Crisis in Kosovo
The area of Kosovo is no stranger to conflict. In 1389, the invading Muslim Turks defeated Christian Serbs on the Field of Blackbirds in Kosovo. Kosovo fell under Turkish rule, which allowed Albanians to migrate from the south. This greatly increased the Albanian population of Kosovo. Six hundred years later, Slobadon Milosevic used this ancient battle to create a dispute between the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, who are Islamic, and the Serb Kosavars, who are Christian. This was the beginning of the modern crisis in Kosovo. Milosevic removed the autonomic government of Kosovo, which is mostly Albanian, and sent Serb police forces into Kosovo. The Albanians in that area are demanding independence from Yugoslavia, while claiming "[Ethnic Albanians] have no spiritual or ethnic background with the Serbs" (Ake 73). The Albanians also make claims of persecution and oppression by the Serb forces. A guerilla tactical army, known as The Kosovo Liberation Army, formed to fight for Kosovo's independence. In response to this, Serb soldiers are forcing the Albanians to leave Kosovo. The military campaign in Kosovo, led by the North American Treaty Organization, is known as Operation: Allied Force. The operation is a s
Intervention on our part decreases our country's stability, militaristically and financially. The United States should attempt to bargain for peace with diplomacy, but we should not get involved militarily in internal disputes of other countries. Republicans who oppose military action say, "American soldiers' lives would be needlessly risked in a local war between two peoples who have demonstrated that they would prefer to fight rather than make peace" (Ake 74). Our military intervention is not only a great risk, but it is also a waste of financial resources. The government has already spent nearly 20 billion dollars to keep American peacekeeping troops stationed in Bosnia for the past three years (Ake 78). The Government is debating whether to deploy ground troops to keep peace in Yugoslavia. Opponents to ground troops claim that "the U.S. has already involved itself too heavily in Yugoslavian civil wars" (Ake 78). Eventually, our country's military will be so spread out that we will not have enough protection at home. eries of missile attacks that target Serbia. It is NATO's attempt to bring an end to the human rights offenses brought upon the ethnic Albanians in that area by Serb military forces. Even though there is sufficient evidence for America to intervene in this dispute, I do not believe that America should. Henry Kissinger talks of the cause of the war as he writes, "The war in Kosovo is the product of a conflict going b
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