By Ted Belman
As well, it is a favorite vocation of conservatives who want to earn their “I’m not anti-Muslim” stripes–to pile even more on those most expendable of whities, the Serbs. The Balkans are the bone we toss to the Islamic world in its perpetual but elsewhere transparent imaginings of genocides, massacres and hate crimes against them. At the policy level, attempting to win over the Muslim world by giving them Serbian territory and all the interventions that this included was a clearly stated goal-not only by Tom Lantos (D-CA) and Robert Wexler (D-FL) in April, but early on by Lawrence Eagleburger who, as Dr. Srdja Trifkovic wrote in his book Defeating Jihad, “said that a goal in Bosnia was to mollify the Muslim world and to counter any perception of an anti-Muslim bias regarding American policies in Iraq in the period leading up to Gulf War I.” Added Trifkovic, “The result of years of policies thus inspired is a terrorist base in the heart of Europe, a moral debacle, and the absence of any positive payoff to the United States.”
Israpundit has been host for almost a year to numerous posts on the dismemberment of Yugoslavia. Thanks to Felix Quigley, Francisco Gil-White, Robert Peter North, Bokababe and Nathan Pearlstein I was forced, kicking and screaming, to entertain their arguments and evidence. The more I read, the more I became a believer. I wrote many articles myself on the matter.
Now one of the leading experts on the matter, Julia Gorin, whose articles have been posted on this site also, has just written a major article Ending the Balkan Quagmire at American Thinker. American thinker has, to its credit, given her ample space to take on two articles they published which attempted to debunk her arguments and facts.
After studying this article, you can also search “Kosovo” and/or “Serbia” on Israpundit. Particularly read Gil-White’s Articles on the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia to begin your journey.
