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Kosovo is not even a pimple on the rump of the geopolitical dynamics at work in the region. I counsel a dispassionate step back form the rhetoric enflamed by the Pan-Slavic Russians and the interest lobbies. Kosovo should be viewed in the larger context of U.S. vital national interests not who did what to whom in a century long since past.

Our president wouldn't understand the concept of a nation having neither eternal friends nor enemies only eternal interests if it bit him on the ankle. That was obvious by his irrational cheerleading episode in Trirana earlier this week. Getting all worked up because Serbia rescued downed America airmen in WW II is a non sequitur, neither does it impact on U.S. interests if Albania swallows Kosovo unless we want to placate Mr. Putin and his new found interest in the Pan-Salvic movement that Russia has advanced since Tsar Nicholas II sought to protect his geographic ''six'' from an encompassing Austro-Hungarian Empire urged on by The Kaiser and Bismarck before 1871 and even after by Bismarck's replacement from 1871- to the start of WW I.

The subject, if one wishes to make it so, is exceedingly complex and not properly susceptible to bumber sticker argument or Savage-like sound bites that begin with a conclusion without the benefit of any historic or contemporary international power relationship analysis. Outbursts like those posted here are easy, simplistic, sound macho and--are equally wrong. I'm out--das ende !!!!

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counsel a dispassionate step back form the rhetoric enflamed by the Pan-Slavic Russians and the interest lobbies.

I despise Russia and Putin, and am not a Serb. I oppose an independent Kosovo because those people are maggots who murdered Jews as part of Waffen-SS Nazi units. They run the kidnapping/sex slave and heroin trades in Europe, are getting millions from the Saudis to radicalize the KLA, and must NEVER be given a state. Period. All of the historical distractions are irrelevant. No Independent Kosovo. Ever. Bush can go to hell.