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Balkans For Dummies, Part II: The Kosovo War

by 1389AD ( 97 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, History, Kosovo, Orthodox Christianity, Serbia at September 9th, 2012 - 8:00 pm

It all started with Bill Clinton’s war on women

The governor of Arkansas had raped a woman and somebody had to pay. The wheels of justice grind slowly, but somebody would eventually pay. Most crimes have statutes of limitation that prevent prosecution if charges have not been brought for a sufficient number of years. And the statute of limitation on this rape had run, but somebody did pay–the Serbian people. The sad part is that the culpable governor was not a Serb at all!

By that time, the rapist governor of Arkansas had become president of the United States. Not just any president of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton was only the second US president to be impeached. The Democrats in the Senate made it clear that Clinton would stay in office no matter what facts came out at the impeachment trial, but a few more felines had slipped out of the sack. One newly-disclosed secret could have brought down Bill Clinton even after he had survived the impeachment trial.

It was early 1999.Bill Clinton as Pinocchio The impeachment trial was over and talk of sexual activity was everywhere. Clinton and his minions had put out the word: “everybody lies about sex.” It seemed like promiscuity was the norm. The whole Constitutional process had been hijacked. The fact that the President of the United States had committed the high crime of perjury seemed immaterial. Democrats are almost always excused for sexual misconduct, while Republicans are always put out of office. It takes something more than mere adultery to derail a Democrat.

Juanita Broaddrick had something more, a credible tale of rape. She appeared on national television and sounded very credible. Clinton had a serious problem. He could have gone down in history as the first President to be impeached twice. Even if he stayed in office, his last year would be seriously marred. His wife, Hillary, made no secret of the fact that she was hoping to become the second President Clinton. As the wife of an unfaithful husband, she might even get sympathy votes. As the wife of a rapist, she might not be perceived in such a good light. And the same liberals who had just agreed that adultery was an OK thing would have to either endorse a man’s ‘right’ to rape, or turn on Bill Clinton.

When in trouble, stir up a crisis and don’t let it go to waste

WIN ButtonWhat could Clinton do? He had to do what presidents in serious trouble – or who want to make a name for themselves – normally do: stir up a crisis and go deal with it. Franklin Roosevelt created new public spending programs that flew in the face of the Constitution. John Kennedy focused on his space race to the Moon. Lyndon Johnson started a war in Vietnam. Richard Nixon went to China. Gerald Ford printed up some WIN (Whip Inflation Now) lapel buttons. Jimmy Carter assured anyone who would listen that the energy crisis was ‘real.’ Clinton needed a way to look important and to take the focus off the fact that he was a rapist.

So, what could he have done? Osama bin Laden was at large and had already attacked US embassies. Clinton had missed a few chances to capture him before, so now he could have simply grabbed him and perhaps prevented the 9-11 attack. But the general public didn’t know much about bin Laden or al-Qaeda yet. Clinton could have focused on the problems that were brewing at the Mexican border. He could have worked with a then-functioning Mexican government and States bordering Mexico to clear up the problem, thus halting the increase in violence and drug cartel activity, and, perhaps, helping our neighbor to the South remain stable. Or Clinton could have publicly repented. He could have declared himself a sex addict and asked for forgiveness. He could have called for America to reassert itself as a Christian nation even if that required a Constitutional amendment.

Instead, Clinton reached for a juicier target. In a world that that still felt that Hitler should have been stopped earlier, Clinton sought to create a new ‘Hitler,’ a new ‘nationalistic people,’ and find a new war to start to prevent a ‘new Holocaust’. But where could he look? It had to be a relatively small country, as he could not afford a big war. It had to be a people with a substantial amount of modern technology, as nobody seems to care about the next genocide in the third world. It had to be a distant culture that Americans knew little about. And he had to be able to concoct a clearly definable goal, as blundering into a new Vietnam would only make things worse for him. But where could Clinton find this dog to wag?

