Reply #107: knitter4democracy, I commented earlier this morning on your thread regarding [View All]

[NCarolinawoman]

a beautiful letter you wrote and had published.

Please understand that General Clark is a practicing progressive Christian who takes his faith very seriously. A friend of mine who lives in DC and is involved in one of the "stop the genocide in Darfur" groups refers to Clark as "the Humanitarian General". To shed some light on this, General Clark has even used the term, "the pornography of war".

I read the links you posted and appreciate the effort you went to, but
I never saw any evidence that churches were actually being targeted. Mistakes were certainly made, as in all wars. And yes, there is often not a let-up on religious holidays. A good example is George Washington crossing the Delaware to attack on Christmas Eve.

The culprit in all of this is ultimately Milosevic, who brutishly manipulated hs own people. I believe that is why Clinton, Gore, and 19 European Nations wanted General Clark to take this on. I know, as you mentioned, there were very many good Serbs who couldn't stand Milosevic and got caught up in this thing against their will. Here is an excerpt from the Kosovo Diaries:

"A Serbian officer ordered a soldier
to shoot a 5 year old Albanian child. The soldier refused. The officer screamed the order again. The soldier answered that it would be better to die himself. The order was repeated and so was his refusal. The officer shot the soldier and then the child. A Serb died for an Albanian!"

http://www.mrds.org/Regions/easterneurope/kosova/KOSOVA.html