MUST READ: THE MUSLIMS AND THE SERBS ARE IN THE SAME BOAT

The Muslims and the Serbs are in the same boat

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It is certainly true that the US has overestimated its ability to sort out the mess in Iraq. In that respect, it may not be appropriate to compare Iraq to Kosovo or Bosnia. It is acknowledged that the US knew it was playing with fire in the Balkans by siding with the Muslims, and was apparently ready to accept the consequences.

However, if that is the case, why was the US willing to take such a calculated risk? There must have been some apparently valid reason for it, apart from the apparent desire to appease the Muslims of the world. The word appease suggest there is animosity. The US must have had a plan and a purpose when it teamed up with the Muslims in the Balkans. What was it? Why was it willing to turn against the Serbs, who posed no threat to the US?

There are a couple of explanations which may seem rather tenuous when taken separately.

However, when they are taken together, a picture begins to emerge.

1) The US wanted to destroy the Soviet Bloc. Even if Yugoslavia was not part of the Soviet Bloc, it was regarded as one of its last remaining relics, after most of the former Communist countries had been converted to market economy. To what extent Yugoslavia had adopted market economy is obviously beside the point here. In any case, the US applied the same method to destroy Yugoslavia as it had done to destroy the Sovet Union: terrorism. Osama bin Laden’s fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was financed by the Americans.

2) On the other hand, the US wanted to curb the terrorist states. Iran was one of those blacklisted states. That is why the US supported Iraq in the war against Iran. Later Iraq became a problem and the US attacked Iraq. The Muslim countries in general supported the US in its war against Iraq, as unbelievable as it may seem now, but later turned against the US. So obviously something had to be done about them too.

Apparently, the US could have used Yugoslavia to stop Islam in Europe and, conversely, European Islam to stop Yugoslavia. To some extent, that may have been what happened. As the Republican Party concluded in one of its reports in 1997, the Clinton administration supported Iranian terrorism in the Balkans.

However, what about the other part of the deal? What did the US do to use Yugoslavia to stop terrorism? It does not add up. So let us try and see it another way.

First of all, there is a difference between the Serbs and Yugoslavia. The reason the US turned against the Serbs was that they were not as eager to get out of Yugoslavia as others nationalities. Unlike other nationalities, the Serbs were present in large numbers in almost all republics. The reasons for that were historical, though soon the general public was led to believe that the Serbs lived in Bosnia and Kosovo because the Belgrade “regime” had sent them there.

So what did the US have against Yugoslavia, then? If we accept the thesis that the US wanted to bring down Muslims states while using Islamic terrorism to bring down the Communist bloc, then Yugoslavia was a double enemy. The fact that Yugoslavia was not really a Muslim state and not a really communist state does nothing to alleviate the danger it posed to the US, on the contrary.

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