Posted on 02/26/2008 3:45:21 AM PST by Doctor13
The decision by Britain, America and certain other European countries to recognise Kosovo as an independent state is mind-blowingly stupid and suicidal and of a piece with their obvious determination to capitulate in the war for civilisation. It is a rotten decision for the following reasons:
1) It endorses a breach of a country's right to maintain its own integrity. Serbia is a properly constituted democratic country. To recognise the validity of such a secession is to undermine the principle of a country's right to determine its own composition. It puts up two fingers to international law, which explicitly recognises Serbian authority over Kosovo and upholds a state’s right to its own sovereignty. It opens the way for any other breakaway movement to do the same, both in the Balkans and around the world. So Tamils can now claim a precedent for seceding from Sri Lanka, Corsicans from France, Basques from Spain. And after Kosovo, can Scotland be far behind?
2) It asserts that religion matters more than nationality. This is multiculturalism taken to its lunatic natural conclusion. It says in effect that nationality is not the glue that must bind people of different creeds together, but religion or ethnicity can be allowed to break the nation apart. Every nation with restive ethnic minorities will now be undermined by this endorsement of illegal Balkanisation. Serbians will now find themselves foreigners in their own country. And as Eldad Beck applies the same thinking to Israel -- whose kamikaze government is said to be ‘thinking about’ recognising Kosovo too -- a horrific potential scenario presents itself:
In contradiction to all the pessimistic predictions, Israel and the Palestinians are able to successfully conclude negotiations on a final-status agreement, among other things based to incentives provided by the European Union. In the final stages of negotiations, Israeli representatives cave in to international pressure and waive the demand to recognize Israel’s unique Jewish character.
A short while after the agreement is signed, an uprising breaks out in the Galilee, in the Triangle area, and in the southern Negev desert, with Arab Israelis demanding a cultural and political autonomy that would enable them to manage their own lives while disconnecting from the State of Israel’s ‘Jewish’ institutions.
The bloody clashes between the sides prompt the United Nations to call on Israel to restrain itself and consider the deployment of multinational forces to serve as a buffer. The European Union threatens to renounce Israel’s special status if it fails to act immediately in order to meet the demands of the minority living within it. Israel’s dependence on the EU is so great that it is forced to capitulate and turn into a ‘greater Tel Aviv’ shtetl.
3) It gives victory to the forces of ethnic cleansing. Although the Serbs under Milosevic committed atrocities, the Kosovars started the killing in their revolt against a sovereign country and drove out between 150,000 and 200,000 Serbs. In the past eight years 1,248 non-Albanians have been killed, with many more kidnapped, now presumed dead. 151 spiritual and cultural monuments in Kosovo have been destroyed by Albanians and 213 mosques built with money from Saudi Arabia. Eighty per cent of graveyards have been destroyed or desecrated, with no response from the international community. The Albanians have turned Christian graveyards into car parks, playgrounds and rubbish dumps. Anything relating to Serbia or Christianity libraries, public records, books, names of places and even towns have been wiped out.
4) Most important of all, an independent Muslim Kosovo is a beachhead for radical Islam in Europe. Al Qaeda has been operating in Kosovo since the early 1990s. Jihadis from Yemen and Chechnya have been fighting with the Kosovo Liberation Army and Saudi is pouring money into the Kosovo mosques thus turning them into Wahhabi hotbeds of radicalism. Caroline Glick notes in the Jerusalem Post:
In 2006, John Gizzi reported in Human Events that the German intelligence service BND had confirmed that the 2005 terrorist bombings in Britain and the 2004 bombings in Spain were organized in Kosovo. Furthermore, ‘The man at the center of the provision of the explosives in both instances was an Albanian, operating mostly out of Kosovo... who is the second ranking leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Niam Behzloulzi.’
It was at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 that some 70,000 died to keep the Islamic Ottoman Empire from advancing further into Europe. What is the point of fighting the jihad in Iraq when we are cheerfully opening the door to it in that very same place?
Russia’s President Putin has warned that recognising Kosovo will rebound very badly upon the countries who have blundered into endorsing it. The fact that this outcome is merely the inevitable consequence of the war so unwisely prosecuted by those countries against Serbia does not soften its deeply alarming implications. Putin is warning only too correctly of the dangers to the west of this development and the supreme folly of endorsing it.
