I'm with those who say that we were way too hasty to recognize Kosovo. I mean, it was almost instantaneous, as if we'd been given the heads up and had the document ready and waiting to go. The question is why?
The only reason which occurs to me (apart from gross incompetence, which may indeed be the case), is that this is seen by the US government as a single piece in a much larger jig-saw puzzle; namely the question of attempting to win over the hearts and minds of moderate Muslims and moderate Islamic nations, if there are such things. By recognizing a declaration of independence by a new Muslim nation, I think Bush is saying "OK, now you guys owe us one! We've helped Kosovo, now help us to fight al-Qaeda!" In other words, a trade-off
Probably a complete waste of time and utterly naive but that may be where Bush is coming from.
The Serbs are the fall guys in this deal of course and they get ripped off but we've probably decided that they don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. They obviously think we feel this way also, which is why they've just trashed our embassy