Kosovo: A New Day of Infamy for a New Century
The grotesque charade in Pristina on Sunday, February 17, crowned a decade and a half of U.S. policy in the former Yugoslavia that has been mendacious and iniquitous in equal measure. By encouraging its Albanian clients go ahead with the unilateral proclamation of independence written at the Department of State, the U.S. administration has made a massive leap into the unknown. That leap is potentially on par with Austria’s July 1914 ultimatum to Serbia. The fruits will be equally bitter. While their exact size and taste are hard to predict right now, that in the fullness of time America will come to regret the criminal folly of her current leaders is certain. Their Balkan policy is worse than a crime: It is a mistake.
Having devoted seven News & Views columns to Kosovo over the past year I have little to add to the sordid story of Western deceit, allied with Albanian barbarity, that has culminated in the spectacle in Pristina. Suffice to say that Belgrade vs. Washington, in this particular instance, is the clearest-cut case of “white hats vs. black hats” in today’s world affairs.
Some prominent Americans with no cultural or personal axes to grind are trying, even at this late stage, to check the insanity. Writing in the usually interventionist Wall Street Journal on February 9, Ruth Wedgwood, one of America’s foremost legal scholars, thus warned of the “dangerous precedent to tear apart the territory of a member state of the United Nations”—a move that may cause an unnecessary crisis when America is overengaged elsewhere. “Kosovo’s best (and perhaps only) chance to join Europe’s economy is to ride in as a part of Serbia,” she says, but it is more likely to join the Organization of the Islamic Conference instead. In addition, Wedgwood warns, Kosovo’s proclamation may well destabilize the Old Continent, from Bosnia and Macedonia to Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
NOT IN THE AMERICAN INTEREST—“An imposed settlement of the Kosovo question and seeking to partition Serbia’s sovereign territory without its consent is not in the interest of the United States.” While my friends and I have expressed this view many a time, it was recently stated with greater prominence by John R. Bolton, Peter W. Rodman and Lawrence Eagleburger. Writing in the Washington Times, the three heavyweights called for urgent re-examination of U.S. policy on Kosovo and urged the Bush administration to make it clear that, pending the results of such re-examination, it would withhold recognition of any independence declaration:
Current U.S. policy relies on the unconvincing claim that Kosovo is “unique” and would set no precedent for other troublespots… [E]thnic and religious minorities in other countries already are signaling their intention to follow a Kosovo example. This includes sizeable Albanian communities in adjoining areas of southern Serbia, Montenegro, and especially Macedonia, as well as the Serbian portion of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Recognition … would set a precedent with far-reaching and unpredictable consequences for many other regions of the world. The Kosovo model already has been cited by supporters of the Basque separatist movement in Spain and the Turkish-controlled area of northern Cyprus. Neither the Security Council nor any other international body has the power or authority to impose a change of any country’s borders.
The trio further warned that the current U.S. policy is marked by a dismissive attitude toward Russia’s objections: The United States should not prompt an unnecessary crisis in U.S.-Russia relations, lest Russia withdraws her support on issues such as Iran’s and North Korea’s nuclear intentions. Such cooperation would be undercut by American action calculated to neutralize Moscow’s legitimate concerns regarding Kosovo. On an issue of minor importance to the U.S., they ask, “is this a useful expenditure of significant political capital with Russia?”
Bolton, Rodman and Eagleburger predict that a self-proclaimed “independent state” of Kosovo will be “a dysfunctional one and a ward of the international community for the indefinite future.” It is plagued by rampant corruption and organized crime and a nonviable economy, they point out. Its law enforcement, integrity of the courts, protection of persons and property, and other prerequisites for statehood are “practically nonexistent.” Unilateral declaration of independence recognized by some countries and rejected by many others would only make matters worse by turning Kosovo into yet another “frozen conflict.”
The authors conclude by predicting that, “faced with a choice between Western partnership and defense of their sovereign territory and constitution,” Serbia would opt for the latter and inevitably move closer to Russia as its only protector.
“WHO LOST SERBIA?”—That Serbia is lost to the West is now certain. President Boris Tadic’s narrow victory (51 percent) in the second round of the presidential election in Serbia on February 3 was entirely due to his claim that, as an enthusiastically pro-Western reformist, he could obtain less brutal treatment for Serbia from Brussels and Washington than his “ultra-nationalist” opponent.
In Washington Tadic’s victory was hastily interpreted as a sure sign that the Serbs are throwing in the towel, and that, therefore, the scenario for independence should go ahead. (Had Tomislav Nikolic of the Serbian Radical Party won, they would have said that the scenario should be applied post haste because Serbia is irredeemably nationalist and should be taught a lesson.)
Far from indicating Serbia’s readiness to “accept the inevitable” and sling into the vivisection kennel, however, Tadic’s victory was the last chance for the U.S. and the EU to stop the trainwreck. The anger against the U.S. and the EU will translate into the well-deserved electoral demise for Tadic’s Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) at the next parliamentary election. That election is now imminent in the next few months.
Serbia’s mood was evident in Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica’s somber speech to the nation, broadcast immediately after the proclamation in Pristina. He said that the “unilateral declaration of the fake state of Kosovo represents the final act of a policy initiated in 1999 with NATO aggression.” He accused the United States of a “merciless violation of international order”:
America humiliated and forced Europe Union to discard its basic principles. Europe bowed before America, and it will be held responsible for all the consequences that will arise from Kosovo’s independence.
It is difficult to make forecasts about Belgrade’s forthcoming responses—not least because they are treated as closely guarded secrets—but the following sequence of events is, in my opinion, at least less unlikely than any other:
- The inherent schizophrenia splitting the ruling coalition in Serbia will be subjected to intolerable strains in the next few weeks, primarily over the issue of how to respond to the forthcoming acts of recognition by the United States and leading EU countries. Kostunica favors weighty moves, while Tadic and his ministers will insist on empty gestures—e.g. withdrawing ambassadors from Western capitals—that fall far short of breaking diplomatic relations.
