Since when did this become Bush’s failed policy in Kosovo? This was Clinton’s legacy, he got us stuck in that quagmire.
HEY CLINTON! HEY ALBRIGHT! WHAT WAS YOUR EXIT STRATEGY?
Thanks much for posting this.
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My first reaction was that UPI gave this the usual biased headline. AFter all, it’s primarily clinton’s failed Kosovo policy.
But, I hate to say it, they are perfectly right. Now it’s Bush’s failed Kosovo policy, too. He caught clinton’s pass and ran with it, and now he can just take the blame for his stupidity.
the article is pro Russian nonsense.
Ethnic slaughters happened prior to the us I tervention and under in supervision
Serbs support china crushing Tibet.
Surprise!
Shouldn’t this all be blamed on Hillary or Monica, or both?
If Hillary weren’t such a beeyatch, Bubba might actually have had marital relations with her. But she is what she is. Therefore, Monica.
Therefore, Linda Tripp.
Therefore, Klintoon’s legacy, the stained blue dress.
Therefore, hearings in Congress.
Therefore, Kosovo.
Bush has a lot of failed policies for his future presidential library... why not add the Balkans for good measure?
Which will come in handy when they want to separate irate Americans from Aztlan. Foreign troops won't hesitate to fire on Americans.
Unfortunately for international law and international stability, NATO's action against Serbia in 1999 was just such a war of aggression, waged without U.N. Security Council approval.
Lawlessness by western leaders is becoming increasingly the norm rather than the exception.
More fundamentally, stability in the international system can only be restored when the United States once again honors the fundamental principles of international law that it violated by attacking Iraq in 2003,...
I hate it when an author writes a very good piece and then shoots his credibility in the foot at the end of it.
‘toon’s failed kosovo policy!
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U.S. analyst: Recognition "not as expected"
23 March 2008 | 12:35 | Source: VOA, Tanjug
WASHINGTON -- The recognition of Kosovo's unilateral declaration is not going as expected, an independent U.S. analyst says.
This, John Zavales told the Voice of America, comes despite Washington's "international lobbying".
Zavales told the VOA that the protests in Belgrade and in northern Kosovo indicated that Kosovo's unilateral independence would cause instability in Serbia, Kosovo and the region.
"All in all, perhaps just about 50 countries will recognize Kosovo, out of the 192 UN members, which is not even one-third, and this certainly is not significant support, despite U.S. international lobbying for the independence of Kosovo," Zavales was quoted.
Zavales said that the unilateral declaration will have consequences on the secessionist movements in the world, and quoted Spain's concerns over the Basque region, and the concerns of Turkey, Iraq and Syria over their Kurdish minority.
"It is interesting that just a day after recognizing Kosovo's independence, Turkey sent thousands of troops to northern Iraq and implemented an operation against Kurdish separatists and rebels, which the United States supported," Zavales said, and added that "there are also the cases of Nagorno Karabakh, Abkhasia and South Ossetia".
"So, if the goal of the Western policy was to deconstruct the concept of statehood, reform the idea of sovereignty and create semi-states, then the support to Kosovo's independence may be interpreted as success, since from now on there will be countries which some states will recognize and some will not," Zavales concluded.