OTPOR (Resistance), the Yugoslav student based organization that sought the removal of Milosevic was funded by the US government. It was given $25 million for their efforts according to an American Public Broadcasting System television special "Bringing Down a Dictator" aired on March 31, 2002. See www.PBS.org.

Yours,

Nameless

One of the few good things that the US government did. Considering that they funded Bin Laden and his talibans, before they came US enemy No1, this money at least went for a good cause.

Maybe it was a good thing. But only if Serbs, Montenegrins, Albanians, Romas, Croats, Turks, Goranci, and the other Yugoslav minorities, are freer, happier, healthier than they were before. But what if they are more miserable and less free now? Still a good thing?

One thing is sure, it was not a good thing for American democracy. Washington leaders, since 1945, have felt the compulsion to start a new war or insurrection at least once a year. Such wars are usually secret, sometimes they are just private wars, organized in the interest of small parasitical corporate cliques, in violation of the Constitution of the United States.

In a democracy, you do not go to war without an open national debate. Lack of debate means that democracy has been overthrown and an oligarchy installed. A debate allowed in a few university classrooms, internet sites, and small magazines is not a national debate, and a choral performance in the media is not a debate.