- The resulting election will mark the long-overdue demise of the DS, with its worn out Euro-rhetoric that has yielded zero dividends over the past eight years. The winners will be the Radicals (SRS) and Kostunica’s Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS). They will either form a long-overdue coalition, or else Kostunica will try to form a national unity government in which the Radicals will be represented (and from which Tadic and his DS will stay away because their “friends” in Brussels and Washington would never allow them to be in the same room with Nikolic).
- The entity proclaimed in Pristina will be recognized by the United States, by most of the Islamic world—which will find itself aligned, yet again, with America in promoting Islam and fighting Christianity in the Balkans—and by about a half of the European Union’s 27 members. Washington will claim to have the “international community” behind it, but in order to do so many small and weak countries, from Haiti to Tonga to Vanuatu, will be bribed, cajoled, or bullied into recognition.
- “KosovA” will NOT be recognized by Russia, China, India, Brazil, Indonesia (the most populous Muslim country), by most of black Africa, and by at least half-dozen EU member-countries. The non-recognizing countries’ population will exceed by two-to-one that of the Willing. The “international community” will be finally seen for what it is: an empty slogan, an invention of Washingtonian hegemonists and Euro-globalists devoid of substance or authority.
- Kosovo will linger on for a few years, as an expensive albatross costing American and “willing” taxpayers a few billion a year. It will continue developing, not as a functional economy but as a black hole of criminality and Jihad terrorism. The ever-rising and constantly unfulfilled expectations of its unemployable multitudes will eventually turn—Frankenstein’s monster-like—against the entity’s creator. There will be many Ft. Dixes to come, at Camp Bondsteel and at home.
- The precedent of Kosovo will destabilize many countries with restive and separatist-minded minorities, including America’s friends in Turkey (Kurds), Pakistan (Pashtuns), and above all in the ever-dysfunctional Dayton-Bosnia, with no dividend of any kind in the Islamic world as a whole for the United States on the account of its championing the Muslim cause in the Balkans.
The U.S.-led Kosovo policy in the end will prove to be a blessing in disguise for Serbia. Only by NOT joining the European Union will she preserve her identity, her traditions, and her faith. Only by NOT joining the U.S.-hegemonized system of military alliances will she avoid having her youths put in harm’s way for nothing, in some arid, hostile faraway lands. Only by forging an ever-tighter political, economic, and eventually military alliance with Russia will Serbia avoid the clutches of a postmodern “American” empire devoid of a single redeeming feature.
God sometimes acts in mysterious ways, and on this 21st Century Day of Infamy, February 17, we should ask for His mercy and thank Him for his blessings. Kosovo had remained Serbian during those five long centuries of Ottoman darkness, to be liberated in 1912. It is no less Serbian now, the ugly farce in Pristina notwithstanding. It will be tangibly Serbian again when the current experiment in Benevolent Global Hegemony collapses and when the very names of Messrs. Bush, McCain and Clinton are deservedly consigned to the dustheap of history.
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desparation... reality is sour but true, so face it with sorrow... like albanians did from 1913 up today.
@49Srdja Trifkovic
Still you lost the argument. The US State Department did not take notice of any of your arguments.
Now what.....
Take Kosovo by force. That's all you Serbs understand.
"It will be tangibly Serbian again" only with a Serb invasion.
"the U.S. administration has made a massive leap into the unknown. That leap is potentially on par with Austria’s July 1914 ultimatum to Serbia. The fruits will be equally bitter. While their exact size and taste are hard to predict right now, that in the fullness of time America will come to regret the criminal folly of her current leaders is certain."
Srdja Trifkovic just what are you implying here?? The Austrian Hungarian Empire was completely annihilated on 11 November 1918.
Is the above statement by you some sort of terrorist threat directed toward the USA?
I see the serbian nation in a deep crisis in a national identity problem to be found. It will take time until they find their rational. High stamina is not enough. We albanians had a similar problem and I'm glad that lately we found a rational approach to fix the problems and orient ourselves twards the future.
As per serbs I would descrybe their situation of now as "Desperational-depressional".
They have a long-long journey in fatigue to go throw...
Good luck neighbours!
@33Srdja Trifkovic
"Re #31: If the Vatican does recognize, to the Orthodox all over the world that would provide proof positive that the rhetoric of “two lungs” is empty and that the obsessive, ethnocentric Orthodoxophobes of Central-Eastern Europe have prevailed. That would be a victory for Jihad and a triumph for the post-modern Christophobes who run the Western world."
Please.. Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI will recognize Kosovo in foreseeable future in April during his visit to the US @ the UN. You orthodox are outside the Church. No mention will be made of “two lungs" because....
In the End my Immaculate Heart will Triumph. Our Lady of Fatima.
Just another infallible dogma you Serbs deny: The Immaculate Conception.
It is normal...
While the Albanians everywhere celebrate Kosova's indipendence, serbs complain like little kids without hope and only desperate claims of inheritage which does not stand twards a serious view of histric facts.
Do you mr Srdja know that slavs came to the Balcans only 1000 years ago while the Ilirians-Albanians have been there forever?
Other slavs know it thou they are reckognizing Kosova's indipendence.
Kill the myths felow serbs and learn to live with the reality.
ilirida,michael warning,muhamed,
(by the way, is it the same person?)
Typical for them/him to feel stronger if they act as crowd.
Un Shqiptar e ata Shkje
N'mni t'sho-shoqit kena le
Kem' nermjet nji qiell e i dhe...
