[A-List] Commentary: EU's Repeat Of Munich Betrayal To Open Pandora's Box

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Subject: [stopnato] Commentary: EU's Repeat Of Munich Betrayal To Open 
Pandora's Box


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Czech Business Weekly
January 7, 2008

Historical parallels show EU's Kosovo policy is insane
By: Jiøí Hanák

-[T]he KLA, supposedly the Kosovo Albanians'
liberation army, was as recently as 1998 listed on the
U.S.'s list of terrorist organizations.
Only thanks to the magic wand of the U.S. State
Department, then headed by Madeleine Albright, did the
terrorists and narco-barons change into respectable
freedom fighters.

The new year begins under the sign of the infamy that
the U.S. and the European Union are committing against
Serbia by supporting independence for the Serbian
province of Kosovo.

In this context, I cannot help but reach for a
historical comparison.

When, in October 1938, British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain defended the Munich Agreement with Hitler
as offering "peace in our time", Winston Churchill
said, "The nation had to choose between shame and war.
We have chosen shame. We shall get the war as well."
To paraphrase - Washington and the EU have chosen
between a restless Balkans and dishonesty. They have
chosen dishonesty and will have troubles with more
than the Balkans.

But let us leave Serbia aside, injured and demeaned as
it is.

In its current state of mind, it is imaginable that
Serbia will turn its back on the EU and the West and
will seek a safe harbor in Moscow.

The idea that Serbia may permit Russia to establish a
base on its territory is not as fantastic as it may
seem. Desperate states do desperate things.

When discussing Kosovo's independence, we cannot apply
a nation's right to self-determination.

The Albanian nation already has its state.

The Kosovo Albanians are thus merely a minority in
Serbia, as the Czech Germans were in pre-war
Czechoslovakia.

But there are further points. If the Euro-Atlantic
alliance grants independence to the Albanians in
Kosovo, will it be able to consistently deny it to
Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia, where they
form a high percentage minority?

And what about Republika Srpska in Bosnia-Herzegovina?
Would it not have the right to disentangle itself from
the (nonfunctioning) Bosnian double state and declare
its own independence as well?

I am almost certain that an independent Kosovo and an
independent Republika Srpska in Bosnia would fuse with
their "mother" states in the foreseeable future,
resulting in an entirely new map of the region.

These matters are but a trifle, however, compared to
the whole extent of what may come spilling out of the
Pandora's box of Kosovo's independence.

If the Albanian minority in Serbia can become
independent, why not the Hungarian minority in
Slovakia? And in Romania? And what about Chechnya? And
the Turks in Cyprus?

And what about the 40-million strong Kurdish nation,
with its own language and culture?

Only because fate cast them into a cursedly sensitive
area-one by the way that has billions of barrels of
oil?

And look at the icing on the cake: the KLA, supposedly
the Kosovo Albanians' liberation army, was as recently
as 1998 listed on the U.S.'s list of terrorist
organizations.

Only thanks to the magic wand of the U.S. State
Department, then headed by Madeleine Albright, did the
terrorists and narco-barons change into respectable
freedom fighters.

I cannot judge how much a role was played by the charm
of KLA political leader Hashim Thaçi (also known as
"the Snake"). What is certain is the fact that we will
be witnesses to a unique event: With the declaration
of an independent Kosovo, the narco-mafia will gain
its own state.

The states of the EU will probably recognize Kosovo's
independence; only Cyprus is holding out.

In the case of Slovakia or Romania, the approval will
be either hypocritical or suicidal.

For the Czech Republic, it will be a living example of
forgetting one's own history. I am sorry that, as a
convinced backer of the EU, I have to say that in the
case of Kosovo, the EU has apparently gone insane.

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