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...Then, like most pop-cultural fashions, this one started to pale. Maybe the talk was too hot (listeners can't stay angry forever). Or political issues lost some urgency in a time when the economy was robust and, for most Americans, the rest of the globe ceased to exist (Bosnia, Belfast, world hunger... yawn). On radio, the sports-talk format took hold; so, late at night, did the extraterrestrial conspiracy theories of Art Bell and his guests. The Radio Right needed a new hook, and a close presidential election was just the thing to energize the commentators and their faithful...
Bush generally takes a relatively isolationist stance, questioning the need to maintain peacekeeping forces in Bosnia or allocate funds overseas to address global concerns...
...glad your story noted the atrocities suffered by the Serbs themselves. I am not a Serb but a member of the U.S. Air Force who served in Bosnia for four months. While there, I witnessed the blatant brushing aside of Bosnian Serbs' needs by the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe because of political bias. The Bosnian war was a huge land grab by Croats, Serbs and Muslims; there were no heroes on any side. Anti-Serb bias in the U.S. media and in the government has done more damage to our credibility in this region than any bombs...
...Bush opposed congressional Republican efforts to mandate early U.S. withdrawal from the Balkans, his top foreign policy adviser made clear last week he plans to pull U.S. peacekeeping troops out of there. More egregiously, he said during the second debate, "I hope our European friends become the peacekeepers in Bosnia." But they already are. U.S. forces account for just 4,500 of the 20,000 peacekeepers in Bosnia...
...Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Bosnia, the Philippines, even possibly New Jersey. Pockets of Bin Laden supporters have been unearthed wherever foreign veterans of the Afghan war are to be found, and they are believed to have created cells in some 50 countries. Last week, a New York court convicted Ali Mohammed, a sergeant in the U.S. Army and a former Egyptian army major of doing intelligence work for Bin Laden's networks. And the Algerians arrested last December for allegedly smuggling explosives into the U.S. from Canada are suspected of working with Bin Laden, even though they were ostensibly supporters...