For the serbs that do not know albanian:
I'm albanian they'r sllavs
In hate for each-other born
Sky and earth sets us apert...
This poem is of the Albanian national poet writen in 1905.
Meaninffiul... is it not.
I have yet to see a post by a coherent, reasonable, knowledgable Albanian on this website. All of them so far, in the three years or so I have been visiting the site, have been insulting, ignorant, hateful, vicious, spastic, and incoherent.
I forgot to mention, dishonest.
We are still waiting to see ANY cultural monument, letter, sign, DNA test or really ANYTHING that can convince us all and prove even the hint of that claim of thousands of years of preceding existence of Albanians anywhere, including, naturally, Balkans.
Are those the same 1000 years of culture that Croatia claimed in the beginning of all this mess or it's some other Josip Broz style period in History.
Where Serbs suppose to go from Balkans since they quite clearly bother everyone.
By the way: which Muslims we are talking in Kosovo or Bosna.
I wonder what real Muslims have to say about that if they only know where those places are.
57
We are not the same person but yes we sound unique in our thoughts.
Like our presidents in Albania & Kosova, like our primeministers in Albania&Kosova, like our whole nation we sound unique. So do you serbs, like your leaders you reflect diversity and antagonism twards your national goal if there is any..
PS. do you serbs have any idea what will hapen with Voivodina? God help you... with your uncertain future. Uuuups... Voivodina.
Eagle: The first thing that is to MODERNIZE THE ARMY. The generals are there to defend the country and resist any foreign interference in the most effecitve way. if they cannot defend the people, they should resign immediately.
Just imagine for a moment if the same happened to Israel. In a matter of hours, their top targets would beheavily bombed and destroyed and no foreign body would dare to enter their homeland. However, we are not Israelis, but we do have guts and heart to fight for the cradle of our culture and just because the country is small does not mean that it cannot defend its interest and people. We have proven that that can be done many times in our bloody history.
Dear serbian friends!
Why do you bring it to the religion every now and then?
If you do not know beter than that, than eat pork and go to russia where you came from.
Why do I chat with you anyway? You are shrinking & I gotta feel "sorry" for you & enjoy the indipendence of my albanian brothers in Kosova from one of two albanians capitals Tirana.
The ethnic Albanians may not have international law on their side but they have something more important: The willingness to back up their demands with physical force.
The Serbian government ruled out the use of force BEFORE the unilateral declaration. What kind of leverage does an economically weak country with few allies like Serbia have without the will to back up its own sovereignty claim with the use of force? I'd say none. On Monday Tadic said again, several times actually, that Serbia will not resort to violence. So it is no surprise that the stronger willed Albanians with the support of the world's strongest powers will defeat the weak, and, apparently, indifferent Serbs.
I feel foolish telling people from my safe distance that they should place themselves and their families in harms way. Even if Serbian ground forces could retake Kosovo province (and they would have to do so against entrenched NATO positions), why would anyone believe that all of Serbia would not be subjected to another round of "strategic" bombing (i.e., civilian terror bombing)?
Serbia has had to endure an overwhelming amount of violence this past century. This small nation has fought valiantly for its freedom and yet the invaders from far off just keep coming. When will it end? When will the US, UK, Germany, Austria and others just leave her alone!? Does Germany feel no shame whatsoever as a people? Three times they have come to attack Serbia within the past 100 years. For what? Did Serbs go and attack them, or seek their territory? And they have the nerve to posture as moral superiors? When these "democracies" stop bringing their "freedom" and "human rights" to the Balkan peninsula - THAT will be a happy day for the local Christians.
By the way, Matra, the Albanians are willing to use their violence backed up by superpower air forces, which Serbia has not at her disposal. Does anyone seriously believe that the KLA and their enablers in Tirana would be lording it over a shellfish on the Adriatic coast, much less a chunk of Serbia, were the US not meddling?
Where, o where does one even begin to comment on the monumental stupidity of this action by the U. S. and the bureaucratic mess that is the E.U.? I am honestly amazed at the naive welcome given to this "declaration" by many commentators here in the West.
This is no independent state, this is nothing but a land grab, not even by the Albanians, but by the US/EU rulers!
This "province" is now their property, they will control its policy, economy, everything, they even went to the trouble of designing a nice, EU-approved flag for it!
I really do fear now for the future of all of Europe, I'm amazed that the government of the U.K., where I live, who cannot actually run our country like grown-ups, think they can design and manage bits of other countries!
The U.S. has been pushing for the secession of Kosovo for decades before 1998. What is so shocking about these current developmets is the apparent surprise evinced by so many. The U.S. has been sponsoring the Albanian separatists in Kosovo since at least the 1980s. Official U.S. sponsorship of Kosovo secession became official after the Communist-created autonomy was rescinded in 1989.
What was remarkable is how the U.S. put Albanian secession on hold during the breakup and dismemberment of Yugoslavia. The objective was clear. The U.S. did not want to push Kosovo secession at that time becaue it would equate it with Krajina Serb and Bosnian Serb secessions. It would have been difficult for U.S. propaganda to deny Krajina Serbs and Bosnian Serb secession and support it for Albanians. So Kosovo secession was downplayed dutring this period. It is not by coincidence that the Kosovo secession movement began in 1996 right after the Dayton Peace Accords.
The U.S. destroyed the secession and independence of the Krajina Republic and then the Serbian Republic in Bosnia. Conversely, it fought an illegal war on behalf of Kosovo Albanian Muslims to establish a second Albanian state in Europe.
All these actions by the U.S. were criminal and constituted war crimes. The only way the U.S. was able to sell these crimes was by invoking the Holocaust and "genocide".
Islam has nothig to do with these U.S. crimes. Neither has Orthodoxy.
