Kosovo Crisis was a cornerstone of Clinton’s political “wisdom” (political “suicide” is a more appropriate noun – but banking on the traditional short term memory of all of us, hard pressed with other issues – fuel, taxes, elections – who really will remember Kosovo and NATO’s engagement against Serbia). His (Clinton’s) 1999 bombing Christian Serbs into submission to allow spread of Islam within the cradle of Eastern Orthodox Christianity (Kosovo was called “Serbian Jerusalem” by Julia Gorin, and additionally in Jewish World Daily’s from July 23rd 2006 02:30:06 PM, titled “Our Friends the Bosnians II” with reprint from The Jerusalem Post (at: www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite) stating “Jewish groups are troubled by a new property restitution law in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina that officially discriminates in favor of the country's Muslims.” In Ms. Gorin’s sardonic sense “Well, well, well. Surprise, surprise, surprise! Boy it’s a good thing that the Jewish community went along with the Clintons and the media in taking up the Bosnian-Muslim cause against Christian Serbs throughout the 90s. Let’s all pat ourselves on the back.”
It is impossible to underestimate the threat of Islam. The politically mandated obfuscation often requires the critics of the present administration to include other non-relating topics to achieve some partial victory or at the very least deflect attention from the unpleasant topic such as this one. Let’s not forget that this topic has nothing to do with WMD, or Dick Cheney’s hunting accident or G. W. Bush’s stand on Iraq – Iran, since two wrongs don’t make a right, so much more so, if they are totally unrelated. The encroaching nature of Islam (in many of the recent instances – will mature to the Bosnia syndrome from the above source), present Hezbollah provocation seeking to get Israelis into reprisals – worked just fine, didn’t it? Now with the benefit of the hindsight’s vision we can all rest assured that granting concessions to Islam may backfire a few years later, or a few thousand miles away.
The above outlined unfolding of events should be at the forefront of our stand when we are viewing the on-going Serbia – Kosovo negotiations in Vienna (as commented at NYT By Nicholas Wood Published: July 25, 2006. In the words of Mr. Wood “The bombing followed a violent crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in the province.” – This is not accurate. The Albanians kept building up their massive presence in Kosovo by an uncontrolled border crossing (sounds like yet another current American issue) from the neighboring Albania (which openly kept encouraging the future KLA, funded by Saudi Arabia, other Islamic sources and even Bin Laden’s presence in Albania.
Therefore, there is a presence of the All-mighty who has arranged for us to see the errors of our ways (better late, than never) when dealing with some of the more explosive directions our politics would allow by repeating Clinton’s mistakes (let’s not even start on that voluminous topic – we’d be publishing 10 daily NYT editions for a full month, to cover only some of his first term “pearls”.
In closing, our summary is quite simple. The threat of Islam is very real and we can’t afford too many mistakes, nor too much leniency. For centuries Islam’s modus operandi has been “might makes right” – and only Israel has had the wisdom to respond in kind in the only language the Islamists can understand. Elsewhere, there is a toxic presence of too much unwarranted liberalism that may easily lead us astray. Our prior administration made concessions to Islam with both Bosnia and Kosovo – at present there is evidence that exactly 71 Jewish families of Sarajevo have been dispossessed of their apartments, and we’d better have some more reliable way of measuring the danger of Islam by using our brains not the number of Jewish families affected in Sarajevo. With a little bit of a foresight, at least the on-going Vienna talks can be viewed with more flair and intelligence. Didn’t we just have some real massive protests by the South and Central American nationals as far as getting granted rights – Kosovo’s newly arrived Albanians equally encroached on the Serbian ancient homesteads but got lucky to have had Clinton’s air power military cover in their pursuit of “rights” – equally baseless as the ones posted on placards here in the states.

Iliya Pavlovich PhD