Posted on 06/01/2004 5:41:55 PM PDT by MegaSilver
Kosovo in flames. Ancient Orthodox churches in ruins. Serbs beaten, murdered, and ethnically cleansed from their villages. If you believe the liberal media, these atrocities, committed by the ruling Albanian majority in the Kosovo region of Serbia, were either directly incited by Serb violence against Albanian children or a delayed response to the violence and repression inflicted by the Yugoslav government in the Milosevic years. The poor suffering Albanians, claims Richard Holbrook, architect of the Clintons’ Balkan policy, have grown tired of waiting for the international community to give them what they deserve.
The truth is, as it almost always is, the opposite of what they want you to believe. Despite the distorted accounts being circulated by AP and the Gannet press (to name only two press outlets conspicuous for bad reporting), Albanian militants had been planning this anti-Serb pogrom for some time, and both UNMIK (the U.N. command in Kosovo) and the Council of Europe have debunked the story that Albanian children, drowned by the evil Serbs, were the casus belli. Gregory Johnson, commander of the NATO Southern Wing, describes the violence in Kosovo as ethnic cleansing and as the “violence of a mob, of criminals.” Admiral Johnson’s assessment that the Albanian action was “orchestrated” is shared by Jonathan Eyal, Director of the Royal Institute of Armed Forces in London:
That has not happened accidentally. There were ongoing debates about withdrawal of large number of NATO soldiers from Kosovo and Bosnia. It is clear that for the authorities in Belgrade the crisis occurred at the worst possible time, only few days after setting up of new government. On the other hand this is an ideal time for Pristina. Albanians think that the world has lost interest in Kosovo since the countries of the West are preoccupied without world spots of crisis.
In other words, the Albanian terrorist campaign to change world opinion is no different from the Al Qaeda bombings in Madrid. Most Americans probably do not realize that Osama bin Laden was an ally both of the Bosnian Muslims and of the Albanian Muslims in Kosovo.
Albanian violence in Kosovo is not a new phenomenon. Albanians have been terrorizing Orthodox Serbs, Gypsies, Catholics, and non-Albanian Muslims for as long as they have been in Kosovo. To this extent, Richard Holbrook is right: The Albanians want a Christian-free Kosovo, and if the United Nations won’t finish the job they started—killing and expelling the Serbs—then they will take matters into their own hands.
The governments of Great Britain and the United States claim to be waging a war against terrorism and portray the occupation of Iraq as a key campaign in that war. Unfortunately, the continued presence of U.S. and allied troops in Iraq is inspiring rather than repressing terrorism. In the meantime, they are doing next to nothing to punish the countries that have been funding and arming the terrorists, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and they continue to preside over an illegal U.N. occupation of Kosovo whose fruits are murder, ethnic cleansing, and an international crime spree (drugs, white slavery, kidnapping, murder) conducted by the Albanian mobs in Europe.
Although fundamentalist Islam presents a graver threat to the peace and security of Europe and the United States than either Nazism or Communism ever did, our own leaders continue to repeat their chant of multi-culturalism, tolerance, and diversity. Islam, as our President never tires of repeating, is a “religion of peace”—a lie that is an insult both to the Muslims who oppressed Christians and Jews for 1000 years and to the victims.
Hindsight may some day provide a reasonable justification for the invasion of Iraq, but if we are determined on resisting Islamic terrorism, that resistance should be mounted here in the United States, where Islamic advocacy groups have been supporting terrorists and where Islamic schools are inculcating terrorist principles in the next generation, and in Europe where an Islamic terrorist state is being established, under our auspices, in Kosovo.
If George W. Bush wants to show that he is serious about fighting terrorism, he will restore Kosovo to its rightful owner, Serbia, and he will arrange international compensation for the Christian victims, whose churches, homes, and villages have been destroyed.
Like it or not, we the idiots people of the United States elected a lying, lousy, traveling salesman as President who just couldn't resist the temptation to bomb the wrong side of Kosovo. The United States, by inference, is responsible for this mess We had no right to be there.
Now it's too late. Noninterventionism was the right way to go, but that is no longer an option. We got the Serbs into this mess, and the only proper thing to do is to put a stop to these "ethnic Albanians."
