I posted when the Kosovo independence story first showed up here, that it was big news ... big BAD news.


Hopefully Putin will be unable to fan the flames much further in Serbia, but don't count on it.

Where are all our resident Muslim-haters? They never get tired of telling us that only Muslims do this kind of stuff, and Christians always protest in calm and civilized manner.

This is also related to Chechyna and Georgian Muslims in their fight against Russia.

Both are waging guerilla wars against Russian refusal to allow those two nations independence & to protect their rights to substantial oil and Russia of course wants that oil too.

Im still trying to collect enough facts to formulate an opinion about the declaration of independence by Kosovo however what I do know, is US support is more about Russia then it is about helping Albanians get their own nation.

Our government is installing a Missile Defense Sheild across Europe, which Russia sees as an overt threat to its security & power & has already told the Chimp that he's triggered another nuclear arms race.

Kosovo is about Russia.

"itrestiong" is an eccentric spelling of "interesting"

The CNN headline now is "Russia threatens force over Kosovo":
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/22/serbia.kosovo/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

This is getting itrestiong. It should be the main thread here, but I guess the debates are more important than a superpower showdown.

The charred body found in the embassy was a male protester. I nominate him for the next Darwin Award.

The riot and attack against the US embassy didn't come as a surprise. The Serbs are not going to give up their land (rightfully so) because it's a popular decision with some western nations. The question that remains is how this situation will be handled. NATO can't really do much militarily because China and Russia won't stand for it. This is not a Balkan war with a country's provinces separating. This is territory being taken away by Albanians who left Albania in droves yet for some strange reason want to create a "greater Albania" (waving the Albanian flag in Kosovo made that pretty blatant) So what happens next? Violent protests won't disappear. I wonder what kind of spin foreign policy strategists are going to take on this one. Can't upset China - they're lending $$ for the Iraq war. Can't upset Russia - relations are already strained. Guess it's time for another quagmire booster.

The breakup of Yugoslavia happened under Clinton's watch.

Let water find its own level. Keep your dirty hands out of this, US! Imagine what if US had invaded Cuba for regime change, how many innocent people would have died and their country destroyed.
I read a recent article by UK Post Guardian how third generations of Vietnamese are still paying for the effect of Agent Orange, a diotoxin, used by the US to defoliate the jungle. One million Vietnmese are affected with cancer,miscarriages and their babies born deformed. 80 million litres of this damaging agent was poured into the jungles of Vietnam.
It stay in the soil for years and are washed down into the water table. Their drinking water is contaminated with diotoxin 200times above the permissible level. It will cause billions to clean up and so far US has donated a pittance of a few millions.
US is not part of the International War Crime Tribunal simply because they will be putting theselves onto the gulty seat.
This is besides the millions of tons of bombs dumped into Vietnam exceeding the total combinations of bombs dropped during the first and second world war.
There are still unexploded ordinance such as napalm taking a toll on children who picks them up because it looks like toys.
I am not proud of US for the cruelty and unstabilty they caused to the world although I thank them for ending the second world war.
The world admires the small guy who fight against the big bully and wins. It is the hearts and mind of people that overcome incredible odds. I salute the Vietnamese for their courage to stand up to a big bully for their freedom.

The current situation in the Balkans is the outcome of a strategic maneuvering by the USA against Russia. If you haven't noticed we have re-entered a new phase of the cold war between Russia and America.
The Kosovo issue is directly related to the American Foreign Policy which is expressed by NATO. The Americans want to abolish Russian influence in the Balkans and therefore, are setting up friendly "country-states" that will be under US dominance (NATO) and not Russian. The problem for the US is that although Greece,Romania and Bulgaria are in NATO they still have close ties to Russia since they share a common religion of Orthodoxy. Unfortunately, Serbia has to pay the price since they are still loyal to Russia. However, this doesn't exclude the other orthodox nations. Greece is just about to lose its Northern state called Macedonia by the US supported FYRO Macedonia (created by Communist Tito) and Bulgaria has similar problems with Fyrom. In Romania, the Hungarian minority has already started talks of independency.
The Bush motto of 'your either with us or against us' has just been applied to the Balkans. The Albanian Muslims are the vehicle.
Greece, your next.

Let's just stay out of everyone's business. Why should the American taxpayer be forced to take care of the world.

bush dances in Africa,obama lies in Texas and McCain plays with his lobbyist--while our embassy is attacked by stupid,drunk Serbians-what leadership we are faced with--God help America

bush dances in Africa,obama lies in Texas and Mcain plays with his lobbyist--while our embassy is attacked by stupid,drunk Serbians-what leadership we are faced with--God help Aerica

We just insist on interfering in places we have no business in. Will Rogers said

"When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you"ve got to have been looking for it.

Why is this merely a substory? Is it because we had already evacuated the embassy? I swear, the press and even HuffPo is way too concerned about an 8 year old "exposé" about Sen. McCain. They don't even care about the fact that the US embassy was torched. They're obviously not allocating any of their extensive foreign policy expert resources to covering such a pivotal story that foreshadows a greater conflict brewing in that region. I guess that they'll wait for Russia's Putin to send troops to Serbia's aid in quelling their rebellion before they focus any attention to it. By then it will already be too late. Russia will use Kosovo as an example to its beloved Chechnya. Their message, "attempt at rebellion will be met with obliteration."
Whatever...I had high hopes for HuffPo to rise above the "Obama V. Clinton: Round 34" route. I guess that I was wrong.