When Georgie Sr. was in office I was told that Kosovo was lost to the Serbs and that was way before Billy C. even got a wiff of the linen in the White House or the first shots of the Kosovo civil war being fired. This is AMERICA'S legacy.
After the recent pograms, how many times did Georgie Jr. pound the podium and declare that it's obvious that this disease of terror has spread to Kosovo? I'll give you the answer: ZERO. The U.S. and German members of Kfor were the must pathetic excuses for protecting Christian holy places that I've ever heard of in my life and that scum bag politician, Billy C., had absolutely nothing to do with it. Face it folks, this newest American president doesn't give a flying rat's ass about Christian holy shrines in Kosovo or what any Albanians animals are doing to them or to any Serbian people.
The pograms never even came close to entering into the minds of the American people and the US press, the Democrats AND the Republicans are thankful.
If any of you folks still believe that the Republicans are going to come in on a white horse and fix this mess, you're only kidding yourselves. They want nothing less than for every Serb in Kosovo to just go away and for us to forget they were ever there. What a friggin' load of crap.
When Jr. got elected I said that nothing would change in Kosovo. I was wrong. It's gotten much worse.
I find the attitudes toward the Balkan disaster very similar to a *liberal* US Jew's attitude toward Israel--"Go away and die. You embarrass me."
While it's true that we can't pack this completely on the Concupicent One, there is also a gang you are not blaming--the neocons. Without McVain, Bill Kristol, Kraut the Hammer--Biden and Albright could never have mustered enough support to push Clinton into war. Ever see BJ go willingly to any fight?
And I do think you judge the Bushes rather harshly--McVain has gotten a free pass for his efforts in getting us on the wrong side, and a US president cannot manage to cover the entire world. Isn't it cute, too, how the Albanians send a trickle of troops to "help" us in Iraq? Going after the Senior Bush needs hindsight. At least the Elder wasn't beating the drums to aid the Islamic Albanians.
Go to Kristol's writings in the nineties--"New American Century"--and search out Kosovo. It will curl your hair. He doesn't exactly use the word--"Liebensraum"--but I sure catch a strong whiff of it.
And this article also sums up how we ended up on the wrong side-- link