It is always possible to workmout demarcation lines between areas where 1 or another community is numerically dominant. By definition such states, when the job is done honestly will contain very large majorities either way. The Curzon line in between Poland & ex-USSR or the german-Danish borders are examples of honesty. Northern Ireland & Lebanon are exalmples of dishonety.

Had NATO divided Yugoslavia on ethnic lines (Krajina, Republica Srpska & eastern Kosovo remaining Serbian) this would merely have been 19thC imperialism reborn. Instead they chose to help unrepentent former Nazis publicly committed to the genocide of Serbs take whatever they wanted. What we see is blatant Nazism reborn & all leading NATO politicians guilty of crimes comparable to Hitler, but without the excuse of a major war.

The existential threat against Israel bears no resemblance whatsoever to the relatively secure situation the Muslim fascists find themselves in right now in Kosovo. Who, exactly, is threatening their genocide? We smashed the Serbs, who didn’t play nice, but gave the Muslims a dose of the medicine they’ve been handing out for centuries. There is no equivalent in Kosovo for the hundreds of millions of Arabs and non-Arab Muslims who hate Israel, and they are far from smashed like the Serbs.

your dreamy distorted comparison says much about your incomprehension of the Jihad threat, of Islam, and your gullibility viz. the peaches and cream propaganda those Muslims in Kosovo want you to perpetuate.

In Iraq even the Kurds recognize their near term well being is tied to a healthy and democratic Iraq. What incentive have the any of the former Yugoslavian states to unite, much less live in peace with each other? Tito was a strong man, but he could not bind the country together so to outlast his strength. The weakness of tribalism and the myth of a multicultural philosophy.

It will take quite a hot fire to alloy the various Yugo’s into a strong entity. A fire that hot tends to be unforgiving and massively difficult to control and contain. While I agreed with the decision to interfere in the blood bath of the 1990′s, I am not certain what was achieved by the interference. Perhaps we just delayed the inevitable, or maybe we helped bridge the distance between something very ugly and something pleasing to behold. Time and time alone will tell.

The man deserves a modicum or more of respect.

Clark’s career rise begins from Fort Hood: he signed the releases of the heavy equipment to the FBI. I think you remember what happened after that…Clark is one Clinton’s ‘made men’.

As to Clark’s ability as a commander [above division level], that’s debatable. Don’t hold your breath waiting for other flag-rank officers to comment significantly about him; that’s a closed order. The only way anyone of that fraternity will turn on him is if he totally steps outside the bounds.

This is true. Orthodox churches have been desecrated and vandalized, not because they are Christian but because they are Serbian. No Albanian has touched a Catholic church in Kosovo. All the violence against Catholics was perpetrated by Serbs. The conflict is ethnic, not religious. The majority of Albanians are non-religious, and the same goes for the majority of Serbs.

All mosques funded by the Wahabbis.

This not true. The reconstruction of some, but not all, mosques destroyed by the Serbs were funded by Wahhabis. The others are not. Most Albanians detest Wahhabis, and the reason is instantly obvious for everyone who has ever been to Kosovo. Kosovo is culturally European and largely atheist, as France and England are. It is culturally opposite the Middle East, shockingly so to my eyes.

The usual hate-filled spewing on the mosques by Jihadis (Totten IIRC does not speak either Arabic or the various stew of slavic languages in Kosovo, nor has he attended many Mosques so would have no idea of what goes on other than his naive and idealistic fantasies).

I spoke to US military officers about this. The mosques are monitored, and they DO have native speakers inside. It isn’t a fantasy.

The KLA who are both gangsters and Jihadis dominate the Kosovar government and are linked extensively to Osama bin Laden, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Hezbollah, Iran, with ties going back to the early 1990’s.

The KLA certainly WERE a bunch of gangsters, but they were not associated with jihadists as the Bosnians were. The jihadists wanted to go to Kosovo to fight Serbs, and the KLA told them to get stuffed.

it’s the KLA who have the guns and do the killing.

The KLA no longer exists. NATO has the guns in Kosovo.

1. Killing elderly Serbs in “Muslim areas.”
2. Burning down and desecrating monasteries and churches and cathedrals.
3. Killing practicing Christians.
4. All mosques funded by the Wahabbis.
5. The usual hate-filled spewing on the mosques by Jihadis (Totten IIRC does not speak either Arabic or the various stew of slavic languages in Kosovo, nor has he attended many Mosques so would have no idea of what goes on other than his naive and idealistic fantasies).
6. The KLA who are both gangsters and Jihadis dominate the Kosovar government and are linked extensively to Osama bin Laden, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Hezbollah, Iran, with ties going back to the early 1990′s.

In short, Michael J. Totten reminds me of the people who toured Stalin’s Potemkin villages in the 1930′s and proclaimed the “future is here.” EVERY OTHER REPORTER including those from the NYTIMES and WAPO found the hard core gunmen who really run things scary and jihadi. Various Congressional hearings and people like Lawrence J. Wright “The Looming Tower” have documented KLA-Jihad links, as has Andrew McCarthy (“Willful Blindness”).

[I don't doubt that Totten's hosts were nice people not screaming about Jihad. They don't hold power -- it's the KLA who have the guns and do the killing. I'm sure you could have found "nice" Germans and Soviets in the 1930's as well.]

I would like to know what other general officers think of Clark. He seems to have had a genuine military career, not just a “ticket-punching” bunch of rear-echelon junkets.

Sadly, his intelligence may be his own biggest problem. What makes me say this is the conspicuous frequency of tragi-comic downfalls history has shown us of men who were supremely intelligent, and mistook their intelligence for infallibility. Clark seems to be another one of those whose cleverness arguably is insufficient preparation for navigating the treacherous shoals and snags of politics. Somehow, possibly because of a naive idealism untempered by study of U.S. domestic realities, he threw in with the Liberal Left. Maybe this is because his career became inextricably indebted to the sponsorship of Mr. Clinton. But having aligned himself with the Left, he is obliged to mouth their approved “Party Line.” For a military guy like Clark, it might take a passel of courage to choose apostasy from the Left.

Well, Kosovars certainly see themselves that way. They overwhelming side with the Israelis and against the Palestinians for the reasons I outlined. I met many Israelis who actually live in Kosovo, and they’re thriving there. Arabs who move to Kosovo are feared and loathed.

Kosovo is the least Islamicized Muslim-majority country I have ever seen, and I’ve personally been to more than a dozen of them. If only Iraq were like Kosovo, it would be the biggest foreign policy victory for the US since WWII. If the whole Middle East were like Kosovo, Arabs would be better allies than even the British.

Look. US military intelligence analysts I’ve spoken to on the ground there say there is NO threat of jihad. You obviously have different sources than I do, but I’d like to ask you if you honestly think they are better than mine. Different, yes, but better? Do you really think so?

You know me. Or at least you did. If Kosovo were a jihad state, I would scream about it from the rooftops. I’ve been to jihad states, and this isn’t one of them. If I were wrong, American soldiers there would be shot at, the Israelis I met would be kicked out or dead, and the low-profile Arabs would be thriving instead of keeping their heads down.