Posted on 10/29/2008 10:51:47 PM PDT by Bokababe
An American analyst believes that the Balkans, with the exception of Kosovo, will hardly feature among the new U.S. administration's foreign policy priorities.
Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs in New York Jonathan Clarke explained that Kosovo will be an exception because of the implications it may have on the Transcaucasus.
"I think that the Balkans will be at the bottom of the list of our priorities," Tanjug quoted him as saying.
But, he continued, since Russia will be one of the top priorities - because of the Russian gas, Moscow's relations Brussels and Russia's influence in the Near East – "I think that there will be an undercover reexamination of the consequences of the Kosovo independence recognition," Clarke said in an interview with the Voice of America.
He holds that there is growing consensus in the West that the decision on Kosovo was reached in a hasty manner and without the consent of Moscow, which has caused an aggravation of relations with Russia.
"The West's further insisting on [Russian] concessions, particularly in respect to Serbia, might lead to certain repercussions in the relations with Russia, which the West will, of course, try to avoid from now on," the U.S. analyst assessed.
BTT to you Cacique! Go get-um cowboy!
....there is growing consensus in the West that the decision on Kosovo was reached in a hasty manner.....
The decsion to enact “Kosovo independence” was grossly unwise, and even vile and evil. But I would not call it “hasty”.
Quite a few years ago, I attended a forum of high-level “human rightser”pundits and advisors to European and US governments advocating “conditional independence” for a muslim Kosovo. (I’m proud to say that I stood up to them,even though that did nothing to stop their evil plots.)
So “Kosovo independence” has been long (perhaps as much as a decade, even before the NATO bombing) in the making.
So I would not call the decision “hasty”, but deliberate and unwise.
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