Ron Paul

Mr. Paul is correct to question the purpose and credibility of UN meddling. However, he gives only cursory reference to NATO aggression. Surely Mr. Paul must realize that the entire campaign to destabilize Jugoslavia was driven and financed almost entirely by the United States. As a member of the legislative body that finances military adventurism, he should be bringing US responsibility for the Balkans crisis to the fore and not the lapdog UN.

~ Dorde Stojanovic

Eric Garris replies:

While Mr. Paul may not have dealt with the issue in this article to the extent you would have liked, he has been Congress' leading opponent of US/NATO/UN meddling in the Balkans. I would call your attention to these pieces by Rep. Paul, which make clear his position:

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2001/tst070901.htm
http://www.house.gov/Paul/tst/tst2000/tst050100.htm
http://www.house.gov/Paul/congrec/congrec99/cr041299.htm

Dorde Stojanovic replies:

Thank you for the articles. I stand corrected.

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Underlings & Cohorts

[Regarding Justin Raimondo's column, "Canonizing St. Slobo":]

I will say that the graves found in Belgrade could be the real thing, but before we jump to that conclusion should we not consider some of the other options. With Milosevic's arrest and transfer it is apparent what money and threats can do. I would imagine there is no shortage of former Milosevic underlings and cohorts who will read any script and produce any paperwork needed so they don't end up at the Hague. And, although it is difficult to fake or falsify what they claim they have found in Belgrade, let's not jump to any conclusions before the facts are in.

~ Ratko Cucuz, North Carolina, USA

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Important Fact

The most important fact from Milosevic's biography ...is that, before being elected a president, he had stayed in the US for more than 7 years. The two events were not successive by a pure chance. Before being "elected" for the first time, he had enough money to buy votes (I witnessed that myself). Not to mention months and months of daily street protests...

...Southern Slavs (=Yugoslavs) weren't united by Communism for the first time. They have been marrying and divorcing over the past centuries many times, first in a feudal kingdom, then a monarchy, and they will most probably be united again by Democracy and again say, "Let bygones be bygones".... Systems change but not the historic pattern because the Slavs speak extremely similar languages and there are only slight differences in their cultures.

What has preceded each uniting by any system has been the same enemy, the Turkish Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the Third Reich – which leaves us with a presumption that the next one might be the "unbeatable" jihad tendencies, whatever dirty game Milosevic is (still) playing with some western NWO tendencies, including the Hague Tribunal.

~ Snezana J.