For once, Putin is on the right side and Britain and America are utterly wrong. That is the measure of this debacle.
Doc,
This is nothing new, and it’s been building for years. Marshall Tito kept a lid on the pressure cooker with his dictatorship, but once he died and the Wall came down, all hell of religious and ethnic differences broke loose.
But the United Stets and NATO didn’t have to take the side of evil no matter what happened.
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“This is nothing new, and it’s been building for years. Marshall Tito kept a lid on the pressure cooker with his dictatorship, but once he died and the Wall came down, all hell of religious and ethnic differences broke loose.”
Actually, the same thing happened in Iraq, truth be told. As well as in Lebanon. Some countries are just totally fractured by their minorities, ethnic and religious differences. The question is, how far down can you fracture a country, into how small of a part to accomodate all of your minority or religious differences? Heck, Russia itself is comprised of a zillion ethnic and religious minorities. As is India and China.
It’s kind of funny, but the U.S., comprised of every religious and ethnic group you can think of, as we are a melting pot, actually has a more homogeneous population, an American quality, then many others. Weird, out of many, one. Won’t last though, the way things are going currently. Unassimilated new immigrants with no ideological ties to our country anymore. Their loyalties, for too many, lie with their home countries nowadays.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
How many of our "leaders" would say the South had the same right to secede from the US as Kosovo does?
They all do.
this sets a very bad precedent.
Using this precedent the mexican population in the southwest could justify a guerilla style insurrection campaign. The United Nations could support that insurrection and that would lead to a bloody struggle.
It’s bad news that the republican government is supporting this.
Well said! I agree. I have seen no justification for the Clinton initiative to kill Serbs. Since we bombed and destroyed all the bridges across the Danube, killing thousands of civilians, many of us are scratching our heads wondering why Albright and Clinton have not been brought to justice for their criminal behavior. It is beyond me why the USA would kill Christians to help create another Islamofacist nation. Furthermore, it is beyond me why the current Administration supports such a plain stupid policy!
Agree. Thanks Doctor13.
Crazy is the nice word for aiding and abetting Jihad. Insanity is a more appropriate word, but Suicidal is the correct word.
This will be spun many ways, but it will come back to bite and draw blood.
The Serbs should all move immediately to a region of Kosovo where they are the majority and get the “refugee gig” going. Of course Serbia should not offer to help them in anyway other than incite them to be a thorn in the side of Kosovo.
The Serbs can then get out their cameras and start filming propaganda and fauxtography of innocent Serbian children being bombed and the elderly being mistreated. They are going to need a Serbian Arafat and some really cool ninja outfits.
A TV station is a must and disturbing children’s programming is even more imperative. If they think I am stirring them wrongly all they need to do is look at the “Palestinians”. The fake refugee is a good gig. The Serbs just need to step up the drama and wait for the foreign aid dollars to roll in. They need to start thug clubs with cool names like the Binac Monastery Brigade and start naming any site a Serbian has even thought about as a holy site. If a Muslim tries to open so much as a coffee shop the Serbs must immediately claim it is being built on holy site #21,497 (or appropriate number). All is needed after all that is done is just to sit back and rake in the foreign aid dollars......../Sarc
I think, when you peel all the BS away, historians will find that Saudi/Gulf State $$ was behind this decisions. We have been spending like drunken sailors. The Gulf State $$ helps bail us out from our freckless decisions. This was payback pure and simple—throw the Muslims a bone in a place where no one thinks it will make a difference. Israel is next on the chopping block—bank on it.
BINGO!
Gee, I got to this one before any of the Dhimmwit posters!
Actually, Tito encouraged the displacement of Serbs from Kosovo so we’re actually supporting an old Communist plot.
Would you believe some folks are stupid enough to believe this idiocy is in America’s interests? Guess they’ve forgotten who is responsible for 9/11.
Kosovo = New Jihadist training camp
great...
Thanks for posting!
Ping!
Insanity. Starting with Bubba Clinton’s misguided war in support of the Kosovo moslems against the Serb Christians, compunded by NATO’s inept “peace keeping” that punishes the Serbs and encourages the moslem Kosovars, and now recognizing the disolution of Serbia in favor of a new moslem nation on Europe’s soft underbelly all shouts loudly INSANITY!
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