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U.S. support of Kosovo a mistake
Rinn Marler
Issue date: 3/4/08 Section: Commentary
For the past several weeks the news in America has been dominated by the
upcoming presidential race. A grievous misstep by our government is
occurring now however, and it is getting little attention. This mistake is
blatantly harmful to American interests as well as unjust.
The United States has been supporting the Kosovar Albanians ever since the
NATO invasion and occupation of Serbian Kosovo in 1999 which was meant to
stop genocidal campaigns committed against the Albanians by Serbs. The
Kosovar Albanians recently declared independence and the United States was
one of the first to recognize and support its independence. In fact they
never would have been able to pull independence off unless we were to
recognize them.
The United States is wrong to support Kosovo. First, it is documented that
Al-Qaeda and other radical Islamic groups have supported the Kosovar
Albanians, with both money and troops. It makes no sense that the United
States is aiding the terrorist enemy.
Second, our position has been that Kosovo should be independent because of
the Serbian atrocities committed upon the Kosovar Albanians. The Albanian
However did the same thing to the Serbs during World War II, and the Serbs
did the same thing again to the Albanians in 1870, and the list goes on and
on. Why are we making the decision for them? It is near impossible to argue
that it is a necessity to US national interest to step in and be the judge
in a feud which we know nothing about and have no initial stake in.
Kosovo is the equivalent of a Serbian Jerusalem. For Serbia, imagining their
country without Kosovo would be like imagining an England without London. We
are inadvertently aiding Al-Qaeda and wounding the Serbs.
(Contributing writer Rinn Marler is a senior politics major)
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