Then it dawned on him: Yugoslavia! He could make Slobodan Milosevic into his new ‘Hitler.’ He could accuse the Serbs of excessive ‘nationalism.’ While the Serbs had committed no genocide of any kind, he could invent a new term that would imply it: ‘ethnic cleansing.’ Of course, the term didn’t make any sense, but who cares; this is Bill Clinton, one of history’s smoothest liars; some call him the godfather of lies.

What about the clearly definable goal? That seemed simple enough. Yugoslavia was breaking up faster a Hollywood marriage of the 1950s. In the poorest, most seemingly insignificant part of Yugoslavia, the Serbian Christian population was disappearing and the Albanian Muslim population was increasing. It was the perfect goal. Clinton wouldn’t even have to rely on the troops on the ground. He would merely bomb the Serbs until they agreed to give up Kosovo entirely. It would be like asking a beautiful American city to give up its most impoverished neighborhood, or so he thought.

The Holy Land of Kosovo

Not very many people in a American had ever heard of Kosovo or knew what it meant to the Serbian people. For that matter, not many Americans knew what a Serb was; for all they knew, the Serbs could have been a political party in Yugoslavia or a social/cultural movement in the Balkans. The Serbs’ homeland had been known as Yugoslavia since the 1920s. Indeed, Americans who were poorly versed in European history frequently confused Serbia with Siberia.

NATO bomb with inscription: 'Do you still wanna be a Serb now!!'
No, it is impossible to stop being a Serb.

As a typically ignorant American, Clinton was in for a real surprise. It turns out that Serbs are an ethnic people. Well, not only an ethnic people, but an ethnic people with cohesive religious ties. Sort of like the Greeks are expected to be Greek Orthodox. Or how the people in Ireland are expected to be Roman Catholic. Much like the Jews can be thought of as a people or as a religion, but normally they are both. Those who know Serbs know that Orthodoxy is every bit as much a part of their culture as it is to the Greeks. Clinton’s paint-the-Serbs-as-Nazis strategy had nothing to do with the facts. If anything, Clinton marched in Hitler’s footsteps by scapegoating and demonizing the Serbs.

Another real surprise was that Kosovo was not some insignificant impoverished province that the Serbs would be money ahead just to jettison. It turns out that Kosovo was the most important part of Serbia. The Serbs’ history, faith and heart were all centered in Kosovo. Kosovo was a land of monasteries and monks, of churches and of worship, of beautiful scenery and beautiful national memories. Asking the Serbs to give up Kosovo was like asking them to give up their very souls.

Go Ahead Bomb Us! We Have Traveled This Road Before

Косово је СрбијаThe reaction of the Serbian people was almost unprecedented. They politely told the world, “Косово је Србија.” In English, that is “Kosovo is Serbia.” Young people went to parties. Workers reported for work every day. Families went about their lives almost like nothing out of the normal was going on. Serbs have a stoic turn of mind, so they made jokes, sort of a weird gallows humor, about their current situation.

The city of Belgrade surrounds the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers. Several large bridges tie the city together. One bridge was considered vital, so the Serbs devised an interesting defense program. Volunteer citizens agreed to keep a vigil on that bridge every night, a human shield against the bombing. It reminds us of the martyrs of the Early Church recorded in the Bible, and even the Jewish martyrs in the Old Testament. Note that those martyrs usually waited for the authorities to round them up; they didn’t tend to go out looking for an opportunity to give their lives for the faith.

Map of Belgrade

Martyrdom is nothing new for the Serbian people. Fighting against an aggressor is in the Serbian genes. For example, during World War I, the Serbian people suffered more civilian combat causalities than military combat casualties. No, I do not mean, “collateral damage” causalities. These were actual civilians who took up arms for the defense of Serbia and were killed or wounded in action.

The Land Where Empires Die

The Ottoman Turkish Empire conquered the Serbian people. They held the Serbian people in slavery for roughly five centuries. What happened to the Ottoman Turks? The Serbs and their allies defeated them in World War I and there is no more empire and no more Ottomans.

The Habsburgs and their Austro-Hungarian Empire attacked the Serbs during World War I. World War I also brought and end to the Habsburg Dynasty and its empire.

