[The Decider]

Quote by: grandpa Look, I didn't absolve Serbs from blame. I would actually consider "Serbian ultranationalists" as my enemies.

That's good to hear. I missed that sentiment in your OP.

Quote by: grandpa However, this attitude that Serbs were the only ones slaughtering people

Full stop! Where did I EVER say that Serbs alone slaughtered people? Where did the US government or NATO EVER make such a claim. Please provide evidence or retract this statement.

Kosovo and Bosnian Muslims killed Serbs AFTER they were viciously attacked by the superior forces of Yugoslavia and their allied paramilitary units.

Quote by: grandpa and that they had an official "rape policy" is absurd. To this day, I have seen no evidence of such a policy, which leads me to believe it was merely propaganda concocted to sell NATO intervention.

Absurd? The independent HRW report found evidence of serial rape in Kosovo and NO investigations and NO punishments by the Serbian controlled army and paramilitary militias. According to the Geneva Conventions, the occupying authority--Serbia at the time--have the responsibility for law and order. If they allow their forces to rape and pillage without restraint, the national government of Serbia has committed a war crime. That's considered "official policy."

Have they found a memo from Slobodan Milosevic that reads "Serbian Forces: Rape Kosovars and Bosnians at Will!"? No. It's not needed to prove "official policy."

Quote by: grandpa That's very much plausible and I'm not going to apologize and feel sorry for adopting this view until evidence of a "rape policy" is presented.

Whether you apologize or feel sorry is not dependent on the facts. The HRC report is damning evidence of systematic brutality of Muslim communities under Serbian control by Serbian armed forces. It shows evidence of Kosovar atrocities too, but only after the Serbs attacked.

Quote by: grandpa On top of this, it's pretty well known that the...NATO bombing campaigns were just another series of atrocities (which went on for over 70 days, devastated Yugoslavia and increased hostilities).

Well, international calls for Serbian thugs to cease their unprovoked slaughter of Muslims went unheeded. "Pretty please" didn't seem to move the Serbian ultranationalists and Albanians were fixing to enter the conflict in support of the Kosovars. A wider Balkan war was brewing. I reject your attempt to equate the Kosovar/NATO actions with the years of Serbian atrocities by a modern military forces against weaker ethnic minorities. It's a false equivalency in the service of your own anti-NATO, anti-American, anti-"system" propaganda.