I THINK we agree about this. The Serbs can take care of themselves, if we just let it alone. The danger is if we DO intervene, since it’s all too likely that the leftist press and intellectuals would push us to intervene on the wrong side again. Not even most Republicans understand that clinton fought that war on the wrong side, so we have to rely more on war weariness and the fact we are not directly threatened rather than common sense.
And while I don’t think I’d go as far as what Kolokotronis has just written—since it was clinton who did the major damage and Bush who is only following up on it—the greatest danger is that we, or the Germans and the French, or other clueless members of what used to be called western civilization, would intervene again on the wrong side.
If clinton, Schroeder, and Blair had only just stood back in the first place, the Serbs could have gotten it straightened out, since the biggest problem in the first place was Muslim terrorists infiltrating Kosovo—terrorists whom NATO decided to support.
Yes, we are so easily manipulated. But if we were to be dragged back in, I'd become a Balkan war protester, with signs saying to spare our great fighting forces from having anything to do with that grotesque farce.