| > the US was trying to do was stop the genocide That's just how the West media presented the events at that time. In reality, the event you link to happened after the more years of war, where the victims of the mass-murder event renamed as genocide were the side which the US actively supported (Bosnian Muslims), and which had their own "kind-of-ISIS" fighters and committed enough atrocities before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_mujahideen http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33345618 The US supported these Muslims the same way they supported Mujaheddin in Afghanistan before http://www.counterpunch.org/1998/01/15/how-jimmy-carter-and-... and just how they effectively supported Al-Qaeda and other extremists in Libya later, or all the Islamic extremist "rebels" in Syria. The US has a long history of using the Muslim fanatics to destroy the countries the leaders of which it doesn't favor, like Assad's now. The Yugoslavia events were of course with more actors just like in today's Syria it's not just Assad and ISIS. The basis of US foreign policy is the commitment to prevent the rise of powers capable of constraining Washington’s unilateral action. Washington is not opposed to terrorism. Washington has been purposely creating terrorism for many years. Weakening Russia is one of the decades-long tasks, read honest Brzezinski in the article from 1998 I've linked. |
