US promises to lobby for more countries to recognise Kosovo

The Sophia Echo ^ | 28 Feb. 2009 | Clive Leviev-Sawyer

[Doctor13]

The United States has reconfirmed its support for the new state of Kosovo and has promised to lobby for more recognitions, according to a report in Pristina daily Koha Ditore.

The newspaper said that Kosovo leaders president Fatmir Sejdiu, prime minister Hashim Thaci and foreign minister Skender Hyseni were given these guarantees in a meeting on February 26 2009 with US secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

"The US together with its European allies will continue to give its large and substantial support for the newest democracy in the world," Koha Ditore quoted Clinton as saying.

"Support for Kosovo is coming from both (Democrat and Republican) parties. And has been continuous over three administrations, beginning with the administration of my husband, Bill Clinton, and then with Bush’s and now Obama’s. I have told both of them, the president and the prime minister, that the USA will always support and work with your state," Clinton said.

According to a US state department transcript, Clinton said that she had "congratulated the president and the prime minister for Kosovo’s progress in its historic first year as an independent state. And it is a great privilege and honor to see the many accomplishments of Kosovo since the terrible time of repression and war 10 years ago".

"The president and prime minister and I discussed the economic and political tasks ahead and the need to provide an increasingly secure and prosperous life for the people of this country. The president and prime minister outlined their vision of a multiethnic democracy at peace within itself and with its neighbors. The vision is reflected in Kosovo’s flag, whose stars represent the different peoples – Albanians and Serbs, Roma, Bosniacs, Turks, and others – who have their home in Kosovo," Clinton said.

"I emphasised that the United States, working with our European partners, will continue to extend strong and substantial support for the world’s youngest democracy," the transcript quoted Clinton as saying.

Sejdiu said: "We had the chance to express our vision that Kosovo is essentially interested to become a part of the European Union and Nato, and with a special bond and a special friendship that will continue forever with the United States of America.

"Kosovo has so far been recognised by 55 countries throughout the globe, and we were delighted to get a confirmation from the United States of America that we will continue to get their support in also getting the recognition from other countries, and also the support for a speedy economic development of our country, and the support for our vision to create a country which is democratic and a country for all its citizens," Sejdiu said.

[Ravnagora]

The words “Always” and “Forever” should not be thrown around like that.

This “friendship” between the new “Kosova” and the U.S. is a phony one. The ONLY true friend that America ever had in the former Yugoslavia were the Serbs.

Mark my words.

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[Javeth]

Truly unbelievable. When the epitaph for the fallen, bankrupted ex-superpower USA is written in 20 years (likely in Chinese, which everyone in North America will have to learn to get a job), historians are going to look upon us with even more contempt than they do for the British Empire (killed itself by entering a moronic, unneeded WWI in 1914 in which it faced no threat) or the Romans— who, at least, had a good thing going for 5 centuries before chronic infighting brought them down, and imparted a substantial cultural legacy that only increases today.

Of course, by then, the “USA” will consist of a rump “United States of America” along with Aztlan (formed along the Kosovo Precedent) and 5 other seceded mini-states. Besides, what do Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton think they can accomplish? The United States has zero prestige now— when I work abroad, the USA is laughed at, and frankly with good reason. Our biggest export is debt— do the neocons still in power in Washington, honestly think that anyone is going to listen to us anymore? Even our strongest allies, the Israelis have rejected Kosovo with very good reason— why would any country want to recognize an unviable narcostate whose biggest export is prostitution and gun-running?

Historically, the other former empires above generally enacted foreign policies in their own self-interest and periodically re-evaluated them to ensure they were in their self-interest (except for Britain, which stupidly blundered into WWI and got weakened so much that the Irish and Afghans were able to slaughter them after 1918).

In contrast, on the Kosovo issue, the USA invaded Kosovo and bombed Serb civilians in 1999 not out of self-interest, not even the extension of power— but because ex-President Bill Clinton was still trying to overcome the humiliation of his impeachment, and Hillary Clinton’s anger at him for Blow Job-gate with Monica Lewinsky.

So, true to form, Bill and Hillary Clinton lined up all the PC, neoliberal, neoconservative, globalist propagandists to fabricate atrocities (which were being committed by all sides), to launch an offensive war of absolutely no self-interest to us whatsoever, and in arrogant betrayal of our Serb and Christian allies. The Muslims, of course, thanked the USA for Kosovo by perpetrating the 9/11 attacks, the most severe attack on US soil since the British burned down the White House in the War of 1812.

Perhaps it’s not too surprising that Dhimmified Britain, Australia and Canada joined up with us in attacking Christians, since they’re all rapidly putting their own citizens under Shari’a law.

But in the USA, pseudo-conservative George W. Bush and now Barack Hussein Obama, rather than re-evaluating Bill Clinton’s boondoggle— undertaken as a fig leaf for Blow Job-gate— just continue in the same direction, cheered on even by Republicans.

I’ll say it again— the USA needs a 3rd Party, a Paleoconservative Party with an isolationist beat. Rather than “invade the world, invite the world, in debt to the world” (Bill Clinton and George W. Bush), it would pull our troops out of idiotic wars like Kosovo, stop beating up on Christians and mind our own business at home. If it kills the Republicans— fine, they’re going the way of the Whigs anyway, while even many isolationist “liberals” dislike Democratic interventionism.

The point is, the old “conservative/liberal” labels don’t work anymore, because both Democrats and Republicans are essentially globalist, pro-war, Christian-hating PC-neutered elites who hate the masses of the US population who have to work real jobs. A pox on both of them. The vast majority of the US population, both in Democratic and Republican camps, tend toward the “Paleocon” direction— just look at the letters to the editor of even the ultra-liberal NYT and you can see this. So we need a new party, immediately. Or maybe a revolution instead.