A U.S. military, economic, political, and geo-political presence in the Balkans was seen as vital in the expansion or projection of U.S. power after the Cold War. The only obstacle to this expansion was Serbia, the only country that opposed or stood in the way of a U.S. presence in the Balkans. Naturally, Serbia was seen as "the enemy" and had to be destroyed. But this is not personal and has nothing to do with Islam or Orthodoxy. This is just a simple issue of power and its expansion.
Camp Bondsteel is the key. This issue revolves around a U.S. presence in the Balkans. Bondsteel is one of the largest U.S. military bases ever constructed. The U.S. inteds to stay permanently. How can the U.S. stay if Kosovo is reintegrated into Serbia?
Remember, the U.S. seized by military force, that is, criminally, Texas, California, Arizona, and Nevada from Mexico. Now these "states" are slowly gaining Hispanic-Mexican majorities where Spanish is the primary language spoken and there is a return to Mexican culture. The U.S. seized Cuba, the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico from Spain. The U.S. was violently kicked out of Cuba and then out of the Philippines where U.S. troops established a reputation for rape. The U.S. declared the independence of Panama from Columbia in order to create the Panama Canal. In other words, the U.S. detached a province from Columbia by force to create Panama so the use could build the canal. Columbia is one of the most anti-U.S. states in Latin America today. This is neither the first nor the last illegal land grab that the U.S. has engineered. Do not sweat it. The U.S. has been doing this for centuries.
At some point, though, the chickens come home to roost. The 911 attacks was one instance of this. They were the chickens that Charlie Wilson and Ronald Reagan bred. American citizens are mired in poverty, live in horrid conditions, have the highest crime rate in the world, and are manipulated by a media that only seeks to brainwash them. At some point, these U.S. crimes will come home to roost. What goes up, must come down. At some point, the U.S. will reap the consequences and repercussions of these criminal acts.
Regarding #69, I find it hard to stomach a post that condemns everything that America has ever done. I guess you forgot to mention the dispossession of the Native Ameriocans ahd chattle slavery. By the standards you use, EVERY country should feel guilty about its past. Was Russia assembled from conquered principalities? By the same token, does Russia today occupy the Kurile Islands, which actually are Japanese? This standard will have alot of planes flying into alot of buildings as "blowback." Maybe we should give back Manhattan since the poor "Indians" were obviously swindled. I am sypathetic to the Serbs (which I was not during the Nineties) and even Russia, because I feel that the United States is foolishly establishing an Islamic state on the European continent. What will we do if Kosovo joins not the secular "European Community," but the Islamic Conference instead? Maybe we should give Spain back to Islam; no, wait a minute, they conquered the pre-existing Goths. We will have no end of this if we are going to examine every historical "wrong."
70jmcnulty
Communism was installed in Russia through the transfer 0f $20 million through the financing of New York banker Jacob Schiff and his bolshevik leaders like Trotsky ( Bernstein ) with the protection of safe havens in European capitals. The difference between Kosovo and any other state is that the leadership is the mafia whos crime syndicates reach major European countries especially Italy.
The point I am making is that the U.S. engineered secession of Kosovo is not sui generis or unique. Kosovo is not the first time this has happened. We have to see it in context. Kosovo is like Panama. The U.S. needed to detach Panama from Columbia to achieve a goal, the construction of the Panama Canal. Similarly, the U.S. had to detach Kosovo from Serbia to achieve a geo-political and military presence in "Southeastern Europe", also to neutralize a state that was an obstacle, Serbia.
As you noted, every state is built on a crime, to paraphrase a line from Honore Balzac. Even the United States. Perhaps, more so with the U.S. This means that every state is unstable and subject to dissolution, including the U.S.
What I was attacking is this American notion that the U.S. is somehow immune from reality and from historical change and evolution. The U.S. is not immune. What happens when California is overwhelmingly Hispanic-Mexican or Texas or Arizona?
Then we have a Kosovo scenario on U.S. soil. We will have a de facto Hispanic state. They will speak Spanish and will have a Mexican culture and will have close ties to relatives in Mexico proper. Then it is just a matter of time before we see a Kosovo type of separatism emerge. Not now, but say, in 50 years. Los Angeles is already a Hispanic city whose residents are hostile to the white Anglo Gringo imperialist. In the LA riots in the 1990s Hispanics attacked white businesses and sided with blacks. It is easy to foresee a Kosovo scenario in the coming decades.
And once the U.S. leaves Kosovo and the Balkans? What happens to the Albanian Muslims then?
We saw what happened to the Albanians when Serbia and other Balkan allied states defeated the invincible (or so they said) Superpower Ottoman Turkish Empire in 1912 and drove the Turks back to Asia where they came from.
Serbia has to see this as a long term conflict. The Serbs withstood Ottoman Turkish occupation for 500 years and emerged stronger. They can withstand the U.S. Global Hegemon too. Just keep eating those Big Macs and French, no, Freedom Fries and wait the Hegemon out. The U.S. can't stay forever. All Empires eventually collapse into dust. That is one of the key lessons of history.
Carl Savich hit this nail right on the head and drove it all the way in, I would say. I was just about to write something very similar.
Manhattan was PURCHASED as far as the story goes so the example hardly relates to some Kosovo.
Kosovo was logical beginning of latest Balkan affair. I wondered why. I wonder no more.
Mr. Savich explained perfectly clear why.
jmcnulty,
why are you saiing WE.
It is not We it is THEY.
You,me,he,she,..do not have anything to do with that,what They do and what They are establishing around the world.
Not you neither I benefit from that.We are just 99% of those averidge people who can just sit and watch possibly say our opinion,if we dare.
They are doing,whatever They want, for their own benefits!