Hitler and his Nazis had a powerful empire in the 1930s and early 1940s. The American aviator, Charles Lindbergh, called the Nazi war machine “unbeatable.” Well, the Serbs and their allies put an end to Nazis in World War II.

After World War II, a great Communist empire reached its tentacles as far as the Balkans. Decades went by with the West fearing nuclear war. Appeasement and detente seemed like the best that could be hoped for. Few dreamed that it would ever crumble. Once Communist seemed to mean always Communist. At first, Tito’s regime was synonymous with Soviet Communism, if not out-and-out Stalinism. Even after Tito broke with the Soviet bloc, Yugoslavia remained Communist. In Yugoslavia, any Serb who would dare even refer to himself as a “Serb” risked imprisonment. From the point of view of preserving one’s faith and culture, the Communist slavery was possibly the worst that a Serb might ever endure. Heck, the Ottoman Turks may have put you in chains, raped your daughters, kidnapped your sons and made them in to Janissaries, but they never prevent you from calling yourself a “Serb.” Yet, as the 1980s drew to a close, Tito died, and so did the Communist empire in Europe.

These empires all died, yet the Serbian people survived. One wonders: Which will last longer, the Serbian people or the US government? If history is any guide, you know how to place your bet.

The US Ran Out of Bombs, So Clinton Agreed to the Serbian Terms

Before Clinton and his NATO allies unleashed their bombing raid on the Serbs, he gave the Serbs an ultimatum. It is kind of funny that the first big war of the twentieth century and last big war of the twentieth century both started the same way. One of the greatest superpowers of the day gives the Serbian people an ultimatum and the Serbs say, “No, we would rather die than sacrifice our principles.”

Both the ultimatum that lead up to World War I and the ultimatum that lead up to the Kosovo had a lot in common and could not be accepted by any independent nation. Yet, the 1999 ultimatum differed from the 1914 ultimatum in one hideous respect, Kosovo. In 1999, the Serbs were told that the “reasonable” Albanians in Kosovo had already accepted an agreement for the future of Kosovo. All the Serbs had to do was sign on to it without a single word of input from the Serbian side. Never mind that giving up Kosovo was illegal back in Belgrade. “Just sign the paper and go home a criminal, Slobo! It is that or war!”

The Serbs had agreed to take their army out of Kosovo, to bring in the international KFOR “peacekeepers”, but they could not relinquish it. The Serbs had already granted the Albanians living in Kosovo many special rights, but they could not give up their holy land.

So, Clinton and his NATO forces bombed the Serbs for 78 days and 78 nights. Reports of damage were everywhere. America expected a quick victory as they had achieved in the 1991 Operation Desert Storm. The superior US weapons were supposed to bring the Serbs into submission. But the defiance continued. Clinton was getting nowhere.

The American people were ambivalent toward the war. The liberals were not protesting; no surprise, as it was a liberal Democrat’s war. The so-called “peace movement” showed its true colors as a left-wing extremist movement, which often hijacks legitimate sentiment against fruitless adventures. But from another standpoint, the war was indeed a success: after two and a half months, the American people had forgotten about the rapist-in-chief’s misadventures in Arkansas.

Further to the east, Red China was rumbling; they might have to take back Taiwan as Lincoln had taken back the American South. The White House responded: “Hey, that was different!” However, a lot of people in Dixieland know that is not. Other hot spots in the world were bringing a sobering reality to that mansion on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. What if the US were to face a real crisis somewhere? Where are the bombs going come from to deal with it?

So, to stop wasting bombs on the Serbs, Clinton decided that if Milosevic would just take his army out of Kosovo, then Kosovo would remain part of Serbia. Once the KFOR “peacekeepers” are in place and the dust settles, the Serbian army would be permitted come back into Kosovo to defend the monasteries and religious shrines.

So, did the Serbs keep their part of the bargain? Yes, the army left Kosovo immediately. Did those KFOR “peacekeepers” jump right in and keep the peace? Well, not so much. That weekend in June saw a bit of a delay with the KFOR. Fortunately, one country did come in for a time to prevent the Albanian Muslims from killing off countless Serbs. Thanks, Russia! We knew we could count on you when the chips are down. Just as the Russians took the lead fighting the Nazis in World War II while Western powers kept their ground forces off the European continent, the Russian KFOR jumped into Kosovo while the rest of the world slept.

