I have become disillusioned with Michael Totten in recent months. It began when he wrote an article asserting that the newly minted Jihad State of Kosovo was “The Israel of the Balkans”. What a hideuos distortion on so many levels. He seems so eager lately to find a “moderate Islam”, that he’s bought hook line and sinker the lie that Islam is somehow intrinsically different in the region. He seems completely unaware, for example, that the region now known as “Kosovo” has been the killing fields of Islam since the fall of Byzatium to Jihad. The region was formerly a predominantly non-Muslim enclave, which today is nearly 100% Muslim. How did that come to pass? The West saw “ethnic cleansing” which reminded them of the Nazis, and automatically assumed the Serbs were latter day genocidal neo-Nazis. Under the misrule of Clinton, and the lousy military leadership of Wesley Clark, the Serbs were decimated by the overwhelming might of our high-tech military. Lost was the other side of the story – hundreds of years of simmering Jihad aimed at destroying another patch of infidel terrain to claim for Islam. Totten has accepted the narratives of the Albanian Muslims, and lunatics like Stephen Sulieman Schwartz, that bizarro formerly communist, formerly Jewish convert to Islam who maintains that it’s all the Wahhabis, and that there’s nothing intrinsically genocidal, triumphalist, or supremacist about Islam. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I’m forced to conclude that we backed the wrong side in that war.