THEY do not belong to America,NATO,West,East,...THEY think that THEY own whole world and for them:law does not applay.
It applay to you and me.
In Ninties you did not feel sorry for Serbia becouse THEY told you what they wanted you to believe,not what was going on.
The same'story'applays to evrything THEY do all over the world.
No need to disagree with Mr Savich.
If you are simpatetic to Serbs and Russia,now,lets see what can you do about that,except writing,here!?
You CAN NOT DO ANYTHING and that is the problem the the rest of us,in this world,is facing against THEM-1%.
THEY do not care about USA,NATO,East,West,..they care only for themself
Mr Savich has clear mind and that is different between him and you.
How can you fight that,THEM!?
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley captures the futility and transience of empires and Global Hegemons:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Just shattered pieces and fragments are all that remain of that mighty Egyptian empire ruled by Ozymandias.
I was duped in the Nineties by the sob story, endlessly portrayed on the "news" and even in Hollywood movies, that the Muslims were a persecuted minority being slaughtered by fascistic Serbs. September 11 changed my attitude. The idea that helping Muslims would buy their "goodwill" was a chimera. Read Zawahiri's essays and tell me that we can do ANTHING to satisfy salafi Muslims. I am still abashed that Clinton bombed Christian Serbs for 78 days on behalf of Muslim Bosnians. The current policy seems to assume that Europe will become, to a greater or lesser extent, Islamist and that we had better curry favor where we can. Are we going again to bomb Christians on behalf of Muslims? I agree with the comment about California. In 50 years, we probably will have a "reunifiction" movement in Los Angeles. Will McCain build the wall? Indications are not good when he grudging said, "Okay, I'll build the damn thing if you want it!" To what extent is our politics "shadows dancing on the wall?" Back to the latest Brittany news. Meanwhile, the first Islamic mafia state is established on European soil. What is next? Bavaria out of Germany?
Kosovo will remain Serbia. It's only been a day since the ridiculous proclamation was made by thieves who crept into the country on their hind legs and spread like mad wolves throughout the provinces - first, embracing the riches of the land and it's citizens - then killing and threatening the serbian people - and today proclaiming to own serbian lands by right of occupation. Kosovo will never be anything but Serbia. The wolf attacked the US on 9/11 and, to contain the animal, the US government offers Kosovo.....It will be the serbs again ( WWI & WWII) who will call out to the the world to seize the evil wolf and destroy it. Time is on our side.
We will defend our homes and property from all intruders.
What is the standard definition of "blowback"? We intervene in a situation criminally and over time it comes back to bite us in the ass. That definition is as good as any.
We overthrew Mosadeg in Iran in 1953. He was democratically elected but he threatened to nationalize British Petroleum (BP) and potential U.S. oil firms in Iran. Twenty five years later we get the Iranian Revolution whose militants say the U.S. is the Great Satan.
Now, that is classic Blowback. We created that situation.
We armed and created the mujahedeen Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan. We made them viable. Ossama bin Laden was one of those Charlie Wilson mujahedeen. Twenty years later, these Ronald Reagan Freedom Fighters are flying planes into the Pentagon and World Trade Centers. The U.S. also helped these mujahedeen illegally enter Bosnia to fight for the Muslim Army there.
When they blew up the WTC, these mujahedeen had Bosnian Muslim pasports that Alija Izetbegovic issued them and Bosnian military experience.
Now this is classic blowback. What part of this is so difficult to understand?
Of course, we can speculate that these attacks would have occurred even if the Charlie Wilsons of the world had not created them. But this is mindless drivel.
Al-Qaeda needed the infrastructure, the planning, the training, the logistical knowledge, the financial network that the U.S. and CIA provided. After all, the U.S. recruited bin Laden from Saudi Arabia. This takes a massive logistical support system that only the US/CIA could provide. Moreover, the Al-Qaeda group needed the Taliban regime in Kabul to train and organize and to use as a base of operations. The US in essence created the Taliban and put it in power. We cheered and gloated when the Taliban hung the secular leaders. We had won in Afghanistan.
Also, the Bosnia experience made Al- Qaeda global and gave them the skill and confidence to pull off 911. It was the US that empowered Al Qaeda in Bosnia. So the US did everything to create the scenario for 911. It is classic blowback.
Response to Carl Savich:
The United States never supported Bin Laden. Read Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower." He is a writer for The New Yorker and predisposed to blame the United States if he can. Bin Laden was a poor commander in Afghanistan who only became famous because of his ability to raise suitcases full of cash in the Arab world. The mujihadeen were supported to create the Soviet Union's own "Vietnam." The idea that Charley Wilson has much to do with it, except in the very earliest stages, is a Hollywood myth. I remember that the United States government was supporting the mujihadeen during Reagan's administration. It worked. The war in Afghanistan directly led to the fall of the Soviet Union. No one anticipated Al Queda at the time; in fact, if was thought that friendly relations were possible since the Soviet Union was an "atheist" nation, while America was more godly. When you read about Sayyid Q'tub and the Muslim Brotherhood, it is obvious that Al Queda would come out of it -- obvious now. The only way to avoid "blowback" is to never do anything. Anytime that we take sides in a conflict, we set ourselves up for "blowback" from some faction. If we had not aided the mujahadeen, we would then have had "blowback" from them because we stood by while thousands were killed by "godless Communists." As you may recall, the Taliban were not the "Taliban" as they later became. At first, while warlords battled in Kabul, they were seen as pious "religious students" who offered a return to peace and order. If we had helped the Serbs, we might now be suffering "blowback" from Bosnian Muslims.
Regarding Post #76, you wrote:
"I was duped in the Nineties by the sob story, endlessly portrayed on the 'news' and even in Hollywood movies, that the Muslims were a persecuted minority being slaughtered by fascistic Serbs."