How about the rest of the bargain; did the US keep it? Just ask any American Indian how well the US government keeps its bargains!

Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Musutiste (Suva Reka), 1315
Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Musutiste (Suva Reka),
built in 1315,before the destruction (source)

Destruction of Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Musutiste
Church of the Dormition in Musutiste,
burned and later completely demolished by explosive, July 1999 (source)

What Was Learned in the Aftermath

During the 78 days of bombing, the western lame-stream media reported considerable damage to Serbia. But, when the dust cleared, it was mostly damage to civilian targets. The Western media claimed that most of the Serbs’ 200 tanks in Kosovo had been destroyed. Yet, after the war, about 250 Serbian tanks actually left Kosovo. It turned out that many of the “destroyed” tanks were old discarded tanks or other objects used as decoys. The Serbs deployed convincing decoy aircraft as well. Evidence was found that many of the roads “destroyed” during the bombing were just lines painted to look like roads from the sky. It was learned that Serbs had rigged microwave ovens to run with their doors open. The bombers’ instruments thought they detected a nice juicy military target that was really just a microwave in the middle of nowhere. The Serbs had proved to be masters of deception and caused the NATO forces to waste a lot explosive power bombing valueless decoys.

Of course, we were promised all sorts of evidence of “ethnic cleansing” which was billed as a new holocaust. Given that a war had been ragging in Kosovo for years, the actual number of recent deaths was fairly low. All the so-called “mass graves” turned out to contain mostly Serbian bodies. Often these so-called “mass graves” were actually individual graves at cemeteries where burials had been performed in the normal manner. Other sites proved to contain human remains from the Second World War or earlier.

After the second War with Iraq, the left-leaning American media complained incessantly about the lack of evidence that the Iraqis had any weapons of mass destruction. Yet, more than a decade later and we still have no evidence of any pogroms committed by Serbs in Kosovo or anywhere else. Over a decade on, the media takes pains to avoid that topic.

If this article seems a little one-sided and simplistic, GOOD! What you have heard about the Balkans in the American media has been extremely pro-Muslim and made to seem overly complicated. Had the truth been known, American foreign policy relating to the Balkans would have been considerably different for the past 60 or even 70 years. Learn the truth and spread it. It is never too late to change course.

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The Rape of Serbian Women

by 1389AD ( 108 Comments › )
Filed under Bosnia, Crime, Islamic hypocrisy, Media, Serbia, United Nations at October 5th, 2010 - 8:30 am

Jihad Watch: The Rape of Serbian Women

by Stella L. Jatras
(Letter to Phyllis Chesler of Chesler Chronicles)

Dear Phyllis,

I apologize for the length of my letter, but there is so much to be covered on this subject in order to do it justice.

In your commentary of 28 July entitled, “Is Marital Rape a Crime in America or Is It a Muslim Religious Right?,” Chesler Chronicles, you wrote: “In this regard, rape was declared a crime against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. [ICTY] I was tentatively supposed to testify about Rape Trauma Syndrome in the case in The Hague, but there was no funding to either protect or relocate the women who were prepared to testify, and thus, these trials were canceled.”

My concern is the distorted application of the rape declaration by the ICTY. Anything from the ICTY, a bought and paid for tool of the western powers, can only be seen in light of the objectives of those powers, especially Washington. A major objective — which was achieved — was to make the Muslims the victims in Bosnia and Serbs the villains. Paradoxically, that contrived victimization is itself a weapon in depicting any concerns about Islam here — including victimization of women, not as helping protect human rights, but as a propaganda tool to justify discrimination, racism, etc.

