Worst case scenario, this puts them in the category of Russia and China, who are strategic and military competitors and have aligned themselves with Iran. Are we attacking and occupying greater Russia and China? No, we are going after the Serbs because they are weak.
While the Albanians of Kosovo are not very nice customers, they aren't the ones making deals with Ahmadinejad.
By allying with the KLA, we have helped set up an Islamic Republic in the middle of the powder keg of Europe by carving out a region that has been a part of Serbia since the 1200s. Some stability.
You're free to discount the evidence of involvement of KLA members and Al-Qaeda, but KLA members have already been accused and sentenced for war crimes. Milosevic was evil, but its insane to allign yourself with drug-running Al-Qaeda sympathizers just to take down one regional communist strongman. Striking the Serbs in the Balkans served no purpose with respect to American interests.
So, in other words, Serbia is on the same level as Russia and China. If so, we do not owe the Serbs a damned thing.
No, we are going after the Serbs because they are weak.
This is another way of saying the America is a bully that is incapable of standing up to Russia or China.
A laughable notion.
America is motivated by a desire for stability in the Balkans and the avoidance of another bloody war.
The US is apparently the only party that does not want to see widescale shedding of Serbian blood or anyone else's.
By allying with the KLA, we have helped set up an Islamic Republic in the middle of the powder keg of Europe by carving out a region that has been a part of Serbia since the 1200s.
(1) Kosovo is not an "Islamic Republic", but a secular one, with no official state religion and no religious political parties.
(2) Serbs have claimed Kosovo since the 1000s.
However, due to the Ottoman Empire, the area has not been majority Serb for centuries now.
Between 1455 and 1878, the Ottoman period, the only time Kosovo became politically independent was in 1689 - under the leadership of an Albanian Catholic.
Most of the Serbs living in Kosovo were settled there by the Kingdom of Serbia after 1878 in an attempt to reclaim the land demographically for the Serbian people.
You're free to discount the evidence of involvement of KLA members and Al-Qaeda
I'm not discounting it at all. I'm pointing out that the KLA has never formally aligned itself with Islamic terrorist groups the way that Serbia has entered into a pact with the world's premier Islamofascist state and Hezbollah sponsor.
Milosevic was evil, but its insane to allign yourself with drug-running Al-Qaeda sympathizers just to take down one regional communist strongman.
If you think the VRS was never involved in drug-running you're engaging in self-deception.
Every Balkan militia is guilty.
America's interest is in maintaining the reputation of NATO as a guarantor of regional security. If tehre is a war in Europe, it is NATO's business. And NATO's business is obviously America's business.