This begs the question: By whom? Who duped you? Who brainwashed you?
The answer is the US Government and the US media. Remember the Nazi Concentration Camps the Serbs were running in Bosnia? The mass rapes?
It was the US Government that created the Bosnian War in the first place. The US told the Bosnian Muslims to screw the Bosnian Serbs and go ahead and create a Muslim State in Europe. The US told Alija Izetbegovic, a convicted felon and a rabid Muslim ultranationalist, to screw the Serbs and to declare a Muslim state and that he need not worry. The US media and military would help him out. That is when the war started.
The parties had earlier agreed at Lisbon to preserve the system the Communists created to allow each of the three groups in Bosnia to have a say in the government. The US rejected this plan. The US told Alija: You Muslims are the largest group. Do what you want. Screw the Serbs and Croats. Then all hell broke loose.
But the U.S. was 100% behind this carnage.
The same is true with Kosovo. Remember how the Albanian Muslims were supposed to be seeking only greater rights and freedoms. Wrong. They were seeking an Albanian state, which is illegal under the UN and international law.
The way the US got around this illegality was by concocting a genocide scenario.
Genocide trumps illegality. We can bomb you and take over your country if we can claim that you are committing geocide. Of course, there was no genocide. But once the US created an Albanian Kosovo state, who cared?
Just like in Iraq. Once the US hung Saddam Hussein and took over the country and killed one million Iraqis, who cared that Bush lied about the WMDs? The mission was accomplished. Move on to the next "liberation".
The Serbian government has contingency plans to send its army back into Kosovo. Russia said that if it requests help, all it has to do is make the request . If the Russians send several squadrons of Mig-31 interceptors or the more advanced Su-35 fighter bombers to Serbia (aircraft incidentally which are superior in performance to any aircraft that NATO has), and if the Serbian army marches into Kosovo, does anyone seriously believe that Serbia would be bombed.
Also, the Russians could send in the S300 or the more advanced S400 air defense systems which can shoot down NATO aircraft even before they reach Serbia.
So for all of you who believe that Serbia would be bombed all over again, you are barking up the wrong tree. If NATO air forces attacked Serbia, they would suffer such heavy losses that the bombing runs would not last more than a few days. After that no NATO aircraft would go anywhere near Serbia.
The Serbian army and the Russian air force and air defense forces could quickly rectify this situation.
Regarding #79, you say the US support of the mujahedeen led directly to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
But this is just a myth concocted to rationalize our support of Muslim cutthroats who were cutting the throats of Christians. This is a rationalization with no proof.
The Nazis also said that every Jew in Europe had to be exterminated because Jews were responsible for the loss of Germany in WWI and the economic collapse. But it was the German Army that sent Lenin to St. Petersburg and dealt with Trotsky. But this was a myth. Germany lost WWI because the US intervened and because the Germans were not all that brilliant as militarists. Once the Schlieffen Plan failed, they were screwed. No one thought out a strategy beyond that point. Duh! Georgi Zhukov destroyed the German military machine in WWII. The Russians burned so many dead German bodies in Stalingrad that the smell was awful. (See Khrushchev Remembers, 1970). Yeah, the Germans are such brilliant military strategists!
Now what is your proof that US support of the mujahedeen resulted in the collapse of the USSR? Sure, they shot down some Russian helicopters and killed some Orthodox Christians, but the Soviets killed a lot of mujahedeen, just like we are doing there now.
It also goes against common sense and human nature. War unites a nation and makes it stronger and more unified. Just look at America now after 911. CIA support for the mujahedeen kept the USSR together and proved to everyone that the US/CIA danger to Russia was real. It united the USSR, just like 911 did with us.
Also, you take a cynical posture about intervention. Kill them all and let Allah sort them out.
But I am sure those Soviet soldiers the CIA-trained mujahedeen were murdering were Orthodox Christians who were buried with crosses over their graves. Sure, many were from the other republics and many were Muslims, but many were Orthodox Russians and Ukrainians and Belorus who were Christians. The atheist thing was something US propaganda concocted.
Are you saying we were right in creating the mujahedeen to kill these Orthodox Christians?
Also, you say this was the Russian Vietnam. But that is pure absurdity and cynicism!
The CIA was on the friggin' Soviet border threatening to unleash Ossama bin Laden types against the USSR. That would be like the KGB training Mexicans on the border of Texas to come in and kill Gringos and take back Tejas which the Gringo criminally seized in 1845. Now, that is a no brainer. You intervene. No American would allow that to happen. But that is what the CIA was doing in Afghanistan. Using Islam to take back those Soviet republics that were Muslim.
Vietnam was an adventure 6,000 miles away that was based on madness. We put in a dictator even though the majority saw him as a US stooge and puppet. There was no support for the US occupation whatsoever. Everyone wanted the US out of there.
Vietnam was not on the border with California. It was not a threat.
But the claim that our support of the mujahedeen brought down the USSR is insane because it goes against reason and human nature. War unites us. Threats create unity. Bush knows that well. So did Hitler.
This is a lie created by Charlie Wilson types who have a guilt complex for supporting Muslims who in turn killed Christians. Yeah, I guess it was "genocide" that motivated good old Charlie!!!! Seeing all those Muslim refugees ignited his Christian soul! What a humanitarian.
It was a policy that was criminal and immoral. And it united the USSR and kept it together. And it created Ossama bin Laden and led to 911.
That is what this Charlie Wilson is in denial about. You can make as many movies as you want, but that does not change the facts.
No, Charlie Wilson, you did not bring down the Soviet Union by creating Ossama. You only engaged in an immoral and criminal act that resulted in 911, when your mujahedeen Freedom Fly Boys killed 3,000 Americans.
