The Kosovo war was based on false statements about what was going on in Kosovo. There was no genocide, there was a terrorist group called the KLA fighting for an ethnically pure Kosovo and a Serb army trying to keep a breakaway province from eroding their terrirtorial integrity.
The Serbs were guilty of a lot of bad things in Bosnia, but they were right in Kosovo. We never got over the image of Milosevic as the bad guy and assumed he could do no right because of his atrocious behavior in Bosnia. But he actually was the good guy here.
Where I disagree with Bono is that we targeted civilians. Its true that we bombed civlian infrastructure like bridges, but this is also military infrastructure. It has dual purposes.
The war was also poorly executed, leaving hundreds of thousands of Kosovar refugees (the innocent Kosovars got hurt while the terrorist militias got air cover) running into Macedonia and Albania, destabilizing the whole region unnecessarily.
No. There WAS the genocide in Kosovo. It would have been much worse without the NATO intervention. What I don't understand is how was Milosevic the bad guy in Bosnia and then suddenly the good guy in Kosovo? He's one big war criminal who should be hanged.
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/Kosovo/Kosovo-Photographs.htmhttp://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/Kosovo/Kosovo-Massacres.htmA one great effort of the Kosovo war was that it speeded up the collapse of the Milosevic Regime.
