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West haunted by Balkans blunder
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By Don Feder
Monday, December 3, 2001
C 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/
As the war in Afghanistan goes on, the ghost of interventions past
sits in a courtroom in The Hague.
America can drop tons of explosives and send in the Marines to
fight Taliban terrorism. But when the Serbs confronted a similar menace,
they were demonized and bombed for 78 days, and had a province wrested
from them and presented to Osama bin Laden's Balkan brigade.
Slobodan Milosevic has been charged with complicity to commit
genocide and crimes against humanity. Before the travesty is over, he
will doubtless be convicted of running the rail line to Auschwitz.
The former Yugoslav president is a thug whose brutality played
into the terrorists' hands. Even so, the trial of Milosevic before a
U.N. tribunal is intended to justify our Balkans blunder and discourage
serious consideration of its consequences.
If what happened to Kosovo Albanians and Bosnian Moslems was
genocide, what of the treatment of Orthodox Serbs? After NATO's air war,
200,000 were driven from Kosovo. Most who remain cower behind
barbed-wire barricades in Mitrovica.
Altogether, 2 million Serbs were expelled from Bosnia, Croatia and
Kosovo, and 240 of their churches were destroyed. When this happens to
anyone else, it's called ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide.
The tragedy has its roots in the early 1990s, when the West
decided Bosnians and Croatians were entitled to their own states. Fine,
said Belgrade, but why should 2 million Serbs living there be forcibly
expatriated? Who would protect their rights - the Bosnian Muslims who
committed genocide against Serbs in World War II?
When local Serbs tried to secede from the secessionist states,
they were reviled as racists who hated all non-Serbs and lived to rape
and plunder.
After Bosnia and Croatia came Kosovo. Albanian Muslims became a
majority in Serbia's ancient heartland through illegal immigration. They
started when the Kosovo Liberation Army (on the State Department's
terrorist list as late as 1998) began murdering Serb policemen.
Milosevic overreacted. At Rambouillet, then-President Clinton and
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave him an ultimatum (surrender
of sovereignty over all of Yugoslavia) no self-respecting nation could
accept. After the Gulf War, Washington was determined to prove its
human-rights commitment by coming to the aid of persecuted Muslims. The
result was the creation of a second de facto Islamic republic in Europe.
In October, NATO's secretary general, Lord Robertson, warned that
the Balkans must not become another "black hole" of terrorism, like
Afghanistan. He was referring to the operations of our erstwhile allies.
On Oct. 3, the Los Angeles Times reported, "Hundreds of foreign
Islamic extremists who became Bosnian citizens after battling Serbian
and Croatian forces present a potential security threat to Europe and
the United States."
Bin Laden, who's been heavily involved in the region since 1992,
was reportedly presented with a Bosnian passport for services rendered.
The same international legion that's fighting with the Taliban earlier
served the Islamic cause in Bosnia and Kosovo.
In his Islamic Declaration, former Bosnian President Alija
Izetbegovic (celebrated in the West as a multiculturalist) proclaimed,
"There can be no peace or coexistence between the Islamic faith and
non-Islamic societies and political institutions."
The Kosovo "freedom fighters" (as Sen. Joe Lieberman once called
them) are equally grateful for Western support. In one of the al-Qaida
camps overrun in Afghanistan, Americans found an entry application from
a Kosovo Albanian that read, "I have Kosovo Liberation Army combat
experience against Serb forces. ... I recommend suicide operations
against parks like Disney."
After the subjugation of Kosovo, Muslims moved on Macedonia.
Despite a NATO-brokered cease-fire, on Nov. 11 terrorists killed three
Macedonian policemen who were trying to guard a mass grave said to hold
the remains of civilians killed by the guerrillas.
Is the Albanian area of Macedonia destined to become Europe's
third Islamic republic?
The circus surrounding Milosevic's trial is meant to distract us
from the reality of our Balkans misadventure - when we went to war not
against terrorism, but in its behalf.
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Don Feder is a syndicated columnist for the Boston Herald.
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