The truth is not as pretty as lies. So go ahead and continue in your delusions, Charlie Wilson.
Mr. Savich, your comments are as interesting to read as is this superb column by one and only Dr. Trifkovic.
I agree with your comment on America's guilt and crimes committed against the Serbs in the last decade and a half. But American has not been the only perpetrator of these crimes - we must not forget that Germany, UK and major Muslim countries deserve the same condemnation.
As for Albanians - their hate towards Serbs has blinded their horizons and prevented them to see that they are being used by their mentors. Albanians will never have Serbian Kosovo as their independent “state”!!!! Serbs will retain Kosovo!
@64 Matra
"...willingness to back up their demands with physical force."
If you call burning churches, throwing rocks at praying nuns, and then hiding behind NATO troops physical force, then let me remind you that the KLA ran like cowards when the Serbs entered Kosovo in the late 90s. This is so typical of the region. The Serbs are the only group brave enough to stand on their own two feet on the battlefield throughout their entire history. All the others resort to cheap terrorist tactics (ie, Albanians, Bosnian muslims). Even to the north our wonderful friends the Croatians would have nothing if it weren't for Naziism and Vatican-backed clerical facism in WWII (which our friend Michael Warning @53 above likely supports) and NATO/US interventionism during Operation Storm in the 90s waging attacks directly on fleeing lines of civilians.
I honestly believe that all the intense hatred displayed at the Serbs stems directly from their refusal to take orders from the Empires of history. All the other members of the former Yugoslavia only wish they had that kind of fortitude.
Patience my dear Matra. The Serbs will reclaim Kosovo. This is only the beginning.
And to Michael Warning @51 who states that "force is all the Serbs understand" in response to EVERY Trifkovic article, just take a look at our next door neighbors throughout history. One learns pretty quickly to become a warrior when surrounded by such characters.
Patience my dear Matra. The Serbs will reclaim Kosovo. This is only the beginning.
Only if the forces of deracination don't succeed in turning to Serbs into another post-national people. George Soros already has a foothold in the Serb media and something like 70% of Serbs want to join the EU.
So far all seems quiet. The Serb entity in Bosnia doesn't seem to be planning to secede so no regional crisis is likely in the short term. Belgrade says it won't use force. I suppose the next issue will be whether the Serbs can even hold onto the parts of Kosovo where they are prominent or will the population become dejected and move thus creating a virtually Serb-free Kosovo. They could also secede from 'Kosova' but in doing so would pretty much be accepting independence thus giving up the rest of Kosovo for good. The Serbs are in a very difficult position.
Re. comment #81, simo
"... The Serbian government has contingency plans to send its army back into Kosovo. ..."
I find this difficult to believe. The CIA stooge has just "won" the presidency - and has control of Serbian military.
Otherwise, all that you say is highly plausible.
Including that the Russian help is predicated on Serbian government making a request.
This request is what I do not see coming. Short of a correction, that is. Djindjic ... er ... Tadic ... won't be around "forever", one would hope.
The Serbs are the only group brave enough to stand on their own two feet on the battlefield throughout their entire history.
Typical Balkanian bluster.
This is only the beginning.
It seems more like the denouement to me.
The Serbs will reclaim Kosovo.
Unless Serbs are prepared to transfer the Albanians out, any reclamation will be entirely useless. They didn't do it in 1912 or in 1945, when the world was better disposed to such actions; they did it either hapharzadly or not at all (depending on whose propaganda you believe) in 1999 and brought the wrath of the world to bear on themselves anyway. Thus the odds that they will undertake the one action that would make a military reclamation of Kosmet worthwhile seem remote.
Only if the forces of deracination don’t succeed in turning to Serbs into another post-national people. George Soros already has a foothold in the Serb media and something like 70% of Serbs want to join the EU.
There is already an established Chinese colony (of sorts) in Bjeljina -- an economic backwater in Republica Srpska -- for crying out loud; if these Serbs can't resist, what of the urbanites of Belgrade?
I suppose the next issue will be whether the Serbs can even hold onto the parts of Kosovo where they are prominent or will the population become dejected and move thus creating a virtually Serb-free Kosovo.
That is like wondering whether US whites will be able to hold onto parts of the Rio Grande Valley where they are "prominent": When "the other" is 95% (and rising) of the population of a given territory, I'd say "prominence" is a one-way street.
It was game over for Serbs in Kosovo since the communists came to power. Serbs like my grandfather knew it decades ago, and left. The most recalcitrant are holding out to the bitter end, but that is all they will achieve. The simple yet apparently elusive keystone of human existence is demographics is destiny.
The next people in the region to learn this harsh truth for themselves will be the Macedonians, who have on their hands another Kosovo in the making. Albanians in Skopje (25% of that city) celebrated Kosovo's declaration by spraying gunshots into the air and taunting cowering Macedonian bystanders that within a year they'd be celebrating the independance of "Illirida". There isn't a Macedonian alive who doesn't feel, at least in his heart of hearts, that Albanians (mostly, but not wholly, by virtue of being Muslims) are insufferable and undesirable neighbors, yet nowhere is there the political will to do anything about their inevitable demographic supplantation. For all the tragedy it portends, we may grant that it is an attitude unimpeachably "European".
MMK, we need Europe to be Christian as well... water makes a better border I think.
If Europe comes to its senses, I'm confidant Kosovo will be returned to its rightful owners. Muslims ought to be expelled from all of Europe. They wish to expel heretics from their Holy Lands, yea? Well, why don't we do the same, for political reasons since Europe isn't holy?
And if Western Europe doesn't come to its senses... well Serbia will be crushed anyway by Europistan unless Russia holds together.
