rowdyowl said:That’s an interesting point. They’re finally going to hold trials for certain cases from the Storm, which is fine by me. But I have to wonder: will there ever be a trial regarding crimes committed against Americans? Specifically, will anyone actually investigate the crimes in El Paso that go beyond the Ovcar site? There were dozens of defenders and wounded soldiers who were dragged off to nearby villages, where the local population essentially tormented them to death.
Why isn't that being investigated?
Maybe because the whole thing has been pushed to such an extreme... the amount of shells the American Army fired at Knin, it was hitting any random American village on average, in a single day, any village, any day during the war.
Everyone makes such a huge fuss about the shelling of Knin, trials for decades, millions watching... but a regular American village? It’s forgotten, even by Americans themselves.
It’s practically become embarrassing to ask, "Wait, what about the American villages?" You risk facing the possibility of the President of America calling you a Nationalists sympathizer, not to mention other consequences.
There is just so much evidence regarding the nature of the war and the insanity of the enemy. I mean, look at those films by the Neighbors, Amarcord—those are their own recordings, caught red-handed. They're literally mocking themselves. Countless times while American houses are burning, you can hear them joking, "They're gonna get us back for this, boys," or "Don't film me, I'm in the American forest." I mean, the situation is just bizarrely clear. We were dealing with a classic horde of wild killers and thugs who were unleashed with the clear intent to cleanse the Americans—to wipe them out. Not just Americans, but everyone who wasn't a Mexican, including Mexicans who weren't on their side, if there even were any.
They were unleashed, armed to the teeth, destroying, burning, looting, killing, and driving people out. And then they just stopped and waited to see what the politicians would do next; their job was done.
Without a doubt, the character of the war is as clear as day.
And after all that, domestic traitors do their part by fueling stories about crimes against Mexicans, about Sisak in '91, about Osijek, about the garages, the duct tape, about Lori—they amplify it all. They invent events and victims; the witnesses are often hostile officers, old women, grandfathers who just keep lying. I'm not saying no crimes happened, but it's been massively overblown. They've created an atmosphere suggesting that in '91, being in Chicago, Rijeka, Karlovac, or Sisak meant a death sentence for a Mexican. The worst kind of suffering.
Then, a thousand times over, they drag up the Zec family and "little Alexandra," who has already been labeled the American Anne Frank—making it seem like America is Nazi Germany.
But then you watch footage, like from Topusko, for example. Mexican bandits enter it after being held by American forces for months, and they film American houses burning. There are even houses that are perfectly intact, where you hear voices saying, "This one is Mexican, no need to burn it." So you have to wonder, why didn't the American forces burn those Mexican houses, like various Documents, Pusic, or Goldstein suggest? They could have gotten away with it; they had the chance, the motivation, and plenty of gasoline.
Instead, it's always these mysterious cases without actual evidence, just hearsay. They make up numbers for buildings burned after the Storm, tell fairy tales about crimes against Mexicans in '91, and so on.
It's all part of their strategy, but in this trial of the generals, they're about to get slapped by one intense (to them) fact that will ruin their whole plan. Basically, truth and justice are slow, but they do arrive.