August Editorial: Kosovo: Told You So!



Kosovo:

Told You So!


Copyright © by Deborah Lagarde. All rights reserved.



In April of this year I wrote an article called "Protesting the War in Kosovo: It'll take Body Bags--Lot's of 'Em!"

Well, we only had one protest march to D.C., sans body bags. Well, I'm glad we didn't have many body bags. So, though nobody who writes commentary ever wants to admit it, I was wrong about the body bags.

But I was right about lots of other things! Especially in saying what the KLA thugs would do when the Serb forces were kicked out. That mainstay of Albanian culture--blood fued. Or, you could say, that mainstay of Mafia culture--vendetta.


Naturally, when one side wins a war it can be expected to rampage the remnants of the enemy, even if we are talking about civilians here. You know, that ten percent of Kosovo that is ethnic Serbian.

But can we expect NATO to back this murder-rape-extortion spree by a group it has said all along is connected to organized crime and drug trafficking? Or at least look the other way when it happens? I mean, how often even in the controlled media have we seen or heard about--one or two blocks from K-For or NATO headquarters--atrocities to Serb inhabitants of Pristina by KLAers?

This brings up a few questions: