Kosovo's Grim Future

Forget about status negotiations for a moment. The near-term outlook for Kosovo is unalterably grim: An economy stuck in misery; a bursting population of young people with "criminality as the sole career choice;" an insupportably high birthrate; a society imbued with corruption and a state dominated by organized crime figures.

These are the conclusions of "Operationalizing of the Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans," a 124-page investigation by the Institute for European Policy commissioned by the German Bundeswehr and issued in January. This month the text turned up on a Web log. It is labeled "solely for internal use." Provided one can plow through the appallingly dense Amtsdeutsch — "German officialese" — that is already evident in the ponderous title, a reader is rewarded with sharp insights about Kosovo.

The authors point out a "grotesque denial of reality by the international community" about Kosovo, coupling that with the warning of "a new wave of unrest that could greatly exceed the level of escalation seen up to now," The institute authors, Mathias Jopp and Sammi Sandawi, spent six months interviewing 70 experts and mining current literature on Kosovo in preparing the study.

In their analysis, political unrest and guerrilla fighting in the 1990s led to basic changes which they call a "turnabout in Kosovo-Albanian social structures." The result is a "civil war society in which those inclined to violence, ill-educated and easily influenced people could make huge social leaps in a rapidly constructed soldateska....

You can’t blame it all on Clinton.

It’s been the Bush administration’s policy for the last seven years. Clinton can’t take all the blame. If you’ve read the endless stream of rhetoric coming from Washington and the US ambassadors to the Balkans you’d think Kosovo (some of them say Kosova) was full of loving peace-niks just looking to get along with their neighbors.

It’s just another failed liberal policy coming from the current administration.

"Where is Europe on this one? It’s in their back yard, not ours. If they want to fix the problem, they can. If not, it’s their world."

If the Kosovo situtation "simply envolved", you would be correct. But it didn't. US Policy has been driving "Kosovo Independence" and has been strong-arming Europe into accepting it. Some countries, including Spain, are not giving in to the pressure from us because they see what it really means to them and anyone else with large compact minorities with secessionist leanings.

Why the US is driving this policy, is anyone's guess -- all the possible "why?"s, however, involved corruption -- whether we are trying to establish "a NATO State", use Camp Bondsteel as a "new Guantanamo" without media pressure, or we are kissing more Saudi butt and spreading Islam for them. Take your pick, they are all possibilities. The only thing that is sure is that the result of "Kosovo Independence" would be break every international law, establish a precedent for secessionists everywhere to seize land by force and have it legalized, and to break any and all resistance to the Islamization of Europe while giving them a new beach head from which to attack us. Kosovo is the conduit for drugs, sex-trafficking and illegal weapons -- in short, they are primarily "the facilitators for jihad" (with some jihadists themselves thrown in, as were several of the "Fort Dix Six") and our State department idiots are backing them!

Wish I could say that this is "all Clinton", but it's not. Too many neocons on the pro-Albanian bandwagon (or more likely "gravy train"), too!

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