http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3381
by Scott Sullivan
John Bolton has voiced the alarm about Albania’s power play to take Kosovo from Serbia. Good. Such a US warning is long overdue. In fact, Bolton’s warnings on the threat to regional stability from Kosovo’s so-called “independence” come almost too late to be effective (in truth, Kosovo would instantly be taken by a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2936 and Montenegro).
Kosovar PM Thaci will next week announce a timetable for separating Kosovo from Serbia. If Bolton is serious, he will have President Bush and Senator McCain, whom Bolton has endorsed for US president, call Kosovar PM http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3146 and ask him to postpone his announcement. Bolton can then call upon Senators McCain and Clinton, the two strongest proponents of Kosovo independence, to sponsor an immediate Senate resolution and an up or down Senate vote on Kosovo independence.The Senate, especially McCain and Clinton, who seek to be president, surely will want a Senate floor debate and to go on the record on this war and peace issue? Macedonia has just asked for fast track NATO membership because of the irredentist threat from Kosovo and Albania. In practical terms, this means that US troops, via NATO, would be responsible for stabilizing Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia.
This is just the beginning of a US/NATO surge in the Balkans. How about US/NATO protection for http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2789 and Croatia? Both states are candidates for Bush’s fast track Balkan expansion program for NATO, quietly supported by McCain. Does the Senate approve of this fast track NATO expansion throughout the Balkans. Would the deployment of additional US troops for the Balkans detract from US securirty elswhere, especially from Operation Surge in Iraq?
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30738.html