What should the international community do about Libya?

No I have not been to Kosovo. Yes, in fact it is an Albanian who first got me interested in the conflict, giving me in my opinion the most neutral account. Indeed, when I spoke to many Serbians about it I had to take their accounts with a pinch of salt, however there were a few who I met who told me at length the horrendous behaviour and actions of Milosevic and co, as much

I appreciate, if what you say about seeing it first hand is true, that this is a very touchy subject and I thank you for being able to engage with me about it. Alas my weakness is that I am going on the accounts of people but mainly what I have read in books and on the internet. Maybe if you would be willing to make contact through pming me because as I say this is a topic that I am very interested in and I would love to hear your experiences on it.

Again I am sorry if I have caused you offence, but from what I have read and heard, the KLA funded their operations through drugs and smuggling other contraband, as well as the unsubstantiated allegation of organ smuggling. I have also heard reports of large groups of Serbians being killed in one go Serbs being kicked out of their homes etc. Admittedly I am sure that when it comes to numbers, the Serbians were more deadly, but surely you cannot deny that at least some elements within the KLA were equally as into ethnic cleansing of lands they believed belonged to them as the Serbian Government was? Please correct me with evidence, but Operation Horseshoe prior to Nato bombing was primarily concerned with the forced uprooting of Serbian families as opposed to a systematic use of genocide? As for the Bosnian genocide, I have little idea about it bar it was related somewhat to Milosevic's idea of a "Greater Serbia".

I hope you do not take this as an attack on Albanians, or Serbian people. I have had the pleasure of meeting both and having flown straight from the UK, I was overwhelmed with the friendliness of both peoples. My interest in this conflict was triggered by travelling through the region and the base of my knowledge is built on what I was told by people from both sides.

As I say, pm me with a reply because although I find it interesting, it isnt relevant to the OP.

No I have not been to Kosovo. .

Did you get pickpocket or robbed at gun point ? The Kosovans in my area are all beggars and thieves

I must object. A systematic attempt to kill Kosovans was not actually implemented until after NATO decided to bomb Belgrade. Not to say that cleansing Kosovo through forced evacuation was right, but the killing aspect which is often used to support acts of intervention was actually encouraged by America's actions. Also how can it be justified to take one side when the KLA were engaging in equally horrific acts that amounted to massacres, rape and killings of Serb-Kosovans? In fact the KLA were touted as freedom fighters despite their crimes against innocent people and such sub-divisions as the 'Gnjilane Group' whose aim was to ethnically cleanse ethnic Serbians from the town. As well as in Gnjiliane, elsewhere over 1000 Serbs and Romani's went missing and over 847 reported killed whilst NATO forces were in control.

I agree with you that when looking at such scenarios with an already existing bias towards America can distort any decision on the matter, however I believe using intervention in Kosovo at least to be a poor example regarding the many questions to arise from it. Especially how the weaker yet just as vicious and bloodthirsty side was supported against the other, who shared the same goals of ethnically cleansing Kosovo.

Sorry I don't really have time to reply in kind to your post. (I am actually taking an extended break from this forum )

Also I think the user below has started to cover what I would about your post. It sounds like Chomsky's apologetics for his original anti-American stance on action against Serbia. (He still cannot come to admit that, in keeping with what he professes are his principles, he was wrong.)

Wouldn't you say the consequences of todays action by the west speaks for itself with regards to intervention?

As much as I respect you, I do think you go on about "anti-americanism" an awful lot, even to dismiss at least partially valid queries as to their behaviour. I am not for or against Intervention and I believe having fixed views on it is a bad approach.