[Brilliant]

Clinton and Albright again on the wrong side.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

And nobody deserves the Religon of Peace invading their countries, eating their children and raping their pets more than the Eurotrash.

Let them reap what they have sewn.

[Andy from Beaverton]

“The final goal of Islamic terrorist groups and organizations is to turn America into an Islamic republic and to secure world domination through it,”
Oh, that's not much to ask for. Let's just change our government.

[FormerLib]

Ronly Bonly bin Laden/Great Prophet Zarqawi just phoned in to deny that terrorists exist in the Balkans unless they are wearing a Serbian uniform. He then jumped on a British Airways airliner using a Bosnian passport and departed the Free Republic...

...for now.

[wmfights]

Political correctness run amok. Thank you liberal weenies from the 6o's. At least the threat is directed at Europe, that great bastion of freedom we can always count on to protect our flank. My only concerns as always are the innocents and our real allies the Brits and eastern European countries that have supported us.

[layman]

Americans had demonstrated the shortsightedness of their foreign policy in the Balkans by supporting local Muslims during the civil war in Bosnia and ethnic Albanians, who are also Muslims, in Serbia’s southern province of Kosovo.

Yes, but the point is we showed the Muslims we are fair and mean them no harm. IMO Clinton will ultimately prove to be the most incompetent president in history.

[tkathy]

Thanks to Clinton for an utterly stupid war. If Bush had waged that utterly stupid war, the libs would be howling.

[Sal]

Copely argued that Americans had demonstrated the shortsightedness of their foreign policy in the Balkans by supporting local Muslims during the civil war in Bosnia and ethnic Albanians, who are also Muslims, in Serbia’s southern province of Kosovo.

"Shortsightedness". Right. Incompetence somewhere else and bureaucratic SNAFUs in other places.

I'm sure neither Clinton nor any of their people MEANT to do any harm. Jamie Gorelick couldn't have helped the 9/11 terrorists more if she were on their ground squad with her special "wall". But I'm certain she didn't mean to help them. I'm also sure she didn't want to help al Qaeda when she told investigators to "kill it" WRT to OKC bombing and yet another killing phone call on TWA #800 investigation.

No, it was shortsightedness, incompetence and bureaucratic SNAFUs. All of it. Spread out over 8 awful years. In 8 awful years wouldn't you think they'd have a mistake in OUR favor? Not even one or two?

[Cicero]

Even before Clinton went into Bosnia I was also among the first to say that we were about to fight on the wrong side and help the bad guys. What has happened since was totally predictable from the start.

Clinton helped the Muslim terrorists take over Bosnia and Kosovo much as Carter helped the Mullahs take over Iran, and we will pay a heavy price for both these instances of leftist stupidity and corruption.

There was a bit of confusion about Yugoslavia at first, because most conservatives have an instinctive reaction to support their country in a time of war. But it didn't last long. The majority of freepers agreed that we went in on the wrong side in Yugoslavia and that clinton, as usual, worked against the national security interests of our country and the civilized world.

I don't fault our military except at the top levels--Cohen, Shelton, and Clark. But I do fault our Democrat leadership and the MSM, which continues to lie about that whole misadventure even today.

[moose2004]

If NATO won't do it then let the Serb Army take care of those terrorist training camps in Bosnia, and any Al Qaeda in Kosovo.

[GOP_1900AD]

Heck, they threaten Europe from London and Amsterdam. Wake up call time has long passed ...

[JesseHousman]

Billy Goat Klinton and Hillary Roddamned can be blamed for this travesty.

[mark502inf]

Besides the significant disconnect between the article's dire warnings and the lack of Al Qaeda attacks over the past many years in the Balkans, there is also a significant disconnect between the authors and Condi Rice's report on terrorism released last week.

Here's the extract on Kosovo:

Kosovo, currently under the administration of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1244, successfully prosecuted individuals for terrorism and developed new tools to combat terrorist financing. Radical Islamic organizations, some with links to terrorism, have attempted to recruit followers among Kosovo Albanian Muslims but these attempts have largely failed. In June 2004, authorities in Albania arrested and extradited Florim Ejupi to Kosovo, a suspect in a deadly 2001 terrorist attack against a bus carrying Kosovo Serbs; Ejupi was later indicted by a local Kosovo District Court for terrorism and murder. In February, UNMIK passed a regulation and later established a Financial Information Center to monitor suspicious financial transactions and deter money laundering and identify sources of terrorist financing. UNMIK, as well as Kosovo’s local Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG), continue to cooperate closely with the United States and other governments in sharing information and investigating terrorist-related groups and activities.

And here's Bosnia:

The Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) remained a strong and active partner in the global war on terrorism. The country’s ethnic divisions, its complex and multi-level government structure, and its still weak central institutions complicate its efforts against terrorism, but Bosnia made great strides in institutionalizing its counterterrorism capabilities. State-level Ministries of Defense and Security were established in 2004, and the two entity-level (Federation and Republika Srpska) intelligence services were merged into a single state-level service. US Government assistance helped establish the State Investigative and Protection Agency (SIPA), an FBI-like agency responsible for investigating complex crimes including terrorism, illegal trafficking, organized crime, and smuggling of weapons of mass destruction. SIPA will have a financial intelligence unit (FIU), and a sub-unit of its Criminal Investigation Department will be dedicated to counterterrorism and WMD. However, these units of SIPA are not yet fully staffed or fully operational, and state institutions in general are largely under-funded, underresourced, and lack sufficiently trained personnel. In June, Bosnia adopted a package of laws that, when fully implemented, will dramatically strengthen state-level law enforcement capabilities. The set of laws includes legislation giving SIPA law enforcement and investigative authority for state-level crimes, including terrorism, and a law on prevention of money laundering. The law, which came into force on December 28, determines the measures and responsibilities for detecting, preventing, and investigating money laundering and terrorist financing, and prescribes measures and responsibilities for international cooperation. Bosnia lacks established procedures for dealing with such issues as denaturalization, extradition, and preventive detention. The BiH Government took decisive action in apprehending suspects and shutting down NGOs and bank accounts tied to terrorist-linked organizations. In the past year and a half, Bosnian Federation authorities shut down NGOs with terrorist links and froze accounts of terrorist supporters. In 2004, the Government disrupted the operations of al-Furqan (a.k.a. Sirat Istikamet), al-Haramain and al- Masjed al-Aqsa Charity Foundation, and Taibah International, organizations listed by the UN 1267 Committee as having direct links with al-Qa’ida. Of continuing concern are the foreign Islamic extremists who remain in Bosnia as a legacy of the 1992-95 war.

And our good ally Albania continues to do all it can to help us:

Despite limited resources, Albania continued to support the global war on terrorism and made progress in implementing its national action plan against terrorism, originally approved in 2002. Albania has steadfastly supported US actions against terrorism, sharing information and investigating terrorist-related groups and activities. In 2004, the Government froze the assets of terrorist financiers, curtailed the activities of suspect Islamic NGOs, and detained or expelled individuals suspected of having links to terrorism or attempting to foment religious intolerance. In July, Parliament passed legislation to implement asset freezes against persons designated as terrorists or terrorist financiers by the United Nations. Albania has begun cracking down on ethnic Albanian extremists, including leaders of the ultranationalist Albanian National Army. In December, police apprehended four arms traffickers dealing in surface to air missiles likely intended for regional extremists.

Of note, the State Department's report indicates that the most dangerous place in the Balkans for an American or other "western" national is Greece where even with the November 17th Group mostly rounded up, Greek terrorists continue to conduct bombings and arson attacks against American and western "imperialist" targets.