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Well,

The US executed a war over a decade ago, of which the Europeans where the political instruments. Today the Europeans more than anyone else have plans of how the future development of the Balkans and the political landscape should look. However, it is of course always “about the oil,” “Bush’s fault,” and “America” which should do this or that different. All eyes are always on us, for we are the big kid on the block the leader of the pact in the West. However, from an international tribunal in Europe, the nations that present day have large numbers of troops on the ground in this region, to the present day Kosovo plans; most of this is a European doing, a European problem, in which we a decade ago were pulled in on because as a NATO member state and allied nation we had obligations towards our partners once called upon. Remember that when the Germans say “Nein” in Iraq, or that they want to do as little as possible in Afghanistan, Somalia, not grant the US over flight rights etc.

"...this is a European doing, a European problem, in which we a decade ago were pulled in on because as a NATO member state and allied nation we had obligations towards our partners once called upon."

Not quite so.

To the best of my knowledge we have no obligation under NATO to invade a country (1) neighboring NATO (2) that has not threatened, not even argued with, any of the NATO members since (3) it was allied against NAZI Germany in WW2, and (4) with an illegal immigration problem of, literally, biblical proportions.
Did I mention that for the most part they (5) were not shooting back?

You are right to state that it is a European thing, precisely, a German/Croatian/Albanian thing. It is, however, totally wrong to suggest even a shred of justification for Clinton's happily doing the dirty work ten years ago or for Bush's childish rush to utterly trash the UN resolution that put an end to the assault on Serbia in 1999!

Serbs are not the only people to be pissed off, anyone with respect and / or faith in what the USA stands for should be rioting as well.

As to someone's whine that burning the embassy is an act of war - WE BOMBED THEM FOR OVER SEVENTY DAYS: WHAT WOULD THEY CALL THAT? We have no reason to have an embassy there anyway because the Serbs have no reason to believe anything we have to say to them.