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Eamonn, you are trolling, quite seriously and deliberately.

Your claim that NATO air strikes stopped Serb atrocities in Kosovo is not borne out by the facts. Nearly every commentator acknowledges that the NATO air strikes were largely ineffective against Serb forces on the ground in Kosovo. The Serbs were well able to camouflage their equipment and suffered very little from airstrikes. Pointedly, Serb attacks on Kosovo civilians were unaffected by the air strikes (p225 of the Rand report linked below).

What the air strikes did do was to purposefully target the civilian infrastructure of Serbia – bridges, roads, factories, water treatment plants, power stations, killing 500 Serb civilians in the process – and it was THAT pressure which forced Milosevic to capitulate NOT attacks on Serbs forces engaged in atrocities in Kosovo. I presume that the default tactic of US/NATO air power, the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure, designed to rapidly reduce the civilian population’s standard of living and put pressure on a regime, sits well with you? In every post 1989 US led / NATO led intervention civilians have been targeted indirectly and in nearly every instance said civilians have had not role to play in the decisions of the regimes being targeted. They are doubly attacked: first by their oppressive government, and then by the West. But, I suppose, fuck ‘em, they choose to live in Serbia and Iraq if they didn’t like Milosevic or Saddam they could always leave, right?

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1365/MR1365.ch8.pdf

I can take from your ‘critique’ of the SP’s position on the North that the views of the 1 million unionists/loyalists can be safely ignored and that if they resist integration into a united Ireland they can be dealt with appropriately? What would you propose?


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