Another Great Clinton Foreign Policy Success

The American Spectator ^ | December 15, 2010 | Doug Bandow

[Ravnagora]

It was never easy to understand why the Clinton administration intervened in Kosovo. The U.S. had not made a habit of deciding which European state was obligated to grant independence to which disaffected minority. For instance, Spain told Basques to stuff it without much comment from Washington. And the U.S. never worried about its allies using brutality against guerrillas--the Turkish campaign against the Kurds destroyed thousands of villages and killed tens of thousands of people, while the U.S. provided Ankara with arms.

However, the prospect of getting involved in a conflict with no conceivable relationship to U.S. interests drew the Clinton administration into the Balkans. So Washington joined with a majority of European states in a policy that could be defined as "the Serbs always lose": Everyone got to secede from Yugoslavia/Serbia, but Serbs could never secede from anyone else, whether Bosnia, Croatia, or Kosovo, irrespective of the principle of ethnic self-determination and threat of human rights violations.

Thus, the U.S. joined with a majority of European states to bomb Serbia for 78 days to force it to relinquish its control over Kosovo. Then the allies presided over mass ethnic-cleansing by the ethnic Albanian majority. Finally, the U.S. and European Union promoted faux negotiations with the understanding that the outcome was already set: independence for Kosovo. And the northern majority Serb areas of Kosovo were supposed to supinely accept their status rather than seek to remain with Serbia. When Belgrade refused to go along, the allies backed Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence. But Russia has blocked Kosovo's entry into the UN and the majority of states do not recognize the new nation.

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[piytar]

It’s simply part of the marxist/islamist axis. A bunch of muslims exterminate a bunch of Christians. And our nation helped thanks to Clinton.

Yes, it was more complex than that, but that was the end result.

[yarddog]

I agree, this country’s attack on Serbia was one of the worst things this country has ever done.

We attacked and killed a lot of our best friends in the region to help some of our worst enemies and the justification turned out to be false to boot.

[piytar]

Yup. The same libs who condemned Bush as a war criminal for going after a real butcher of a dictator cheered Clinton when he helped slaughter 10's of thousands of Christians.

As I now say, liberalism is a mental disorder evil.