>>>>>Believe me, I know that this logic works. We were bombed for what Milošević did. And we even did go the extra step to distance ourselves from him and his cronies, but the media just wouldn't listen. The collective responsibility can be a bitch, but the world applies it left and right.
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>>>Never understood what they hoped to achieve with that senseless bombing.
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>>Stopping "ethnic cleansing"? I never had the impression the intent was to punish all Serbs; it was to stop Mladic and his henchmen from eradicating other ethnic groups.
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>>Maybe I misunderstand what you and/or Dragan meant.
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>And how does one achieve that with throwing bombs ??

There is that school of thought (which came into its own during VietNam, iirc) that you can bomb your opposition into submission. That worked so well in getting the North Vietnamese to the peace talks table, didn't it?

Please note that I don't agree with that school of thought. I'm more in the "Build a big wall around half the area and let the people what want to fight fight it out - leave the rest of the area for the people who don't so they can go on with their lives." school.