Consequences of Kosovo Independence on Americans and Non-Muslims

Is the United States supporting a terrorist state in Kosovo? Are Christians and other non-Muslims dying because of this decision? Will Russia, because of Kosovo, turn against the United States in the UN when Iran's nuclear program is discussed again? Atlas Shrugs has an exclusive article by Paul Williams (I suggest you go read in it's entirety) that suggests we are doing just that. (hat tip Michael) George Freidman at Strategic Forecast wonders WHY we backed independence for Kosovo at all.

Serbia called the declaration illegal and Russia denounced it. The United States, however, was among the first to recognize Kosovo as an independent nation, complicating a growing breach with Russia, China and some EU members, who are vehemently opposed to letting Kosovo break away from Serbia.

Minimally, this event threatens to touch off a new conflict in the Balkans. Riots have already broken out in Belgrade. According to our source in Belgrade, "Serbia is about to go up in flames" as thousands of ethnic Albanians, Muslims who represent 90% of Kosovo's two million people, have stated their claim on the new state. According to our source, a systematic ethnic cleansing of Kosovo's remaining Christian inhabitants has been going on for several years and will now likely escalate.

Since we have been supporting 'democracy' in Kosovo, and have ignored the strong Albanian Islamic influence in political affairs there, we have opened the gates to a new Islamic state, complete with terrorist training camps on the ground and a global network through which to funnel their graduates.

This begins a trail that leads to (but does not end in) New York City, where the 'Albanian Mafia' has taken over much of the drug and organized crime trade. The combination of the legitimization of their terrorist activities in Kosovo, their links to the US, and the fall of Serbia (partly self-inflicted) may spell a new era of unrest and confusion that will mean danger for US interests everywhere.

(Ilana Freedman, Editor & CEO, Gerard Group International, Inc.
Gerard Group

On Russia and Putin. Freidman says, "Being completely disregarded by the West will cost him. He needs to react. The Russians are therefore hosting an “informal” CIS summit in Moscow on Friday."

If Putin has a response to the West on Kosovo, it should reveal itself at the summit.

There are three basic strategies the Russians can pursue. One is to try to create a coalition of CIS countries to aid Serbia. [snip]

The second option is opening the wider issue of altering borders. [snip]

The third option involves creating problems for the West elsewhere. An Iranian delegation will be attending the summit as “observers.” That creates the option for Russia to signal to Washington that the price it will pay for Kosovo will be extracted elsewhere. Apart from increased Russian support for Iran — which would complicate matters in Iraq for Washington — there are issues concerning Azerbaijan, which is sandwiched between Russia and Iran.

Atlas:

ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Paul Williams wrote a stunning piece that makes points that others have missed regarding the "Kosovo independence" farce. The bin Laden connection has been overlooked by the MSM, as well as what Williams calls "Bill Clinton's Muslim Brigade". The same game plan is at work in the "peace process" being rammed down their throats in Israel. Israel is now being threatened and cajoled into allowing NATO "peace-keepers" assume positions in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza strip. The refusal to allow foreign troops to place a Trojan horse within our borders has been a cornerstone of Israel policy since 1948, but the traitors Olmert and Livni are moving forward with plans to do just that. (BTW, where are the women?)

US Supports Terror State -- BUSH ADMINISTRATION UNITES WITH AL QAEDA IN KOSOVO by, Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. (author of DAY OF ISLAM)

America's war on terror has come full circle.

By pledging his support of Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia, President George W. Bush has sanctioned the genocide of thousands of Serbian Christians in the Balkans and the creation, thanks to al Qaeda, of a radical Muslim state at the doorway to Europe.

After announcing their independence from Serbia on February 16, thousands of ethnic Albanians (Muslims) took to the streets waving American flags and singing patriotic songs.

While the national press provided glowing coverage of these demonstrations as proof that the "Kosovars" were adamantly pro-America, few media outlets took notice that the demonstrations were preceded by the sacking of Christian churches and the burning of thousands of Serbian books. (continue reading)

Freidman:

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on Sunday. The United States and many, but not all, European countries recognized it. The Serbian government did not impose an economic blockade on — or take any military action against — Kosovo, although it declared the Albanian leadership of Kosovo traitors to Serbia. The Russians vehemently repeated their objection to an independent Kosovo but did not take any overt action. An informal summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was announced last week; it will take place in Moscow on Feb. 21. With Kosovo’s declaration, a river was crossed. We will now see whether that river was the Rubicon.

Kosovo’s independence declaration is an important event for two main reasons. First, it potentially creates a precedent that could lead to redrawn borders in Europe and around the world. Second, it puts the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany in the position of challenging what Russia has defined as a fundamental national interest — and this at a time when the Russians have been seeking to assert their power and authority. Taken together, each of these makes this a geopolitically significant event.

Those recognizing Kosovo’s independence have gone out of their way specifically to argue that this decision in no way constitutes a precedent. They argue that the Serbian oppression of the late 1990s, which necessitated intervention by outside military forces to protect the Kosovars, made returning Kosovo to Serbian rule impossible. The argument therefore goes that Kosovo’s independence must be viewed as an idiosyncratic event related to the behavior of the Serbs, not as a model for the future.

