The Clinton and Bush administrations have handed Kosovo over to Muslim radicals and the Serbians should fight back.

In the spring 1999, the United States bombed Serbia for 78 days to force its army out of that nation’s cradle province of Kosovo. The Serbs were fighting Albanian separatists of the Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA. We had no more right to bomb Belgrade than the Royal Navy would have had to bombard New York in our Civil War, writes Patrick Buchanan.

We bombed Serbia, we were told, to stop the genocide in Kosovo. But there was no genocide. This was propaganda. The United Nations’ final casualty count of Serbs and Albanians in Slobodan Milosevic’s war did not add up to 1 percent of the dead in Mr. Lincoln’s war.

Albanians did flee in the tens of thousands during the war. But since that war’s end, the Serbs of Kosovo have seen their churches and monasteries smashed and vandalized and have been ethnically cleansed in the scores of thousands from their ancestral province. In the exodus, they have lost everything. The remaining Serb population of 120,000 is largely confined to enclaves guarded by NATO troops.

“At a Serb monastery in Pec,” writes the Washington Post, “Italian troops protect the holy site, which is surrounded by a massive new wall to shield elderly nuns from stone-throwing and other abuse by passing ethnic Albanians.”

Kosovo was a part of Serbia for 700 years; on Sunday, Kosovo declared independence and was recognized by the European Union and President Bush. Is this what we call Democracy and nation building? The KLA have been credibly charged with human trafficking, drug dealing, atrocities and terrorism.

What dangerous precedent is being set by allowing Kosovo independence in this manner?

Rumania has refused to recognize the new Republic of Kosovo, for the best of reasons. Bucharest rules a large Hungarian minority in Transylvania, acquired at the same Paris Peace Conference of 1919 where Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina were detached from Vienna and united with Serbia.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two provinces that have broken away from Georgia, are invoking the Kosovo precedent to demand recognition as independent nations. As our NATO expansionists are anxious to bring Georgia into NATO, here is yet another occasion for a potential Washington-Moscow clash.

Spain, too, opposed the severing of Kosovo from Serbia, as Madrid faces similar demands from Basque and Catalan separatists.

Mr. Buchanan continues:

By intervening in a civil war to aid the secession of an ancient province, to create a new nation that has never before existed and, to erect it along ethnic, religious and tribal lines, we have established a dangerous precedent. Muslim and Albanian extremists are already talking of a Greater Albania, consisting of Albania, Kosovo and the Albanian-Muslim sectors of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia.

If these Albanian minorities should demand the right to secede and join their kinsmen in Kosovo, on what grounds would we oppose them? The inviolability of borders? What if the Serb majority in the Mitrovica region of northern Kosovo, who reject Albanian rule, secede and call on their kinsmen in Serbia to protect them?

The U.S. war on Serbia was unconstitutional, unjust and unwise. Congress never authorized it and Serbia was an ally in two world wars and has never attacked the United States or threatened us. We made an enemy of the Serbs, and alienated Russia, to create a second Muslim state in the Balkans. The Muslim world has enthusiastically endorsed the creation of a new Muslim state in Europe at the expense of Orthodox Christian Serbs.

A senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Palestinians should follow the example of Kosovo and unilaterally declare independence. Yasser Abed Rabbo told the Voice of Palestine radio that Israel is not serious about reaching a peace deal with Palestinians, therefore, Palestinians should declare independence.

Independence is one thing but doing so while threatening your neighboring country and attacking it sets a poor example. Muslims in Kosovo are attacking Serbs and Palestinians still send suicide bombers into Israel. Hamas wants Israel and Jews removed from the Middle East, not only an independent Palestine.

In the last decade 50,000 Bosnians have moved to St. Louis and many to the South City Bevo Mill neighborhood, reports Gateway Pundit. St. Louis today is thought to hold the largest Bosnian population in the nation. So to make the local Bosnians feel more at home the local Islamic Center is putting up a prayer tower in the formerly Dutch and currently Bosniak neighborhood. Should St. Lousi cede part of the city to an entire Mulsim community if they ask for it on the grounds they are the majority population?

Writing about the St. Louis prayer tower has caused blogger Little Green Footballs to be threatened by CAIR, an organization that defends extremist Muslims while trying to stop freedom of speech by anyone who is not on board with them.

NATO forces are now protecting Serbs from Muslim extremists in Kosovo, which should help explain why bombing the Serbs was a mistake and claiming the Serbs were committing genocide was not accurate.

Is anyone surprised the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia is now under attack by local citizens? Sean McCormack of the State Department says Serbia has “a responsibility now to devote the adequate resources to ensure that that facility is protected.”

Who will protect Serbians? “izgoreti dijete izgoreti” See Serb Message for CNN

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