Remember the EU initially supported the integrity of Yugoslavia. It wasn’t until the Germans broke rank and recognized Croatia that the rest of the EU started to opt for a break-up of Yugoslavia. By then it was too late to stop the ethnic cleansings and the war(s).
If there is one thing I am certain of it is that the EU and the US have learnt nothing from the Yugoslav crisis.
It was this policy that guided us from birth of the Union to being the most respected, most prosperous peoples on earth by the eve of World War I. The tragedy is that so few really understand the dynamic factors involved in that phenomenal rise--nor how badly we have compromised our future freedom of action by allowing that cadre of World Government seekers to undermine our heritage.
No one is suggesting--and no one suggested in 1789 to 1917--that we isolate ourselves from the other peoples of the earth. As Jefferson put it, as Washington's Secretary of State, you should "punish the first insult," because of the mischief it will lead to. But the idea that we are supposed to police the world is not a patriotic one--quite the opposite.
It is also very obvious that Obama is a hypocrite for the ages. Russia has a legitimate interest in the Crimea. Obama's role in the overthrow of the former President of Egypt, in something labeled the Arab Spring, has no such legitimate basis--nor is there such for his antics putting American forces at risk in tropical Africa, at this time.
William Flax