Other European countries, including Spain, Romania, Slovakia and Cyprus, have expressly rejected this reasoning. So have Russia and China. Each of these countries has a specific, well-defined area dominated by a specific ethnic minority group. In these countries and others like them, these ethnic groups have demanded, are demanding or potentially will demand autonomy, secession or integration with a neighboring country. Such ethnic groups could claim, and have claimed, oppression by the majority group. And each country facing this scenario fears that if Kosovo can be taken from Serbia, a precedent for secession will be created.

Putting off independence until the last possible moment — which is to say forever, considering the utter inability of Kosovo to care for itself — thus certainly would have been something the West could have done with little effort.

But it didn’t. The reason for this is unclear. [snip]

Russia intervened diplomatically on its behalf. Russia was ignored.

If Russia simply walks away from this, its growing reputation as a great power will be badly hurt in the one arena that matters to Moscow the most: the FSU.
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Comments

[Branislav]

EAT SHIT (JEDI GOVNA KURVO)

[Debbie]

Alec: Thank you so much for the video links. Amazing. I'm posting them in a new article, with a hat tip to you.

Courtney, AOW, and Rosemary, thanks, great comments.

[Stormwarning]

And the SERBS have always been such "nice" people.

[Alek]

This explains how it came to the bombing of Serbia in 1999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3-9tqEBWBM

And this is is the picture how US sponsored Muslim country of Kosovo will protect Cristian minority rights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFPSMK6ftWs&feature=related

[courtneyme109]

Stratfor also predicted earlier in their "After the Jihad Wars: Russia" that Vlad and Mother Russia would make a play to reclaim as much Warsaw Pact time turf as they could, secure a resource rich Siberia from the covetous (and heavily weaponized) eyes of China before America truly came unbound from Iraq and could really cause heartache and grief.

A case could be made that Kosovo is bait to NATO - a "come on sweet pea wake up now" and a bluff for Russia to get involved in Balkania while Great Satan wines and dines the britches off of Ukrainia, Georgia and firms up deal with Czechland, Poland and the Baltics.

Also - if a Euro Caliphate is truly a worry then Kosovo's Indy Dec sucks all the air out of it. The things Caliphates cannot bear to be anywhere in weapons range of is plumb stocked up to the roof in their birth certif.

VdH had prob one of the best views - and it is admittedly an America firster look:

"Quite apart from the undeniable merits of independence, in political terms Kosovo 2008 is not quite Kosovo of 1998. Let us count the post-9/11 ways:

1. The rise of radical Islam, especially in Europe, has made Western publics edgy about Muslim-identified states, especially inside Europe.

2. Russia is no longer a basket case, but rearming, aggressive, overflowing with petro-dollars, and eager to use oil — and more — as a weapon.

3. Milosevic is long dead.

4. For six years there has been a steady anti-American drumbeat in Europe and caricatures of the use of “preemption” and “unilateralism”; Euros have so turned off Americans that there is no support for reintervention to solve a “European” problem that should of course, if it worsens, be adjudicated at the Hague and other European Utopian agencies.

5. This was a Clinton thing, and predated George W. Bush. The current tension reminds us of our forgotten American Balkan presence, that seems to have been necessary for the past decade — and without a treaty no less! And did we ever ask Congress to bomb over there, or did we go to the sacrosanct U.N.? Suddenly there are few liberal Harry Reid/Nancy Pelosi talking points to be heard on Kosovo.

6. After Afghanistan and Iraq, there is no likelihood that Americans want a third war, especially for Kosovo. Can you imagine the EU begging the Texan, twangy Halliburtonite, bible-thumping George Bush to please do something now!? I imagine right now President Bush is getting a different sort of phone call from his European friends, “Yo George?”

7. Yet given NATO’s dismal performance in Afghanistan, it has little fides in the Balkans, and the American attitude might be ‘you didn’t want to fight much for Afghanistan, so why should we for Kosovo?’

8. There is some EU support, especially in Eastern Europe and among Orthodox and Greek-speaking communities, for Serbia. Perhaps unfaddish and most un-European, but support nonetheless.

Where does all this leave us? It might be a fine and noble thing for the Kosovars to have their own state like the rest of the regions of the former Yugoslavia. But let us pray that neither Serbia nor Russia calls the Western bluff about guaranteeing Kosovar autonomy, because in the present climate it really would be, well, a big fat bluff."

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTliZmY2NDgzMjYwMjk1YzRkZWFlYjYzNDNmM2VjM2U=

[Rosemary]

I know what you mean. I was against that war, because they never consulted with Serbia to try to solve the problem and then told them what they had to do if they wanted to prevent a war. Sounds like Bush? Oh no! That was Clinton! No UN, no nato, etc.

They didn't even stop the bombing for Christmas like he did for Iraq's ramadan.

There is already dead people in the embassy that they set ablaze. I am disgusted.

[Always On Watch]

The ummah will see our recognition of Kosovo as further proof the will of Allah, specifically, that Islam should dominate the world.

Are total idiots running our foreign policy?