Posted on 12/22/2005 7:51:20 AM PST by kronos77
The papers report that a group of U.S. congressmen members of Serb lobby have written a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush where they ask him to support institutions of Serbia and engage in the status of Kosovo issue.
The letter reads that direct involvement of President Bush would be necessary to resolve the “delicate final status of Kosovo”. Congressmen in the letter also suggest that several principles would have to be adopted to lead to a successful conclusion of negotiations on Kosovo.
The initiative of the Serb lobby in the United States has been welcomed by Serbian President Boris Tadic who said that one of the successes of the Serb caucus was that it prevented U.S. Congress from adopting a resolution in favour of Kosovo’s independence.
No kidding. Ya know Serbian PR and lobbying efforts here in US were non-existent when the Kosovo was brewing, letting Albanian lobby run all over the Clinton administration. Guess things are changing.
Hope so.
Building new Teheran 2,000 miles westwards on Kosovo is plain stupid.
But it is hapening.
Soros fluffers getting nervous, too!
The Jihadists in Kosovo had the PR edge by a landslide.
Condi and Co. have consistently reiterated Beelzebubba's and the Cleaning Lady's positions on the Balkans.
It's never too late. It took almost 5 centuries for the Serbs to be free of the Ottomans. If it takes as long to do it again, so be it but Kosovo will be free and Serbian again.
It's never too late. It took almost 5 centuries for the Serbs to be free of the Ottomans.
Albanian Muslims geting nervous...
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They better be. The times they are a changin' and Albanian Muslims/Commies are on the wrong side.
Islamist state in Europe?
http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20051218-125507-6951r.htm
The Washington Times
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
December 18, 2005
The Bush administration has decided to get involved in another dangerous nation-building project -- in the volatile Balkans. More ominously, the effects of this intervention will lay the groundwork for an Islamist state in the heart of Europe.
Recently, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the leaders of Bosnia's three main groups -- Muslims, Serbs and Croats -- met in Washington to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Dayton Accords, which ended Europe's worst bloodletting since 1945. The administration should have limited itself to a symbolic remembrance. Instead, it pressured Bosnia's political representatives to sign an agreement demanding constitutional reforms by early next year.
The plan seeks to establish a centralized, unitary republic dominated by a strong government in Sarajevo. The ultimate goal is to forge a more cohesive state that will finally eradicate the country's ethnic divisions.
Bosnia's current political system, with its rotating tripartite presidency, parallel administrations and vast bureaucracy, is neither rational nor efficient. Reform is needed. The American-backed plan, however, is a recipe for disaster. It is a form of radical social engineering that will have to be imposed against the wishes of the country's Serb and Croat populations.
More importantly, it will pave the way for potentially turning Bosnia into Europe's first Islamic republic. This will destabilize not only the Balkans, but the entire European continent.
During the Bosnian war of 1992-1995, many of the country's Muslims became radicalized. Thousands of foreign Arab fighters, known as the mujahideen, infiltrated into Bosnia in order to wage jihad against Christian Serb and Catholic Croat forces. Iran and Saudi Arabia's influence over the Bosnian Muslim authorities grew as the war ground on. Radical Islam took root in the Balkans.
Most of Bosnia's Muslims remain secular or moderate. But in his recent book, "Faith at War," Yaroslav Trofimov, the Wall Street Journal's foreign correspondent, documents the chilling rise of militant Islam since the end of the fighting.
Mr. Trofimov shows the Saudis have been funding numerous mosques in Sarajevo. At these places of worship, long-bearded Imams champion the doctrines of Wahhabism, a particularly intolerant version of Islam. The Saudis have also supported charities that serve as fronts for al Qaeda cells. Islamist radio stations, such as Radio Naba, and radical organizations, such as the Young Muslims, have proliferated. Parts of Bosnia, like the village of Bocinja, serve as enclaves for a remaining mujahideen.