In that context, the accusations of mass rape – and specifically of “Serb rape camps,” which were never shown to have existed anywhere — was part of a calculated campaign of depicting Muslims-white-hats and Serbs-black-hats. I draw your attention to a letter written by Herb Brin of Heritage Southwest Jewish Press to President Clinton on 14 April 1994: “When I visited the Serbian front a year ago, I learned to my dismay that the rape story was a total concoction. In wars, rapes occur–but in the hundreds of thousands and as a means of so-called ‘ethnic cleansing?’ This was incredible and false.” Certainly rapes are committed in wartime, even worse in communal wars. There is no evidence that Bosnia was any worse (or better) than anywhere else where comparable conflicts have taken place. Tragically, the crime of the actual rapes that occurred was compounded by the use of false accusations of rape as a propaganda weapon, which is what the west and the Muslims did. Such false accusations both paste a damning accusation on the party not guilty of the wrongdoing, while devaluing the horror of actual rapes committed.

The fact that the ICTY declares rape a crime against humanity — a fact obvious to any normal person, ICTY or no ICTY — should not be given much weight, given the source. In fact, it serves to devalue the problem of rape during wartime because the ICTY shamefully used what should have been a principled legal finding as a blatant political propaganda weapon.

There is no question that even one rape is unspeakable, but with all due respect, I would like to present the other side of the story regarding the rapes that occurred in Bosnia, specifically the rape of Serbian women which were deemed to be insignificant by the media and by The Hague…

Unnoticed by the media was the submission on December 18, 1992, of the length report #S24491 by the UN Security Council to the General Assembly. The report included depositions by Serb rape victims.[emphasis mine]

Read it all at Jihad Watch!

What has been done about this?

Absolutely nothing whatsoever.

Some years ago, when it proved impossible to substantiate any of the rape-camp allegations against the Serbs, those stories simply vanished from the newspapers, magazines, and television screens, with no apologies and no retractions. The upshot is that the Serbs, including these Serb rape victims, are off the world’s radar screen. Susan Sontag, Christiane Amanpour, and many other journalistic and political whores built (or revived) their careers on Serb-bashing during the 1990s and early 2000s. Not a single one of them was ever called to account for the damage done by the lies they told. Thus far, none of these journalists have been a big enough person to sacrifice his or her career by repenting of those lies, telling the truth, and demanding justice for victimized Serbs.

It’s all too common for people who don’t have all the facts about an accusation to insist that “When there’s smoke, there’s fire.” Bzzzzt, wrong! Even smoke can be fake, as any special-effects artist can tell you.

Another mistake is to split the difference by assuming that the truth must be somewhere in the middle; for example, by claiming that all sides in a war have committed atrocities. Here again, that is not necessarily so, and so long as there is no proof that one side committed atrocities, then it behooves you to assume that they did not.

It is time to form (or reinforce) the habit of automatically doubting the nonsense spewed by government officials, journalists, or anybody else who has widespread access to the media. False accusations are everywhere, and so are people who serve as vectors for false accusations by uncritically repeating them. Just about every evildoer tries to evade punishment by pinning his or her own misdeeds on someone else. More ambitious evildoers can fabricate wrongdoing on the part of their opponents, and then use the media to manipulate others to do their fighting for them. In the case of the war against the Serbs, the jihadis and their allies fooled America and Europe into taking the wrong side in that conflict and fighting most of their battles for them. The same Muslim enemies who were active against the Serbs in the Balkans are now using the same tactics against Israel and the US.

Don’t fall for it!

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The ICJ Ruling and the Quisling Regime in Serbia

by 1389AD ( 127 Comments › )
Filed under Islamic Invasion, Kosovo, Serbia, Tranzis, United Nations at July 24th, 2010 - 1:30 pm

Kosovo is Serbia graphic, in English

In ICJ Ruling: Blow to Serbia, Boon to Tadic, noted author and scholar Srdja Trifkovic explains that the current government in Serbia is, in effect, nothing but a puppet regime that is selling out the Serbian people, and Judaeo-Christian civilization in the Balkans, to jihadi forces in the Balkans.

The back story is that, ever since Reagan left office, the US, NATO, and the EU have worked to assist the jihadis to form a Muslim stronghold in the Balkans. Obviously, this is counter to the interests of the US and of the nations that form the EU. (See Bosnia and Kosovo export Muslim terrorism everywhere.) But our politicians and State Department bureaucrats do the bidding of Middle Eastern oil interests, George Soros, and other nefarious individuals and groups such as Muslim narcoterrorist drug gangs, who covertly bankroll prominent members of the elite in politics, academia, think tanks, the media, and other areas of influence.