If Kerry wins, Holbrooke will probably be named Secretary of State. One of his first goals will be to make Kosovo independent. I believe that's why every American of Serbian descent will vote for Bush.
Clinton doesn't mention this mistake in his biography so it must not of happened!
When we read about the Serb children being gunned down while they were ice skating we knew that the Islamic terror groups were on the prowl. The attacks on doctors offices and Serb police stations were ignored. The Albanian Kosovars are protecting the 15 drug families. They operate with KLA protection and provide Europe with 85% of the Albanka (white lady) The stupid NATO nitwits under the thumb of Mad Maddie Albright had no clue. Wes Clarke ought to be dragged out and made to answer questions on the drug trade support he gave to the Islamic terrorists
When this war started brewing was about the time I dropped TV for the internet and I was actually stunned to find out how much of the main stream news was making Goebbels proud. They really had evolved into an instrument of propaganda.
We are the ones that picked the guy who killed many innocent people just cuz he thought he may have a shot of the Nobel Peace Prize. We really let the world down on that one.
Someday we will be making amends, although, unfortunately, maybe not until we have no choice.
Sarcasm is difficult to interpret in a newbie. If it's not sarcastic, I hope your ass is out of here in a heartbeat.
And that is the problem. The media doesnt care about Anglo-Saxon or Caucasian Christians, nor do they care about African Christians, nor do they care about Indonesian Christians, nor do they care about Jews...at all.
I found a good friend in Bulgaria who was able to give me first-hand accounts of what was happening.
I remember her fears that the war would spread into her own country and my assurances that it would not happen.
One evening, while we were talking together on ICQ, she screamed because an American fighter just passed over her house going super-sonic and broke some of her windows. At that time, she was living in Sophia, Bulgaria and close to the Kosovo border.
Over the years, I have watched this young woman as she matured and became educated as a lawyer. Today, she in post-graduate school and will someday be a positive force in guiding her country, as it makes it's transition from Communism.
So, in a strange way, our American war in Kosovo has had at least one positive result.
Today, I consider her like my own daughter.
Not even that. Wasn't the Kosovo bombing the week Monica Lewinsky was giving her grand jury testimony?
Thank you for posting it. I was just talking to my in-laws in Moscow about the Albanian Muslim terrorists. We still ca'nt understand why Clinton got involved in it and specially why we bombed the WRONG side! Just to prove we are not against all Muslims, I think.
Read one airman's comments below: (it pains me to know we repaid these people by aiding the criminals burning down their thousand year old religious institutions...)
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Felman/snf-speech.html
"I owe my very life to General Mihailovich, the Chetniks and the Serbian people and because of this whenever I get together with the Serbian people it is like a family reunion and fill me with much emotion."
"The one good thing the Germans did during WWII was shoot me down, giving me a chance to meet the Serbian people."
"It would be impossible for me to relate all the many wonderful things the Chetniks and the Serbian people did for me and my fellow American fliers. As our numbers increased, each man would tell of his own personal experiences. They told how the people went hungry in order to give them what little food they had. How many of them slept on the floor so that the Airmen could have the comfort of their beds. How they risked their lives to protect us from the German patrols. Not once did I hear anything but the highest praise from the 500 Americans rescued by General Mihailovich."
I don't think the media EVER referred to them as Christians or muslims. The dumbed down American public never understood who was who. We were on the wrong side of this.
See my post #10. It's also possible that he was hoping for a Nobel Peace Prize (and I wouldn't be all that surprised if he got it, unfortunately).
I loathe Clinton more and more every time I read up on this.
The folks in Serbia that I've talked with know that this was Clinton's doing.
Of course, I'm sure they are curious why W. hasn't moved to rectify the situation. I know that I am.
islamic jihadism is actually a form of Nazism--remember Haj Amin al-Husseini and his disciples (e.g., Izetbegovic, Arafat, bin Laden) in the contemporary world.
The VAST MAJORITY of Nazis in our world today are islamoNazis!!!! (They are certainly more truly Nazi than the pathetic wannabe neo-Nazis in the US, Germany, Britain, etc. Only the new ustashe come close.)
Hey! Don't be so impatient. The Slickmeister promised we'd be outta there by Christmas and its only June!
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