OK...I’ve been puzzled by our policy in this region for many years. Can you explain the bottom line, if you know, of why the U.S. got involved in this in the first place, and why we’ve aligned with the Kosovars/Bosnians/Albanians?
Is this just Cold War legacy stuff, appeasement of Turkey, or what?
I really can’t make heads or tails out of any of it. Seems to me we should never have been involved in it in any capacity.
I don't KNOW. I do know what the speculation in the Balkans and a couple of places in the Levant is. Clinton, all the wag the dog stuff aside, which, by the way, people out there believe was his true motivation, simply didn't view the Serbs as Western or Christian in any sense he understood. Albright, Holbrooke and that pathetic sissy Nicky Burns all hate Orthodoxy, probably because they view it as Russian. All of them felt close to and trusted the Turks and the Turks wanted their old brothers in Kosovo taken care of. Remember that the whole Mohammedan Bosnian, Kosovo and Albanian problem is a remnant of the Ottoman empire. The belief with Bush is that he is simply a new world order globalist bought and paid for with Saudi oil money. The success of the new world order depends on the Saudis playing ball about oil. The Saudis exact a price, the expansion of Wahabism, for their cooperation. The globalists like Bush couldn't care less if Islam, which to them is represented by the nice Paki or Persian doctor they know, expands in the Balkans. In fact, if Christians get in the way anywhere, they will be dealt with permanently. Nothing to worry about there because the sort of Christian you are talking about isn't the sort your evangelical supporters recognize anyway. I'm not saying this is correct. It is what one hears even in government ministries over there though.
Bush lied, people died! Blood for oil! Blood for oil!