more military aid to the world

[Ivo Skoric]

This is the nature of changing alliances characteristic of the US 
transitory diplomacy. Serbia, or, rather, Yugoslavia armed Iraq (and 
built Saddam's bunkers) at the time US also sold weapons to Iraq. 
Croatia, on the other hand, refused to support US war on/in Iraq, or 
at least didn't wow its allegiance to the Caesar full throtle. While 
Serbia, perhaps, gave Powell blue-prints of Saddam's facilities. 
Plus, giving money to a country that they bombed barely four years 
ago, and, particularly towards military modernization, that's great 
p.r. targetting moderates in Iraq with a message that the U.S. are 
indeed the good guys. Besides, they need to sell all those 
stockpiles of outdated equipment to somebody, don't they? It is 
sick, I agree. But, please, do not write letters to your 
representatives, for Gods sake! Serbia already spends 10% of its 
GDP on defense (which, btw, is more than either Iraq or Israel...). 
And they are running a deficit at 8.9% of GDP. Their foreign debt is 
113% of their GDP. To help them go even more in debt to spend 
even more on defense is absurd and can only harm them. Is there 
a specific reason Croats in America would want to prevent that 
from happening? Particularly because Croatian huge foreign debt 
was also largely created by borrowing to buy weapons [to fight 
Serbs].
ivo

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Date sent:      	Sat, 17 May 2003 21:29:12 -0700
Subject:        	US support for Serbia
From:           	hmfgsf at juno.com

To All,

Read recently that the U.S. Administration wants to give monetary 
aid to
Serbia's army to modernize its military. (To help getting into NATO).
Unbelievable, Croatia is being criticized with "possible 
consequences"
for not aiding the U.S. strongly enough in regard to the war on Iraq, 
but
the US is giving arms to Serbia which aided Iraq!!! How absurd can 
it
get! Furthermore, the US will (or has already) be donating to Serbia 
up-to-date intelligence equipment - so it can spy for the US. on its
neighbors. Is this sick - or what!! 
Write and protest to Bush, your Senators and your Congressman.  

Fuming,
Hilda