]

decision to join in the NATO actions in Kosovo?

[Kurovski]

1. You should set it up as a poll, if you're serious. (nt)

[Bluerthanblue]

2. thanks- maybe I'll give that a try. I'm seriously curious about this.

I can't edit this into a poll, so I'm gonna wait a bit and try again later if no one replies.

For what it's worth, I supported Pres. Clinton even though I don't advocate war and violence as solutions to war and violence.

:hi:

[Warren Stupidity]

3. I did at the time and I was wrong to do so.

I've relearned that lesson all over again. I was also wrong about Afghanistan. It is all bullshit. Why Libya and not Yemen or Cote D'Ivoire, or Bahrain, or Sudan for over ten years? Rwanda anyone?

[Bluerthanblue]

6. why do you feel you were wrong?

Is it because you had a change of ideology, or something about the particular situation?

[Warren Stupidity]

12. Because it was just trumped up Great Power bullshit.

There was no genocidal crisis in Kosovo. There was one in Rwanda, more or less concurrently, and we did fuck all about that.

[Hamlette]

4. I did and am glad we did it. n/t

[Bluerthanblue]

7. thanks- eom

[Posteritatis]

9. Same here. (nt)

[yardwork]

5. I've been against every war and military exercise or whatever they called it in my lifetime.

That's since 1960. Against the war in Vietnam. Against bombing of Cambodia and Laos. Against the filthy miserable secret wars in Latin America. Against the invasion of Grenada (eyeroll). Against Somalia. Kosovo. Bombing of the Sudan. I was against it when Clinton bombed Khartoum. I was against Desert Storm 1. Against it again when w did it. I was against the bombing and invasion of Afghanistan. What else have you got? If it was a military attack on somebody I was against it. Pure enough for you?

Oh yeah, I was against Reagan when he rattled his penis, er, sabre, at Libya the last time. I remember the line of death or whatever Kaddafi called it back then.

[Bluerthanblue]

8. thanks- eom

[rug]

10. I didn't.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. I didn't. Nor do I support Obama's "necessary" war in Afghanistan or interference in Libya.

You'd think we'd have learned about taking sides in civil wars after Vietnam but politicians just cherish the idea of strapping on their 6 guns and riding off to fight the bogeymen.