In case you have not read Julia Gorin's response to Michael Totten's commentary: <http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/157/full> http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/157/full
Please go to http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/06/tottens-kosovo.html to read Julia's entire article. Stella « <http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/06/muslim-inmate-t.htm l> MUSLIM TERROR PLOT INMATES CONVICTED | Main <http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/> | UNSC <http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/06/will-the-unsc-m.htm l> to Mirror UN "Human" Rights Council? » Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Atlas Exclusive: Julia Gorin Takes on Conservative Bloggers who call the Kosovo Jihad by Another Name Road trip! Well sometimes the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Michael Totten in a sweet, unstudied fashion, has decided <http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/06/the-road-to-kos.php> to weigh in on the Kosovo controversy by taking a road trip through Kosovo and Bosnia. Eating his way through chocolate chip cookies and bad twinkies he counts bullets in Kosovo (not a lot) and Bosnia (many more!) and goes on to anecdotally deduce and draw his own conclusions. It's silly and cute but it don't fly. Sorry. It's dangerous because Totten has done excellent work on Iraq. Lending his credibility to a fallacious argument will drive what little thoughtful discourse there is on this complicated controversy further down the rabbit hole. Totten has clearly become what Gorin coins "another Western propagandist for Albania and for the "continued, recycled demonization of the 'anti-American' Serbs. The response by Serbs to America feeding them to Muslims and Nazis is not a cemented, blood-embedded “anti-Americanism” as these types portray". Here is the first in a series of rebuttals that I am going to publish by Julia Gorin, a leading expert in the matter of Kosovo and Bosnia. Julia Gorin exclusively at Atlas: In some conservatives’ goodly but naïve quest to find pro-American and truly moderate Muslims, many are sticking their noses into Albanian-dominated Kosovo, a region and situation to which they are imposters, as they have not been following developments there for the nine years since our bombing of Belgrade on behalf of Muslims claiming nothing less than genocide, later downgraded to “ethnic cleansing” which later--when no one was looking--was <http://www.balkanpeace.org/index.php?index=./content/monitor/mgen/mgen17.in cl> further <http://www.agitprop.org.au/stopnato/1999110101.htm> downgraded <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/aug/18/balkans3> by major <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/1 1/MN55124.DTL> newspapers <http://www.usatoday.com/news/index/kosovo/koso1006.htm> (including <http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/pearl123199.htm> the Wall St. Journal's Daniel Pearl) to what it actually was: a counter-terrorist operation rooting <http://www.balkanpeace.org/index.php?index=/content/monitor/koskss/kss66.in cl> out KLA insurgents in a turf war <http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=1490> between ethnic Albanians and their host society of Yugoslavia. One imposter is the otherwise reputable blogger Michael J. Totten who, like the rest of the herd (in a case of the blogosphere being strangely indistinguishable from the mainstream media it polices), started his foray into Kosovo with a blog post on Commentary magazine’s website. I responded on JihadWatch.com, with an article that I reproduce below.