As I have pointed out before, the UN is thoroughly corrupt. Just about all NGOs do the bidding of this transnational elite. That obviously includes supposedly “neutral” entities such as the ICJ. The bureaucrats who enjoy cushy jobs at NGOs know what side their bread is buttered on, and they also know what the consequences of defying their masters inevitably must be.

Because the current government in Belgrade is nothing but a powerless American puppet that does nothing to protect the interests of the Serbian people, it is no surprise that the Tadic government will use the decision of the ICJ as a way to try to sell the Serbian people on the idea that they had better give up Kosovo, and continue to throw the remaining Serbs stranded there, under the bus – or else.

As Dr. Trifkovic points out, the time frame is much longer than anybody in Washington or The Hague is capable of comprehending. Kosovo has been Serbian as long as the Serbs have existed, the truth will eventually come out, and God is not mocked.

ICJ Ruling: Blow to Serbia, Boon to Tadic
By Srdja Trifkovic
Thursday, July 22, 2010 – 13:20

Ever since the U.S. intervened in Serbia’s domestic politics two years ago and helped the current coalition take power in Belgrade, Boris Tadic and his cohorts have been looking for a way to capitulate on Kosovo while pretending not to. The formula was simple: place all diplomatic eggs in one basket – that of the International Court of Justice – and refrain from using any other political or economic (let alone military) tools at Serbia’s disposal. On July 22 the ICJ performed on cue, declaring that Kosovo’s UDI was not illegal.

It should be noted that the ICJ has only assessed Kosovo’s declaration of independence; it has not considered more widely Kosovo’s right to unilateral secession from Serbia. Furthermore, the ICJ has not assessed either the consequences of the adoption of the UDI, namely whether Kosovo is a state, or the legitimacy of its recognition by a number of countries. The ICJ decision was unsurprising in view of the self-defeating question which the UN General Assembly posed at Serbia’s request: “Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo in accordance with international law?” As a former British diplomat who knows the Balkans well has noted, international law takes no notice of declarations of independence, unilateral or otherwise; they are irrelevant:

[I]f the town council down the road here in the UK makes a solemn unilateral declaration of the town’s independence from the UK, the rest of us will make a wry smile and go back to blogging or working. The declaration is ‘in accordance’ with UK law – free speech and all that. [ … ] If citizens of our town en masse support the declaration of independence, put up road-blocks, stop paying taxes to Westminster and proclaim Vladimir Putin their new king with his consent, things begin to get more interesting. Norms are being created and broken in all directions.

The ICJ has done more than its share of norm-creation. Its advisory opinion is deeply flawed and non-binding, but the government in Belgrade now has a perfect alibi for doing what it had intended to do all along.

Following the appointment of Vuk Jeremic as Serbia’s foreign minister in 2007, this outcome could be predicted with near-certainty. As President Boris Tadic’s chief foreign policy advisor, Jeremic came to Washington on 18 May 2005 to testify in Congress on why Kosovo should stay within Serbia. In his subsequent off-the-record conversations, however, he assured his hosts that the task was really to sugar-coat the bitter Kosovo pill that Serbia would have to swallow anyway.

Two years later another advisor to Tadic, Dr. Leon Kojen, resigned in a blaze of publicity after Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer declared, on April 13, 2007, “We are working with Boris Tadic and his people to find a way to implement the essence of the Ahtisaari plan.” Tout Belgrade knew that “Tadic’s people” meant—Vuk Jeremic. Gusenbauer’s indiscretion amounted to the revelation that Serbia’s head of state and his closest advisor were engaged in secret negotiations aimed at facilitating the detachment of Kosovo from Serbia—which, of course, was “the essence of the Ahtisaari plan.” Jeremic’s quest for sugar-coating of the bitter pill was evidently in full swing even before he came to the helm of Serbia’s diplomacy.

