Support For Kosovar Independence Aids Our Enemies.

For the past several weeks the news in America has been dominated by the upcoming presidential race. A grievous misstep by our government is occurring now and it is getting little attention. This mistake is blatantly harmful to American interests as well as unjust.

The United States has been supporting the Kosovar Albanians ever since the NATO invasion and occupation of Serbian Kosovo in 1999 which was meant to stop genocidal campaigns committed against the Albanians by Serbs. The Kosovar Albanians recently declared independence and the United States was one of the first to recognize and support their independence. In fact they never would have been able to pull independence off unless we were to recognize them.

The United States is wrong to support the Kosovo. First, it is documented that Al-Qaeda and other radical Islamic groups have supported the Kosovar Albanians, with both money and troop. If Kosovar independence is in Al-Qaeda’s interest what makes us think that it is in ours? It makes no sense that the United States is aiding the terrorist enemy.

Second, our position has been that Kosovo should be independent because of the Serbian atrocities committed upon the Kosovar Albanians. The Albanian however did the same thing to the Serbs during World War II, and the Serbs did the same thing again to the Albanians in 1870, and the list goes on and on. Why are we making the decision for them? It is near impossible to argue that it is a necessity to U.S. national interest to be the judge in a feud which we know nothing about and have no initial stake in.

Why are we aiding the Kosovar Albanians? They have been wronged by the Serbs this is true, but the Ukrainians have been wronged by the Russians, and the Hutus killed the Tutsis and we haven’t intervened. We need more precise means of judging what conflicts we should and shouldn’t be involved in and generally, our own self interest should figure into our decisions rather prominently, along with the general welfare of others.

Added to this, our foreign policy for the past decade and a half has been aimed at aiding Muslim nations. There was or liberation of Kuwait, our involvement in Somalia, and Bosnia, even our chiding of Russia when they cracked down on Chechen separatists. One can even trace American attempts at garnering Arab good will all the way towards the Suez crisis where we stopped our close allies from invading an Arab country and subsequently forcing the. to decolonize. If this has been done with the intention of cultivating good will from the Muslim people, it has failed miserably.

Kosovo is the equivalent of a Serbian Jerusalem. For Serbia, imagining their country without Kosovo would be like imagining an England without London. We are inadvertently aiding Islamist forces and harming our own Westerners.