First, Dopeweasle keep the verse in context it is " the LOVE of money that is the root of all evil" Money in itself is not evil it is amoral, it can be used for good or bad. Yes the USA is capitalistic but it is also altrusitc, The USA gives more $ in aid, debt relief, pure money, grants, donation, 15 billion comitted to AIDS in Africa through Bill Clinton ( you can bet that he will skim his share some way like most politicans) . I don't agree with how every dollar is Spent. I hate Partisan Politics. I disagree with many of President Bush goals.
You speak of the Media twisting the truth, Here is some propaganda that many belive hook, line and sinker and you can see it on many a Bumper stickers, "NOBODY DIED WHEN CLINTON LIED" Is a farce in the wag the dog "war on the Serbs , it is estimated that 1500 people died , the econmic and cultral destruction that took place from the "Clintons War " Here is an article you can read
A President Accused of Rape Destroys a Nation Because of Accusations of Rape
By Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com)
April 29, 1999
In war, we are told, one needs to know one's enemy. That is true. In the current war in Yugoslavia, it is equally important that we also know our friends. Who are the Albanians we are now being encouraged send ground troops to defend in Kosovo? We are now being encouraged to destroy the country and culture of Yugoslavia because we have been TOLD that "Serbs are raping Albanian women." Why this should be a great concern to an American population which insisted it president who was accused of raping women should remain in office without punishment is a matter which personally escapes me.
1997 NY Time Article Warned Us About Albanian Efforts to Ethnically Cleanse Kosovo of Serbs However, it we take the position that destroying ancient architectural masterpieces, apartment buildings and passenger trains with million dollar missiles is morally required of us because of alleged atrocities of Serbs against Albanian women, perhaps we need to take a look at the alleged atrocities of Albanians against Serb women.
Twelve years ago David Binder, on November 1, 1987, writing from Belgrade, wrote about the ethnic strife that was beginning to engulf Kosovo because of policies of the ALBANIANS in Kosovo. Albania, under the leadership of Enver Hoxha, consistently aligned itself with the most repressive advocates of Communism. Hoxha was a founder (1941) of the Albanian Communist party (Albanian Labor party from 1948), General secretary of the party from 1943, he was premier (1946-54) of Albania after its proclamation as a republic. Hoxha was also minister of foreign affairs (1946-53) and commander in chief of the army (1944-54). He maintained close ties with the Soviet Union until its rift with Communist China in 1961; he then joined Beijing in its ideological struggle against Moscow and was branded as a Stalinist by Soviet and other Communist leaders. He stopped Albanian participation in the Warsaw Pact and the Council for Economic Assistance (Comecon). In 1977, Hoxha broke ties with China, protesting that country's liberalization and the U.S.-China rapprochement. Under Hoxha's rule, Albania remained one of the least economically developed and one of the most isolated countries in Europe. Hoxha died in office in 1985, and was succeeded by Ramiz Alia.
Binder warned in a Special to the New York Times, from Belgrade, November 1, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition, Section 1; Part 1, Page 14, Column, "In Yugoslavia, Rising Ethnic Strife Brings Fears of Worse Civil Conflict" that "Portions of southern Yugoslavia have reached such a state of ethnic friction that Yugoslavs have begun to talk of the horrifying possibility of ''civil war'' in a land that lost one-tenth of its population, or 1.7 million people, in World War II. "The current hostilities pit separatist-minded ethnic Albanians against the various Slavic populations of Yugoslavia and occur at all levels of society, from the highest officials to the humblest peasants. A young Army conscript of ethnic Albanian origin shot up his barracks, killing four sleeping Slavic bunkmates and wounding six others. The army says it has uncovered hundreds of subversive ethnic Albanian cells in its ranks. Some arsenals have been raided."
In the article Binder listed the following factors which he believed would lead to the civil war now under way between the Albanian communists and the Serbs:
Vicious Insults
Ethnic Albanians in the Government have manipulated public funds and regulations to take over land belonging to Serbs. And politicians have exchanged vicious insults. Slavic Orthodox churches have been attacked, and flags have been torn down. Wells have been poisoned and crops burned. Slavic boys have been knifed, and some young ethnic Albanians have been told by their elders to rape Serbian girls. Ethnic Albanians comprise the fastest growing nationality in Yugoslavia and are expected soon to become its third largest, after the Serbs and Croats.
Radicals' Goals
The goal of the radical nationalists among them, one said in an interview, is an ''ethnic Albania that includes western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, part of southern Serbia, Kosovo and Albania itself.'' That includes large chunks of the republics that make up the southern half of Yugoslavia. Other ethnic Albanian separatists admit to a vision of a greater Albania governed from Pristina in southern Yugoslavia rather than Tirana, the capital of neighboring Albania.
There is no evidence that the hard-line Communist Government in Tirana is giving them material assistance. The principal battleground is the region called Kosovo, a high plateau ringed by mountains that is somewhat smaller than New Jersey. Ethnic Albanians there make up 85 percent of the population of 1.7 million. The rest are Serbians and Montenegrins.
Worst Strife in Years
As Slavs flee the protracted violence, Kosovo is becoming what ethnic Albanian nationalists have been demanding for years, and especially strongly since the bloody rioting by ethnic Albanians in Pristina in 1981 - an ''ethnically pure'' Albanian region, a ''Republic of Kosovo' ' in all but name. The violence, a journalist in Kosovo said, is escalating to ''the worst in the last seven years.'' Many Yugoslavs blame the troubles on the ethnic Albanians, but the matter is more complex in a country with as many nationalities and religions as
Yugoslavia's and involves economic development, law, politics, families and flags. As recently as 20 years ago, the Slavic majority treated ethnic Albanians as inferiors to be employed as hewers of wood and carriers of heating coal. The ethnic Albanians, who now number 2 million, were officially deemed a minority, not a constituent nationality, as they are today. Were the ethnic tensions restricted to Kosovo, Yugoslavia's problems with its Albanian nationals might be more manageable. But some Yugoslavs and some ethnic Albanians believe the struggle has spread far beyond Kosovo. Macedonia, a republic to the south with a population of 1.8 million, has a restive ethnic Albanian minority of 350,000.
''We've already lost western Macedonia to the Albanians,'' said a member of the Yugoslav party presidium, explaining that the ethnic minority had driven the Slavic Macedonians out of the region. Attacks on Slavs Last summer, the authorities in Kosovo said they documented 40 ethnic Albanian attacks on Slavs in two months. In the last two years, 320 ethnic Albanians have been sentenced for political crimes, nearly half of them characterized as severe. In one incident, Fadil Hoxha, once the leading politician of ethnic Albanian origin in Yugoslavia, joked at an official dinner in Prizren last year that Serbian women should be used to satisfy potential ethnic Albanian rapists. After his quip was reported this October, Serbian women in Kosovo protested, and Mr. Hoxha was dismissed from the Communist Party.
As a precaution, the central authorities dispatched 380 riot police officers to the Kosovo region for the first time in four years. Officials in Belgrade view the ethnic Albanian challenge as imperiling the foundations of the multinational experiment called federal Yugoslavia, which consists of six republics and two provinces. 'Lebanonizing' of Yugoslavia High-ranking officials have spoken of the ''Lebanonizing'' of their country and have compared its troubles to the strife in Northern Ireland. Borislav Jovic, a member of the Serbian party's presidency, spoke in an interview of the prospect of ''two Albanias, one north and one south, like divided Germany or Korea,'' and of ''practically the breakup of Yugoslavia.'' He added: ''Time is working against us.''
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