If this is the case, then its as misguided a policy as trying to broker Middle East peace by having Israel negotiate with Fatah and Hamas. There's good intentions and then there's reality.
(1) Kosovo is not an "Islamic Republic", but a secular one, with no official state religion and no religious political parties.
OK, not an official Islamic Republic i.e. Iran, but a Muslim nation run by Muslims for Muslims who will continue to ethnically cleanse non-Muslim peoples like they have for the past decade. One can hope that it will be more like Jordan and Turkey than Syria and Iran, but I would expect the latter knowing the leadership involved.
America's interest is in maintaining the reputation of NATO as a guarantor of regional security. If there is a war in Europe, it is NATO's business. And NATO's business is obviously America's business.
NATO is not a European police force. It was never meant to be the guarantor of "regional security" ouside of the threat of the Eastern bloc countries. To spell it out for you, the situation in the Balkans is NOT America's business.
Did the world not learn its lesson in 1918?
Entangling alliances + Balkan unrest = Trouble
Again, the mistaken analysis that Kosovo is a Christian versus Muslim conflict.
Most Serbs aren't practicing Christians and most Kosovar Albanians are not practicing Muslims.
Observant beleivers are a small minority in both these post-Communist, secularized populations.
The PDK is not Hamas.
This is a conflict between Albanians and Serbs.
a Muslim nation run by Muslims for Muslims who will continue to ethnically cleanse non-Muslim peoples
The population of ethnic Albanian Catholics in Kosovo is growing, while the population of ethnic Serbian Muslims (the Gorani Serbs) is declining.
Which again suggests that this is primarily an ethnic conflict.
One can hope that it will be more like Jordan and Turkey than Syria and Iran, but I would expect the latter knowing the leadership involved.
The brutal Thaci realizes that the only profitable path to the future is the kind of government that can earn EU approval.
There will be no one-party state in Kosovo as in Syria and there will be no sharia state in Kosovo like Iran.
It was never meant to be the guarantor of "regional security" ouside of the threat of the Eastern bloc countries.
NATO's entire value propsition to its constituent members was that it could guarantee collective security in Europe at a far lower cost than the collective security on offer from the Warsaw Pact.
Did the world not learn its lesson in 1918?
It is 2008, not 1914. And the Balkans are not magical.
The current situation is different - in many ways the diametric opposite - from the Balkan situation in 1914.