Say Anything Blog

If one were to live 5,000 years, most likely the person observing humankind for that long would find that the most defining feature of history is that of repetition.

No doubt Bush forgot the triggering event for WWI, which were the threats made by Austro-Hungary to the small country of Serbia.  While Serbia is small, so is a fuse vis-a-vis the rest of the bomb.  And that bomb was (and still is) Russia.

History has shown us that Southeastern Europe was ground zero for the battles and wars that have repeatedly been fought between the West and Islam.  Kosovo holds a special place of honor to the Serb people, as it constitutes holy ground, as the scene of a momentous battle against the marauding Saracen.

Think on the significance that those seeking independence are in fact originally from neighboring Albania, if even from one or more generations removed.  Not content to coexist with the largely Orthodox Christian Serbs, the Kosovar Muslims, the ethnic Albanians, with support training and equipment from Iran and other parts of the Fundamentalist Islamic world,—via the KLA / UCK—waged a war of rape, slaughter and terror against the Serbs (and you thought our problem with Mexicans was bad)

Granted, there were reprisals by the Serbs.  Those reprisals were hyped and often vastly inflated by the Clinton-era MSM, while similtaneously giving the terror wrought by the Muslims a vigorous whitewash.

I noted previously that I thought Bush’s immediate recognition of Kosovar independence from Serbia a great mistake: Kosovo Recognition —Bush’s latest Big Mistake

Recent reports may prove that Kosovor independence may not stand as a fait accompli—indeed, it may be the triggering event to greater violence unless properly handled.

Putin warns West over Kosovo dispute

Earlier in the day, Russia’s envoy to NATO warned the alliance against overstepping its mandate in Kosovo and said Moscow might be forced to use “brute military force” to maintain respect on the world scene.

and

In a statement issued in Brussels the EU foreign ministers say that Kosovo’s history of “conflict, ethnic cleansing and humanitarian catastrophe” in the 1990s by Serbia exempts it from the rule that international borders can only be changed with the agreement of all parties. The EU countries that recognize Kosovo’s independence admit that they are doing so in violation of the rule of “territorial integrity” of nations under international law. They want to ‘punish’ Serbia for its misbehaviour in the 1990s, but fail to see that they are ‘punishing’ the whole of Europe by saddling it with a state run by criminal gangs.

Russia refuses to accept Kosovo’s independence. So does China. Moscow has called on the United Nations to annul Pristina’s decision. It will be interesting to see which countries will back Russia in the UN. Moscow’s allies in the Organization of Islamic States definitely will not. They applaud the establishment of a new Muslim state in Europe. Will Russia now become the leader of the Europeans who resist the Islamization of their continent? Or will the crisis in the Balkan trigger a new world war, just as the Great War was triggered in the Balkans in 1914?

Indeed, what will Russia do if the 16,000 NATO “peace keeping” troops in Kosovo attack the Serbian army when it attempts to recover its breakaway province? If Russia intervenes, then 2008 might become the year that war broke out between Russia and NATO. America, the EU, Europe’s immigrant “youths” and Osama bin Laden would find themselves on one side, and Russia, with China and the Europeans who resist Islamization on the other.