West was an icon of the left in the middle of the 20th Century. She launched her career as a leftist luminary by being a suffragette and the inamorata of the original liberal fascist, H.G. Wells. She published BLGF in 1941.

BLGF is full of overblown prose, distorted history, and nationalist stereotypes. She swallows and spits out the absurd Serb line that they should rule Kosovo because they LOST a battle there 600 YEARS AGO. Her Serbs are noble, Croats are treacherous, and Albanians are like the darkies on her plantation, always laughing and singing like little children.

If you want a much better book on Kosovo, read “Kosovo, a Short History,” by Noel Malcolm.

U.S. lost soft power against us, Serbs after Kosovo UDI and recognition by U.S. There is only the brute force left now.

No, I won’t. I’ll just permit myself to remind you that in your article you called on me, specifically, to check your translation. I obliged, and found it inaccurate. I wasn’t asked to edit the translation from pov of stylistically better English – and if I was, I wouldn’t take on the task.

You understood the meaning more or less correct – but for a formal translation, “less” is not acceptable.
Sorry.

I left Yugoslavia in 1991 with exactly the same impression that O’Rourke left it in 1992 or 3. If the Serbs want US sympathy, they should have attempted to constuct a peace there before foreign militaries got involved. The are reaping the whirlwind of 1993, and I will not cry for them that they have lost control of a lot of territory that should have been theirs if they had reigned in the Chetniks and acted like civilized people. Serb “Christianity” cuts no ice with me.

I’m pretty anti-Muslim as a culture, but the US can not fight the entire Muslim world at once. The Stans retreated from US involvement not to gather under the green flag, but at the urging of Russia and China, who are all too eager to support regimes such as Saddam’s. Pakistan will go South in the next decade, and reality dictates that the US keep the Stans and Egypt out of the coming conflict.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/weekinreview/02bowley.html?_r=1&ref=weekinreview&oref=slogin

It should be

The representatives of the Kosovo Serbs numerous times voiced their opposition to the presence of new EU mission to the region. Belgrade is of the same opinion. Disregarding these protests, last Saturday the EU gave the green light to the deployment of EULEX. It will consist of nearly 2000 members, including 1500 police officers. The deployment of the mission was approved by the leaders of the EU last December. Currently, both a humanitarian mission from the UN (UNMIK) and the KFOR peacekeepers are operating in Kosovo.

The difference: this is not an addition to the EU mission, it is the mission. There are no NE members, 2000 troups is the size of the mission. Etc.

“Представители косовских сербов неоднократно высказывались против присутствия новой миссии европейцев в крае. Такого же мнения придерживается и Белград. Несмотря на эти возражения, Евросоюз в минувшую субботу дал зеленый свет развертыванию EULEX. В нее войдут около 2 тыс. человек, в том числе 1500 полицейских. В декабре прошлого года отправку миссии одобрили лидеры ЕС. Сейчас в Косове присутствуют гражданская миссия ООН (UNMIK) и силы миротворцев KFOR.

The representatives of the Kosovo Serbs numerous times voiced their opposition to the presence of new EU mission to the region. Belgrade is of the same opinion. Disregarding these protests, last Saturday the EU gave the green light to the creation of EULEX. It will consist of nearly 2000 new members, including 1500 police officers. The deployment of the mission was approved by the leaders of the EU last December. Currently, both a humanitarian mission from the UN (UNMIK) and the KFOR peacekeepers are operating in Kosovo.

It translates the meaning of the statement closely, not your interpretation of what they are saying.

Same goes on with other translations, I don’t want to take up space and go into more technicalities.

My own position here: I’m not so much pro-Serbian as anti-Muslim. Any country willing to fight the plague is my ally. Especially if they are doing it on their own territory and defending their own women and children in the process – they have all the moral right on their side.

You noticed that Muslims in Stans, as you call them, build their foreign policy and their alliances orienting themselves with other Muslim states, ethnicity not-withstanding. They are creating a united front, they are united under their green flag – against us. or sure, they have their oqn squabbles and their own territorial disputes – but that only comes into play when we are not much of a danger. And we losing time, shooting our own and draping ourselves into high-moral togas and call our former allies (remember Tito?) shits.

Somewhere down in his posts there are threats plans of acquiring parts of Macedonia (which he says, the cowardly Macedonians are offering to their Muslim overlords themselves, without even attempt of fighting), etc etc.

Still proud of yourself?

I think during recent Balkan war US has shown itself as an unreliable ally – to fellow Christians, as an appeasing weakling – to expansion-seeking Muslims, and generally shoot itself in the foot.
As to Stans paying attention to pro-Slavist Russia: at least Russian policy in this regard is centuries-old -consistent. Stans, and Turkey and Persia before them knew all along that Russia will support Slavic population everywhere, under any circumstances. Europeans played a joke against Russia with their support of Albanians (because that’s who we are talking about when you say “Kosovo”; real Kosovars are Serbs; Kosovo is their historical and native land)
– but the ones who laughs are Muslims. And when you say “Yugoslavia is a mess” maybe you should realize that it’s better not get yourself involved into a mess you don’t know the starts or ends of.

The foreign policy of Bush’s second term under C. Rice has been a catastrophe as far as I’m concerned.

In my view, the war we’re in is best defined by “Islamists with the goal of establishing a Caliphate and spreading Sharia law vs. the rest of the world”

Under that definition, we’re losing on just about every front.

Recognizing Kosovo only bolsters our enemy’s cause, not to mention antagonize Russia when there is no reason to.

The fact that our State Dept is advocating position after position that bolsters the Jihadis says to me that they have no more understanding about our enemies than they did on 10 Sept 2001.

Its very disturbing.