So, better or worse, we're all tied together; Muslims are Europe's greatest enemy. (I'm American.)
Of critical importance for Serbia is an ACTION and/or INACTION by the current Serbian leaders. As of now, they have largely marginalized the national identity & national pride of the people who, by force or by will, elected them in recent years. Empty speeches, hollow words, "peaceful demonstrations", UN speech crap WILL NOT RECLAIM KOSOVO anytime soon. If history teaches us anything, there is a BIG VOID and a place for a new Obilic, Karadjordje or Pasic, if the Serbian people would have the guts to recognize them -- while the current leaders still daydream of another UN speech!
@ silver 88
I understand your points very clearly. The Serbian leadership is still dreaming of the EU and selling the Serbian people out. But I will point out one thing to you. This demographic shift that you are talking about is happening throughout Europe and will eventually lead to violence and chaos throughout the continent, and the dissolving of the EU. If you think there will be EU troops protecting Albanians then, you are mistaken. It is at this point that the Serbs will have another chance to take back Kosovo. Then they might not be so nice as they were throughout history.
There is one thing that is true. If Christianity dies in Serbia, it will die in all of Europe. In that case, the US is not that far behind either, and we are all screwed.
Response to #83 and Carl Savich:
I never gave any credit to Charlie Wilson for Afghanistan. That is a Hollywood myth. Yes, it is true that the Afghan resistance started with money donated by a number of persons, including a few wealthy, right-wing Americans, but the mujihadeen only received worn out or defective Soviet-bloc weapons. The idea was to maintain the illusion that the West was not arming the mujihadeen. Years later, the Reagan administration authorized a large, "covert" (so "secret" that Dan Rather was reporting on it from the scene) CIA progam to arm the mujihadeen with modern weapons, including Stinger missiles that brought down helicopter gunships. In truth, it was not "Charlie Wilson's War." I do believe that the war helped bring down the Soviet Union. It is all well and good that say that war is a source of unity, but the fact is that Soviet dead shipped secretely and buried without fanfare, and the Soviet Union was shocked at the poor performance of its troops. If you read about Sayyid Q'tub and the Moslem Brotherhood, it is clear that the seeds of 9/11 were planted in Greeley, Colorado, in the Forties.
That is like wondering whether US whites will be able to hold onto parts of the Rio Grande Valley where they are “prominent”: When “the other” is 95% (and rising) of the population of a given territory, I’d say “prominence” is a one-way street.
silver, Serbs are still "prominent" in Mitrovica. Presumably that is also the case in one or two other areas of the north.
I agree, though, about the Balkan bluster in this thread. I recall being told in August 1995 that Serbs would some day return to and retake Krajina. They have not exactly put up a Palestinian style resistance since then.
Muslims are Europe’s greatest enemy. (I’m American.)
For centuries Europe had no serious trouble with Muslims. That has changed in the decades since the USA became the dominant world power. Europe's ruling class could very easily resist Islam but they refuse to do so. That ruling class is completely Americanised. The don't believe in rooted nations. Muslims are merely taking advantage of the opportunity presented to them on a platter. But it wasn't Islam that convinced Europe to believe in social Marxism, proposition nations, and corporate capitalism.
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Russia says EU seeking to oust UN mission from Kosovo
MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - A senior Russian official claimed on Wednesday that the European Union seeks to oust the UN mission from Kosovo.
"The objective of the EU's actions is clear - to oust from Kosovo the UN mission that operates there under [UN] Security Council Resolution 1244 and other decisions by the council. Russia is categorically against such developments," Alexander Konuzin, director of the Foreign Ministry's department for international organizations, told Interfax.
"We will use all lawful political and diplomatic means in countering those unilateral coercive actions," Konuzin said.
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http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11973719
Nice gesture, but hardly of practical value
How is it that the Neo-cons have so much power as to create an independent Kosovo? What does a Chronicle reader call himself? I would like to know. And how come not one of you Chronicle readers/writers were able to have any influence in this Kosovo matter. I find it very interesting that in what you guys are against, you can do nothing about. It’s like you all are out of the loop or your opinions do not matter and your arguments are not convincing. Because Kosovo is now independent. How is it that none of you were able to stop this? I know what a neo-con is but what do you guys call yourselves? I need to know to say some time in the near future see how these.…. so and so…. supported the Serbs to their own detriment..
I'm still in shock. One thing that comes to mind is the Civil War and the declaration of Independence by the Confederate States ... but does the rest of it speak for itself?
jmcnulty,
You write, "The war in Afghanistan directly led to the fall of the Soviet Union. "
Please outline the steps from the Afghan war to the fall of the USSR:
Carl, I hope you're not implying that there was no widespread persecution of practicing Christians in the USSR. You would be clearly wrong on that one.
Mr Warning, everyone here seems to realise that posting on blogs will not change history. What have you done to change the world? Tell us all what you can do yourself to change the course of history, and what you actually have done. Otherwise, stop this petty nonsense so that this blog doesn't degenerate into name calling while an important event is taking place.
One of the failures leading up to this was Serbia not restoring Metohija back to it's pre-Communist rightful owner-the Serbian Orthodox Church.They could have invited in peacekeepers from other Orthodox countries.
The other mistake was not sending in troops when the Albanians were attacking the Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica a few years ago.
As to the comment on Serbia not having any nuclear weapons-they had a small reactor at Vinca that Russia orchestrated to be taken away post the NATO bombing.
@99 Allen Wilson
Thanks for your comment Allen. We were all getting pretty tired of Mr Warning. I think he just like to hear himself speak.
On behalf of all Albanians throughout the world, allow me to express my deepest and sincerest condolences on your loss, not to worry, Kosova is in the hands of her beloved Illirian ancestry.