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From the desk of Joshua Trevino
Nearly unreported in the American media is the imminent culmination of one of America’s modern wars: in this case, the 1999 Kosovo War, in which NATO http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2526 will declare its independence as an Albanian-dominated statelet under the aegis of the Western powers. Contrary to the benign apathy with which our media and policy communities will greet it, this is a malign development on several levels.
The 1999 war itself was a strange replay of the “cabinet wars” of earlier centuries, commanding little popular support in any of the participating nations, and motivated by an elite consensus in the West that the Serbian regime of Slobodan Milosevic had to go. Indeed, that regime did more than its share to solidify that consensus with its rhetorical ineptitude and its sponsorship of the bloody-minded Serb war in Bosnia. The Western elites, including the Clinton Administration, were for their part embarrassed by their years of inaction in Bosnia, and as such were hypersensitive to replays of that situation elsewhere – and concurrently eager to show, if only to themselves, that they had learned its lessons. Kosovo’s simmering conflict between Serbs and Albanians struck all the right chords, down to the main villain.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2956