There are a vast number of different issues involved, but two of them stand out:
1. The U.S. should never intervene in any conflict unless there is a vital national interest at stake. There was no vital national interest in the Serbian-Croatian-Albanian conflict. None. Typical Democratic warmongering hypocrisy in involving the military in places that have no vital national interest (Clinton = Serbia, Somalia, Haiti, etc.), while complaining about those conflicts in which the U.S. does have a real vital national interest.
Seriously, why intervene in Serbia but then not intervene in the Rwandan Genocide, where a few thousand soldiers could have prevented the death of upwards of a million Tutsis by machete-waving Hutus? Explain that.
2. The Serbs were our staunch allies during WWII and loved Americans because of that historical tie. But we involved ourselves in a conflict where we have no vital national interest at stake and then took the side of people who already hate us (Albanian Muslims), so that we can alienate a traditional ally (the Serbs) and then have both sides hate us. The Serbs stand at the gateway to Europe and were the victims of waves of Islamic invasions into Europe and suffered grievously under the heavy yoke of the Ottoman empire. Historical enmity exists there. We should have stayed out.
1. The U.S. should never intervene in any conflict unless there is a vital national interest at stake. There was no vital national interest in the Serbian-Croatian-Albanian conflict. None. Typical Democratic warmongering hypocrisy in involving the military in places that have no vital national interest (Clinton = Serbia, Somalia, Haiti, etc.), while complaining about those conflicts in which the U.S. does have a real vital national interest.
Seriously, why intervene in Serbia but then not intervene in the Rwandan Genocide, where a few thousand soldiers could have prevented the death of upwards of a million Tutsis by machete-waving Hutus? Explain that.
2. The Serbs were our staunch allies during WWII and loved Americans because of that historical tie. But we involved ourselves in a conflict where we have no vital national interest at stake and then took the side of people who already hate us (Albanian Muslims), so that we can alienate a traditional ally (the Serbs) and then have both sides hate us. The Serbs stand at the gateway to Europe and were the victims of waves of Islamic invasions into Europe and suffered grievously under the heavy yoke of the Ottoman empire. Historical enmity exists there. We should have stayed out.