In 1815, there was no Al Queda or Saudi regime. It is a fact that foreign fighters are coming into Kosovo to fight what they see as a jihadist conflict. It is a fact that million of dollars in Saudi aid is coming into Kosovo every year to build mosques and schools to radicalize Muslims there in Wahabbi dogma. In 1815 there was no international heroin trade, or int'l kidnapping/sex slave trade. The Kosovars run those trades in all of Europe right now. Although it is good to have a historical perspective, it is naive to think that ancient feuds trump powerful modern realities. An independent Kosovo is a great threat in the context of a resurgent Islam and the WOT. Savage understands this. Bush does not. Do you?
Our president wouldn't understand the concept of a nation having neither eternal friends nor enemies only eternal interests if it bit him on the ankle. That was obvious by his irrational cheerleading episode in Trirana earlier this week. Getting all worked up because Serbia rescued downed America airmen in WW II is a non sequitur, neither does it impact on U.S. interests if Albania swallows Kosovo unless we want to placate Mr. Putin and his new found interest in the Pan-Salvic movement that Russia has advanced since Tsar Nicholas II sought to protect his geographic ''six'' from an encompassing Austro-Hungarian Empire urged on by The Kaiser and Bismarck before 1871 and even after by Bismarck's replacement from 1871- to the start of WW I.
The subject, if one wishes to make it so, is exceedingly complex and not properly susceptible to bumber sticker argument or Savage-like sound bites that begin with a conclusion without the benefit of any historic or contemporary international power relationship analysis. Outbursts like those posted here are easy, simplistic, sound macho and--are equally wrong. I'm out--das ende !!!!