The coming Balkan wars

You wonder why we are always at war? Our foreign policy decisions are make by wishful thinking loons. Now we have helped create the next world powder keg. All involved in setting the stage for the coming Balkan wars and the next cold war with Russia richly deserve my Demented Delusional or Dumb Club of the week award. Congratulations!

On Sunday, Kosovo declared independence and was recognized by the
European Union and President Bush. But this is not the end of the
story. It is only the preface to a new history of the Balkans, a region
that has known too much history.

By intervening in a civil war to aid the secession of an ancient
province, to create a new nation that has never before existed and, to
erect it along ethnic, religious and tribal lines, we have established
a dangerous precedent. Muslim and Albanian extremists are already
talking of a Greater Albania, consisting of Albania, Kosovo and the
Albanian-Muslim sectors of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia.

If these Albanian minorities should demand the right to secede and
join their kinsmen in Kosovo, on what grounds would we oppose them? The
inviolability of borders? What if the Serb majority in the Mitrovica
region of northern Kosovo, who reject Albanian rule, secede and call on
their kinsmen in Serbia to protect them?

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