In the intervening three years Tadic and Jeremic have continued to pursue a dual-track policy on Kosovo. The decisive fruit of that policy was their disastrous decision to accept the European Union’s Eulex Mission in Kosovo in December 2008. Acting under an entirely self-created mandate, the EU thus managed to insert its mission, based explicitly on the provisions of the Ahtissari Plan, into Kosovo with Belgrade’s agreement.

That was the moment of Belgrade’s true capitulation. Everything else — the ICJ ruling included — is just a choreographed farce…

The ICJ opinion crowns two decades of U.S. policy in the former Yugoslavia that has been mendacious and iniquitous in equal measure. By retroactively condoning the Albanian UDI, the Court 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.

Aiding and abetting Muslim designs in the Balkans, in the hope that this will earn some credit for the United States in the Islamic world, has been a major motive of American policy in the region since at least 1992. It has never yielded any dividends, of course, but repeated failure only prompts the architects of the policy to redouble their efforts.

It is virtually certain that Washington will be equally supportive of an independent Sanjak that would connect Kosovo with Bosnia, or of any other putative Islamistan, from western Macedonia to southern Bulgaria (“Eastern Rumelia”) to the Caucasus. The late Tom Lantos must be smiling approvingly wherever he is now, having called, three years ago, on “Jihadists of all color and hue” to take note of “yet another example that the United States leads the way for the creation of a predominantly Muslim country in the very heart of Europe.”

In the region, the ICJ verdict will encourage two distinct but interconnected trends: greater-Albanian aspirations against Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece, and rump-Serbia (Preševo), and pan-Islamic agitation for the completion of the Green Corridor – an Islamic belt anchored in Asia Minor and extending north-westward across the Balkans into the heart of Central Europe.

Beyond the Balkans, it will breed instability in each and every potential or actual separatist hotspot, from Galilee to Kashmir, from the Caucasus to Sinkiang.

Kosovo is now an expensive albatross costing American and European taxpayers a few billion a year. It will continue developing, not as a functional economy but as a black hole of criminality and 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, over there and here at home.

God acts in mysterious ways. 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 Priština and at The Hague notwithstanding. It will be tangibly Serbian again when the current experiment in global hegemonism collapses, and when the very names of its potentates and servants – Boris Tadic and Vuk Jeremic included – are consigned to the Recycle Bin of history.

Here’s the same article in Serbian.

Be sure to visit The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies to read many other articles about the Balkans counterjihad and how US and EU foreign policy has consistently favored our jihadi enemies.

Kosovo is Serbia graphic, in Serbian

(hattip to NoThreat2U)

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The Balkan Problem, Part 2a.

by coldwarrior ( 83 Comments › )
Filed under Balkans, Islamists, Kosovo, Military, Terrorism at December 30th, 2009 - 5:00 pm

The Balkan Problem, Part 2a

 

Did the US and NATO pick the wrong side in the Yugoslavian Wars?

Submitted 30 Dec 2009

 

Next is Part 2b: Who are the KLA?

 

Please see Part 1 here

 

See this link for a Timeline of the Yugoslav wars

 

Yugoslavia_ethnic_map

 

We ended Part 1 by attempting to understand why the Serbian Army and the Paramilitary Scorpions (both Serb Orthodox) perpetrated the massacre at Srebrenica; we also noted the lack of reporting on the history of violence between the Muslims and Catholics against the Serbian Orthodox in the region.

 

I would like to move back a few years to 1990 for some further background. The Communist government collapsed and the elections in the former Yugoslav Republics returned nationalist provincial governments. Marshall Tito’s dream of a unified and peaceful Yugoslavia was soon to die a very violent death.

 

The first country to walk out of the Yugoslavian government was Slovenia, this was easy for them as they were ethnically and religiously homogeneous. Croatia was next to try to leave rump Yugoslavia, this was going to be problematic at best. The map shows that several areas of Croatia were majority Serb. The problem was the Croatian Defense minister was caught on tape arming civilian Croats in preparation of a fight with the Serbian Army and the Croatian Government entities that did not side with the Catholic Croatians, many of the comments on the tape alert the Serbs that nationalism will be used against them in Croatia.

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