Brad:

You obviously missed my many posts on the Balkans. Too many people subscribe to a media picture idealizing the Bosnians and vilifying the Serbs while totally ignoring the brutality of the Croats. The Bosnians became the heros because they were militarily weak and at the same time the darlings of the Arabists and anti-Semites in the State Department and the international media. You may not know this but one the first things the Bosnians did when they declared themselves a state was to go Jew-hunting in Sarejevo. The Bosnians, or more accurately their publicists like Christiana Annnapoure of CNN, created atrocity stories to rival the German “rape of Belgiumî in 1914. It is not like they had to make stuff up either both the Serbs and the Croats, as well as the Muslims committed enough atrocities to make the networks happy . For example, the so-called Serb mortaring of the Sarejevo Market was most likely the work of the Bosnian governement. I recommend you read a book by LTGEN Sir Michael Jackson Rose entitle “Fighting for Peace”. Rose was the last UN peacekeeping commander and he confirms that the Bosnians were responsible for the explosion. I also know the CO of the US MI battalion who conducted the investigation and he told me that there is no doubt in his mind that the Bosnian Government was responsible.

Not only was the Bosnian government willing to commit atrocities and blame on the Serbs to garner international support but they also suppressed information that their primary objective was to create a Sharia based state where Croats and Serbs had Dhimini status. Today, the Bosnian government is a member of the Conference of Islamic Nations and is committed to bring Sharia to the entire country. The fact is that the Muslim government cannot implement their plans without a NATO presence because neither the Bosnian Serbs or Croats would freely accept it.

The Serbian view was that a Muslim state committed to Sharia law in the Balkan is unelectable. Such a state would not only be a threat to Christian Southern Europe but would provide a base to attack Western Europe. Most Europeans and Americans laughed at this in the 1990′s but I doubt anybody is laughing now.

The same goes for the Kosovo situation. It is a product of both a greater Albania movement and Islamic Radicalism. Albanians seek to create a single Albanian state that is racial pure. Their immediate objective is drive all the Serbs out of Kosovo, destroy Macedonia and incorporate those territories into a greater Albania. The reason we supported Albanian Narco-terrorists is because Albright and Clark were fixated on getting Milosevic and did not consider the long term consequence of their actions. KFOR, the NATO occupation force in Kosovo does little more than protect Islamic Radicals and Albanian thugs from countermeasures that the still sovereign Serbian government has a right to take to protect its territory.