Posted on 01/12/2003 6:57:14 PM PST by uplandgame
Agreed, although the day Kosovo comes back under full Serbian sovereignty it will be a double edged sword, as Kosovo will likely continue to be a disproportionate drain on the federal budget, as it was in the old Yugoslavia, unless there are some dramatic demographic shifts as well.
Number one, NATO may never leave Kosovo.
Number two NATO could always return.
They can't deny it if the people wish it.
Under this rule three-quarters of Africa doesn't deserve to be independent states either.
Kosovo does not have the necessary infrastructure for this.
Again, neither do three-quarters of the African countries.
If Kosovo became independent and foreign aid stopped, the people would starve to death.
Kinda like those African countries again: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Sudan, ... etc.
How can that be? Didn't Sen. Lieberman's addressed this whole issue as quoted:
"[The] United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles ... Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values." (Sen. Lieberman quoted in the 'Washington Post,' April 28, 1999)
What a hipocryt and opportunist! Not only that he doesn't deserve to lead this country, he should not be a candidate.
And then, according to The Wall Street Journal (Europe), November 01, 2001 (WSJ link is here):
"... The Balkans´ uncharacteristically silent exit from the world stage as the most prominent international hot spot of the last decade belies its status as a major recruiting and training center of Osama bin Laden´s al Qaeda network. By feeding off the region´s impoverished republics and taking root in the unsettled diplomatic aftermath of the Bosnia and Kosovo conflicts, al Qaeda, along with Iranian Revolutionary Guard-sponsored terrorists, have burrowed their way into Europe´s backyard.
For the past 10 years, the most senior leaders of al Qaeda have visited the Balkans, including bin Laden himself on three occasions between 1994 and 1996. The Egyptian surgeon turned terrorist leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri has operated terrorist training camps, weapons of mass destruction factories and money-laundering and drug-trading networks throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia. This has gone on for a decade. Many recruits to the Balkan wars came originally from Chechnya, a jihad in which Al Qaeda has also played a part.
... They have however been disguised under the cover of dozens of "humanitarian" agencies spread throughout Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania. ...
... With the future status of Kosovo still in question, the only real development that may be said to be taking place there is the rise of Wahhabi Islam -- the puritanical Saudi variety favored by bin Laden -- and the fastest growing variety of Islam in the Balkans. Today, in general, the Balkans are left without the money, political resources, or institutional strength to fight a war on terrorism. And that, for the Balkan Islamists, is a Godsend."
My question for candidate Lieberman: “Why did we supply arms to Islamic terrorists in Albania to attack Serbian police, and then condemned the Serbs for excessive civilian deaths in fighting terrorism?”
It's time to let the Serbian army back to Kosovo, their homeland since 7th century, to fight Islamic terrorists and end this crazy Bill Clinton adventure.
Hopefully NATO will not need to fight again.
I mean with the Balkans, including Serbia, moving towards NATO membership via the PfP, what conflict prone area of Europe is left outside of NATO's security umbrella?
As to NATO being kaput, I would merely say to you that this particular misrepresentation of fact on your part is pathetically worn out.
That and some other stuff which lead to the current situation where there's no fighting.
Again, the 'cemented ethnic partition' is in your head - there is one government in Skopje for all of Macedonia - regardless of how much posting to the contrary you undertake.
So you mean NATO came to the defense of FYROM, a NATO-PfP member by bussing? Here is a thought maybe NATO should have shot at the "enemy" instead?
Mission accomplished, nationalist idiots thwarted, Destro crying.
It's all good.
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