# The war in Yugoslavia **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 28, 1999, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-in-yugoslavia/1513 "1999-05-28T18:25:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 1999, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-in-yugoslavia/1513/21 "1999-07-02T20:39:00Z")
Like you see the Kosovo crisis have coused more problem than they solved. Now NATO has to have an army on standby for years to come. They have to proteckt the Serbs from the Albanians, the Albanians from the Serbs, the public from the croocs, the police from the mobs, and finnally a region from Serbia… Tell me where is the gain??? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 1999, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-in-yugoslavia/1513/22 "1999-07-03T06:11:00Z")
Thor, The gain my friend, is when the the powder keg is put out. When the open conflict is stoped from spreading to other countries all over Balkans and eventually all over Europe. Yes I know it is a bit far fetched, but it is nice sometimes to play it safe * * * Cogito Ergo Vroom I think therefore I ride fast… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 1999, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-in-yugoslavia/1513/23 "1999-07-03T16:59:00Z")
But Hannu, what has it solved. I mean do the inhabitants of the Balcan region like the others any better, is Russia or China on better termes with the western world. ## These are questions who will come up if this conflict escalates into a much larger crisis!!! Thor ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 1999, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-in-yugoslavia/1513/24 "1999-07-04T05:31:00Z")
> [@](#): > > “Ethnic Cleansing” is a term coined by Serbs themselves. This fact alone speaks volumes about the mindset of the Serbian nationalists in the Balkins. Following is an excerpt from the news item which introduced the term ‘ethnic cleansing’ to the US media (I hope I am not breaching the copyright rules :))– “The nationalists have a two-point platform, first to establish what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and then the merger with Albania to form a greater Albania,” said Becir Hoti, a Kosovo Communist Party official and an ethnic Albanian. (reported in New York Times, 12 July 1982) If the Serbs did, in fact, coin the term themselves, it was to describe what they were **suffering**. ---
**Author:** ![CuBiSt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CuBiSt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuBiSt)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-in-yugoslavia/1513/25 "2004-05-23T04:08:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Is this war just another religious conflict? Why don’t we hear that it is in the media? How about the term “Ethnic clensing” it almost sounds “nice”! Any comments? I think it is still going on ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-in-yugoslavia/1513/26 "2004-05-23T04:17:47Z")
Zombie Thread! Zombie Thread!!! ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-in-yugoslavia/1513/27 "2004-05-23T04:21:59Z")
> [@CuBiSt](#): > > I think it is still going on ☹ I don’t know if you’re doing this on purpose or what, but it’s really frowned upon around here to keep bumping up threads from long ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-in-yugoslavia/1513.md?page=1)