What is most disturbing, however, is the influx of young Bosnian Muslim fighters into Iraq. They are joining the Islamofascist insurgents in their barbaric campaign against U.S. forces. At one of Sarajevo's main mosques, the second highest-ranking cleric in the country, Ismet Spahic, has publicly denounced the U.S.-led war in Iraq as "genocide."
This small minority of Islamic militants is growing, like a cancer on Bosnia's body politic. Thus far, the U.S., the European Union and the Sarajevo authorities have ignored the problem.
They have also turned a blind eye to the growing persecution of Bosnia's Christians, especially Croatian Catholics. Locked into a federation with the majority Muslims, the Croatians dwindled in number as they slowly leave their ancestral lands. Less than half-a-million are left. Those who remain suffer daily violations of their basic rights.
The Croatians are dying. If these constitutional reforms passes, it will be the Serbs' turn to be submerged by the growing Muslim majority.
The way to long-term stabilization is not by centralizing power and trying to forge an artificial "Bosnian" identity as the U.S. plan foolishly seeks to do. Switzerland is a better model: Make Bosnia an efficient decentralized state and devolve power to ethnic cantons with considerable political, religious and cultural autonomy. Making all three ethnic groups masters in their own house, will give each, especially the minority Serbs and Croats, an incentive to view Bosnia as their shared, common homeland. It will also help to contain radical Islam by providing an internal system of checks and balances. This will prevent any kind of potential Islamic movement from seizing national power.
To the Balkanists in the State Department, however, Bosnia is a giant laboratory for their experiment in multiethnic nation-building. Like other such experiments -- Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia -- it will fail. This time the cost to the West will be even more severe: an Islamic inroad into the center of Europe. Washington will rue the day.
Serb Americans were 100% behind Bush especially in OHIO.
Somebody had better take notice in the WH.
You meant: free OR Serbian?
Wrong, free AND Serbian.
According to the 2000 Living Standard Measurement Survey of the Statistical Office of Kosovo, Kosovo's total population is approximately 1,970,000 with the following ethnic proportions:
* 88% Albanians (1,733,600)
* 7% Serbs (173,900)
* 3% Bosniaks and Muslims (59,100)
* 2% Romas (39,400)
* 1% Turks (19,700)
Yes, you are seeing the result of an ongoing ethnic cleansing committed by and for the Albanians as they occupied Serbian Kosovo at the behest of the Communists.
For those of us in the US witnessing the same sort of population shift in our SouthEast, we have very good reason to demand that recognized international borders continue to be recognized.
Kosovo is Serbian.
How dou zou saz
Kosovo or Kosova?
Texas or Tejas?
You wanna play national structure of Kosovo and US southwest?
There were 1,000,000 Serbs in Kosovo Before Albanians tookover in WWII and Communism.
There are 3,000 Jews in Poland out of 2,000,000 and Hitler din NOT "Libereted" Poland!
Never mess with numbers.
I think you guys are both right. Condi and Co. have been consistant with their continuation of the Clinton Klan's policies, but the wild card is the Serbs' patience and the fact that the KLA is just about guaranteed to make every mistake that is humanly possible.
It's still anybody's game and this mess is far from sorted out.
One million? It is more than the whole population of Kosovo at that time. If you want to learn some facts read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Kosovo
Looks like Kosovo was predominantly Albanian even in the 19th century.
There are 3,000 Jews in Poland out of 2,000,000 and Hitler din NOT "Libereted" Poland!
And so what? What is your point?
I don't dispute that. I'm just asking in what sense Kosovo will be any more "free" when it goes back to Serbia? You may as well say: Arizona will be free and Mexican again.
The current situation of ethnically-cleansed Kosovo is Not Free!
Countries are free only when people who live there think they are free. And the people of Kosovo (at least 88% of them) evidently don't think that they will become free when they return under Serbian jurisdiction. Which doesn't mean that they should get full independence, that would be a dangerous precedent and a very painful humiliation for the Serbs. A wise compromise would a wide autonomy for Kosovo within Serbia. But talking of "freedom" for Kosovo smells of Serbian nationalist propaganda.
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