Not true. You ARE required to respect it, if you agreed to sign multilateral conventions, such is the Charter of UN. But what your government is doing is creating precedents for Uncle Sam only not to respect international law. Such precedents are legal from your point of view, but illegal considering the international law.

Small arms and armored vehicles are funny in comparison with true armies consisted of heavy artillery. It is not enough to train Albanians to use planes and tanks, they have to owe them in order to use them when necessary. That's the difference. Uncle Sam is playing Albanians only, due to bad experience he gained with supporting Al Qaeda back in the 1980's.

The resolution says this: Serbian army (not Serbs) - get out of Kosovo, but you can leave 999 soldiers and police officers to protect some areas populated by Serbs (which foxy NATO never allowed). The resolution also states that Kosovo is an integral part of FRY to which Republic of Serbia is the legal successor. NATO was supposed to stay temporarily in Kosovo until peace, law and order are restored, and then leave the province, but continue to monitor the situation. After overthrow of Milosevic and electing democratic government, full autonomy would be restored to Kosovo Albanians and minority rights would be guaranteed to them. And everything would be cool. But no! Uncle Sam did not build bases in Kosovo to leave. That's the problem. Albanians will be facing the exact same problem in the future after they get sick and tired of Yankees and after they become sober of "their" victory.

When that happens, you will be facing one huge hit in the face by the boomerang (Ted mentioned another term used by CIA, but I can't remember it now).

The UN wasn't trying to de-populate Kosovo of Serbs; their intention was to stop the de-population of Kosovans by the Serbs. And this was achieved by booting out the Serbs' Army - cleverly this was done by bombing strategic targets within Serbia using guided weapon

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What's strategic about bombing a civilian train full of people?

Or bombing a market in Nis with cluster bombs and killing dozens of civilians?

What's strategic about bombing power plants and denying people to use power - isn't that violation of human rights and a desire to send people into stone age?

Don't talk to me about this NATO crappy propaganda. I was here when NATO bombed us. And yes, they were deliberately bombing some civilian targets in order to force Milosevic to capitulate.

Are cluster bombs "guided weapons"? The thing is forbidden for Christ's sake... And NATO threw it on a market in the center of Nis - the second largest city in Serbia.

Nato cluster bombs 'kill 15' in hospital and crowded market



NATO cluster bombs spray death

What are we talking about.The Greath Britan has killed milions only in the 19 century.
They have occupated the half of the world.

AmusedToDeath - Why do Serbs suddenly talk about International law?

Serbia doesn't listen to international law, only when it fits them! *bleeping* hypocrites!

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Serbia always respected international law! Always! Name one situation when Serbia broke int. law!

Come and get her.


I think the fact that she is American has more to do with it than the fact that she is Jewish.



Having a superior culture makes that easy.


Please post your evidence that the US has veto powers within the Iraqi political system.


I disagree. there is no precedent for that.



My fellow Republicans are not the ones making the claim. You are.

So you are saying you have no actual evidence that the US has seized a single drop of oil in Iraq?



Once again, you have no evidence that Indians do not have the same rights I do in America.

So Marko's implication that Indians do not have rights in America is wrong. If they have the same rights as me, and have equal representation, then how are we not a democracy?



So what? When have I ever made excuses for previous versions of America?

I have openly stated on this forum, MANY times, that previous versions of America are morally inferior to modern America. That the Founding Fathers were morally inferior to us as well. I've never equivocated on that. Unlike most conservatives, I don't worship the Founding Fathers a gleaming perfect icons.

Yes, they were wrong. Yes, it was a long fight. But in the end, democracy won out. Democracy prevailed because it was a superior ideology. It will prevail in your area of the world too eventually, and for the same reason.

Democracy is superior to all competing ideologies we have seen so far. The empirical evidence makes that clear.


Says who?

Iraq has already disproven that claim.



Explain why the UN has any more authority than NATO.



Oppression alone is grounds for military action. If Germany started stuffing Jews into ovens again, we'd bomb them to. Even if they never attacked any other nation.



Exactly. The UN is not the boss of the world. They are merely a forum.



Hardware-wise, yes, our military is larger. We have more tanks and planes and ships than any military in the world...even numerically.



No argument here. Which is why the UN should be dissolved IMO.



Says who?



If we don't respect it, why do we have the right to veto? Why do the US, CHina, Russia, ect.. get permanent veto powers, but the rest of you do not?

That ALONE should be evidence of how inherently unfair the UN is.



I agree. Which is why I would support arming Kosovo more heavily in the near future.

But small arms and armored vehicles are a good start.


That is your own interpretation. Is is not explicitly stated anywhere that Kosovo is part of Serbia. That is merely an assumption you are making based on your own interpretation of succession.

We do not share your interpretation.



You have yet to provide proof that the train was our target.


Because it denies the enemy the use of power as well. That is not obvious to you?



No. Technically it is not under these circumstances.


Opinion noted.

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If I understand things correctly we are not. Specifically that while the international courts have the ability to throw fines and stuff at us they have no legal ability to actually make the US pay. And so we don't.

And 1244 did indicate that Kosovo should reamain part of Yugoslavia/Serbia but it did not promise it and indicated that the situation would have to be resolved. If Russia and China hadn't been sitting on the situation with a veto a new resolution would have passed creating a fully legal Kosovo.

Such nonsense! They were far more superior to you in terms of morality.

Why do you even try to discuss politics if you don't have basic knowledge of international political institutions and organizations?

Russia and China are powers to respect. Russia is the largest country in the world and China is the most populated country in the world. Both of them don't agree with Uncle Sam. Don't you think something is wrong here?

By the way, the Security Council itself was created to function the way it does. If a major world power doesn't agree - it can veto something. This time, you have two powers that don't agree.