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To get a sense of the relatively muted Republican response to Obama on Libya, here are a few statements by leading Republicans on Kosovo under Clinton.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott: “The genocide has been taking place. The damage has been done. Now and only now they prepare to take serious action. I think that is curious.”
“I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning…I didn’t think we had done enough in the diplomatic area.”
House Majority Leader Dick Armey: The Kosovo deployment is “poorly considered and unlikely to achieve our desired ends.”
Senate Majority Whip Don Nickles: “Once the bombing commenced, I think then Milosevic unleashed his forces, and then that’s when the slaughtering and the massive ethnic cleansing really started.”
House Majority Whip Tom DeLay: “Bombing a sovereign nation for ill-defined reasons with vague objectives undermines the American stature in the world. The international respect and trust for America has diminished every time we casually let the bombs fly.”
“The administration has no plan to do anything but go to Kosovo, hold hands with the two sides and hope they behave when we leave. But of course they won’t. The killing and the mayhem will continue as soon as NATO pulls out.”
Sen. Rick Santorum: “President Clinton is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation’s armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy.”
Sen. Richard Lugar: “This is President Clinton’s war, and when he falls flat on his face, that’s his problem.”
Now, a number of Republicans — including former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and Sen. John McCain — supported Clinton. But none of the above Republicans were exactly back-benchers.
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Dixie Pixie| 3.21.11 @ 5:25PM
So, The Republicans have an institutional bias to avoid any hint of being and "Opposition Party".
What a big surprise.
Has anyone even heard a thing against Obama's illegal Libyan War by the Republican Leadership.
In what way is the Republicans an opposition party.
All American American| 3.21.11 @ 5:50PM
I think they're all a-scared of being called "racists" or something like that.
Dixie Pixie| 3.21.11 @ 6:31PM
That is what is so scary.
Full Stalinist Terror did not produce this level of conformity.
The Republican Party is a big party,so at lest one politician should have spoken out.
Instead the deafening sound of crickets chirping was heard from sea to sea.
Alan Brooks| 3.22.11 @ 8:26AM
The GOP can only do worse than the Dems.
What I dislike about Antle is he knows the Repuglican Party will elect another post-Reagan nothingburger in '16- or even next year.
Antle just cannot admit it.
Dixie Pixie| 3.22.11 @ 10:15AM
Alan...Your Psychic skills are a wonderment to your many cats.
All American American| 3.21.11 @ 5:49PM
Here's a thought. Instead of fighting FOR islam howsabout we try fighting AGAINST it? I mean, they've been fighting Christendom for 1400 years huh?
Occam's Tool| 3.21.11 @ 8:32PM
Triple A, Not PC---naughty, naughty Boo.
This will not end well. Razor line: 1) Rebels will be MORE anti-American than Q, and 2) Even More Aggressive against US interests.
It is always Darkest before the Dawn.
All American American| 3.22.11 @ 11:31AM
Its way past time to stop the PC nonsense with respect to islam. Yet here at Amspec more chickenhawks are squawkin' about intervention in Syria now.
What's that old expression, be careful what you wish for? Yeah, it might do some folks on here good to keep that in mind.
Bob K.| 3.21.11 @ 7:09PM
I don't see any comparison at all between the two conflicts except that in Kosovo we were helping Muslims kill Christians and in Libya we are helping Muslims so they can later kill Christians and the same political party is in charge in both instances.
Marc Jeric| 3.21.11 @ 7:36PM
The problem there is the Serbs and their megalomania. For example they teach in their schools that the Serbs won both the WWI and WWII. They also celebrate the Turkish victory over the Serbian kingdom in 1376 as their national holiday. That defeat resulted in Serbia being a Turkish slave pashaluk for 450 years. As a result of the Versailles Conference they became masters of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Macedonia, Voyvodina - where they exercise absolute tyranical power just like their Turkish masters. They also transformed themselves from royalists to communists by some strange addiction to power after the WWII. The Serbs need a thorough transformation - they committed atrocities of mass murder of Croatian, Bosnian, and Macedonian civilian population, destruction of churches and historical museums in these countries, gulag-like mass executions - so-called "chistkas" - racial cleansings.
Bob K.| 3.21.11 @ 10:37PM
Muslims haven't done any of that stuff?
Bob K.| 3.22.11 @ 10:23AM
But seriously, that is an awfully expansive condemnation of one cultural segment of the Balkans, don't you think? Is their Orthodox Christian Religion a factor in it? Didn't the transfer of the Balkans to Communism under Tito and after WWII include all the other regions also? Didn't the Serbs resist the Nazi's in WW II while the Croatians and others didn't and didn't they actually take part in the same type of atrocities against the Serbs and others?
This is all Ancient History today, including the wars of the 20th Century and the Treaty's "resolving" them but the historical memories and hatreds linger on!
How are we Americans, children of immigrants who came here to escape them, supposed to resolve them and why should we?
Derek Leaberry| 3.22.11 @ 9:09AM
Although no decent person can argue in favor of "ethnic cleansing", clearly an Islamic Kosovo is not in the best interests of Europe, Western Civilization and the United States. Hopefully the gathering implosion of the economies of the West will allow Serbia to regain Kosovo, ancient territory of Serbia's.
Craig Goodrich| 3.22.11 @ 4:08PM
"The Serbs need a thorough transformation - they committed atrocities of mass murder of Croatian, Bosnian, and Macedonian civilian population, destruction of churches and historical museums in these countries, gulag-like mass executions - so-called "chistkas" - racial cleansings."
This is complete nonsense, and reflects the habitual projection by Croats and Albanians. In fact, during WW2 the Serbs constantly fought the Nazis and sheltered Jews, while Croatia was run by the Ustasha (do the name Jasenovac ring a bell?). The current regime in Kosovo has been destroying and vandalizing Orthodox churches and monasteries since the beginning, and has driven out thousands of Roma and Muslim Croats.
And as to "ethnic cleansing", it was to stop continuous anti-Serb violence by Kosovar Albanians that Milosevic cracked down in the first place. There is not now and never has been the slightest shred of evidence of mass murder by Serb forces in Kosovo, or of any participation by Serb regulars in the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian civil war.