Kosovo Conflict Essay Research Paper The Balkans

Kosovo Conflict Essay, Research Paper

The Balkans have been a very unstable region for hundreds of years. The reason

for contention is because of ethnic origin and disputes of which race owns which

land.. That is the reason for the dispute over Kosovo is because of the same

thing. This is a very complicated situation, that I don’t really know everything

about. I just kind of know the basics. Back in the 1500 hundreds, the Serbs

conquered the Kosovo area, slowly and gradually over the years the Ethnic

Albanians started occupying the territory, until before the bombing began,

Kosovo consisted of 90% Ethnic Albanians. Well, the Serbs didn’t like this,

especially Milosevic who is the ruler over Serbia. Since Kosovo has many

historical ties to the Serbs, and the Serbs conquered that territory back in the

1500 hundreds, Milosevic wanted to reclaim their rightful territory. And his

method to do this was through "ethnic cleansing" Kosovo. Stats: -Milosevic

has been doing this subtlety for years, and as of last fall has increased his

killing of "ethnic Albainians". To date, there are now 200,00 people

dead as a result of Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing. That is probably a very low

figure. 100,000 Kosovar men are now missing, which might be the reason for the

"mass graves" that have been pictured. Nearly one half a million

people have been expelled from their homes, many forced out at gunpoint, while

the Serbian troops destroyed their identity papers, making them unable to return

to their homes. This flood of refugees have overwhelmed neighboring countries,

who are economically weak, and are unable to take in all the refugees. 600,000

Kosovars are surviving off the land in mountains nearby. Controversy: -You might

wonder what business the U.S. has in a country on the other side of the world,

where it seems to be no political interest whatsoever. That is a big

controversery of whether or not NATO should be involved. At first I was against

NATO involvement for just those reasons, why should NATO get involved where

there would be no benefit to us, because this was more of a humanitarian issue.

But as I researched this and read more about it, I am in favor of NATO

involvement. I believe that we should do everything possible to help stop

Tyrants from killing innocent people. Which is what was and is occuring in

Kosovo. -But I am against NATO in who, why and how NATO is handling this

conflict. Who: -NATO is very hypocritical by saying they got involved in this

situation purely because of humanitarian reasons. There have been many occasions

where the U.S. looked the other way on bigger humanitarian disasters. In West

Africa, there was a similar "ethnic cleansing" situation where the

U.S. did not get involved. Why: -In the begging, where NATO was on the verge of

bombing Kosovo, Clinton spoke in a public meeting about why we were getting

involved. He said, trying to get public approval, that the reason the U.S. is

getting involved is largely an economical reason. He said that this war would

help the U.S. financially. By getting involved, we would become partners with

Europe, thus increasing a trade relationship. That is what I am against. I am

against the U.S./Clinton thinking more about how much money we can get, rather

than saving innocent lives from being brutally murdered. -After the bombing had

dragged on for longer than expected, which was only about a week in some

people’s opinion, the objectives were stated as follows: "To stop ethnic

cleansing, stop flood of refugees into nieghboring countries, stop NATO from

splitting, prevent Milosevic from strengthening his grip on the Balkan

region." And, after over 2 months of involvement, NATO has not been able to

meet those objectives. -Bob Bennet said that the current bombing has "been

no help to the Albanians and Macedonians, who have seen hundreds of thousands of

refugees flood across the borders into their ill-equipped countries. It has been

of no help to NATO, an alliance that has seen its military stocks drawn down to

dangerously low levels, with no effects on the atrocities going on in the

killing fields." -One speculated reason to get involved was because of the

military stategic point in the Balkans. After NATO wins, the U.S. would put

troops in the area to secure it. That was one reason why Russia is against U.S.

involvement. How: This is my biggest controversy to NATO’s actions. NATO’s

strategy to stop Milosevic from killing innocent people, was to bomb him into

submission. Military officials predicted this "war" would last less

than two weeks. NATO underestimated milosevics tolerance. (VIETNAM CARTOON) Many

people compare this war to vietnam. The U.S. underestimated what Vietnamise were

willing to take. Also, both sides did not fully explore the possiblity of a

peacefu

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