“Why was Yugoslavia, and Serbia specifically, targeted for destruction?”
i recall way back in the GHWB presidency, how GHWB made one specific change to US policy toward Europe: No US aid would go to Yugoslavia, but aid was allowed to breakaway republics. Michael Parenti:
“That U.S. leaders have consciously sought to dismember Yugoslavia is not a matter of speculation but of public record. In November 1990, the Bush administration pressured Congress into passing the 1991 Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, which provided that any part of Yugoslavia failing to declare independence within six months would lose U.S. financial support. The law demanded separate elections in each of the six Yugoslav republics, and mandated U.S. State Department approval of both election procedures and results as a condition for any future aid. Aid would go only to the separate republics, not to the Yugoslav government, and only to those forces whom Washington defined as “democratic,” meaning right-wing, free-market, separatist parties.”