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[quote=ERENCIUS,245824]How to say, you are confusing many things.
I chose to begin by the begining. Indeed, they invaded half of Europe in the end and were fianlly pushed back to the actual borders, more or less.
Though, I suggest you read some books about the Spanish Omeyyades dynasty. You'll learn that is was the golden age for sciences, philosophy and inventions. That jews, christians and muslim were living together in peace and more, in cooperation. For instance, scrolls from ancient Greek were taken there to be translated. Why ? Because at this time European people were barbarians compared with Arabic people, we were fighting all the time for small territories, the life expectancy dived. Everyone had already forgotten the ancient greek language. So they asked Jewish people to translate these book and from it they discovered many things they improved a lot of the inventions.
Many very famous scientist lived there at that time: Averroes, Maïmonides...
It was nearly the only period throughout which Jewish people were not persecuted, also one of the rare ones Christian and Muslim could live together without fighting. Why ? Because of tolerance. At this time, this dynasty was only persecuting pagan people. They never ask the Christian nor the Jewish to disown their faith for example, they also left the Churches and Synagogas intact. The contray happened systematically during the Reconquista (killing, destruction, tolerance 0).
For what is about the Kosovo war, the answer is simple: untill 1999 the UçK (Liberation army of the Kosovo's Albanians) was considered by the International Community (UN included) as a terrorist organisation: noone considered helping Albanians there before. It changed thanks to Bill Clinton interest for the issue (You can be proud of this one, he is a very clever and pacific person).
For what is about the Cold War, the US won because the USSR collapsed. But if you analyse what were the costs of it, I can tell many persons would have prefer the contrary maybe.
To protect itself from the expansion of communist ideas, the US financed many extremist dissidents in Souh American countries to eliminate the threat physically, supporting new dictatorship in their bloodshed to exterminate any opposition. Hundred thousands of people died because of this and the guerilla that still exists now in South America is one of the relics of this past (not the best way to solve the problem).
Though I ll never say what the USSR did was nice, it was rather the opposite. Bloodshed also. The bigger a State is, the freer it feels to commit any excess. It is still true now: China attacking every single computer system in the wolrd to test their defenses, or the US with real weapons (for other nation of course). We usually say, with great power come even greater responsabilities. I wish this will become true.[/quote]

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