I’m ignorant regarding Balkan policy as well . . . I’m just reacting at gut level to supporting a breakaway Muslim state in Europe. It seems a little goofy. We could have opted to say nothing.
Excellent opinion piece from John Bolton et al:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080131/COMMENTARY/288472699/0/FOREIGN
Probably not. Remember the old admonition that "fools names and fools faces are always seen in public places?"
Neither a politician nor a bureaucrat can stand to have his opinion not heard, even when the opinion is wrong.