More on the Kosovo blowback; another example of how our policies enable those who already hate us, contrary to what Ron Paul says. From Front Page Magazine:

On cue, within minutes of news that four Albanians were involved in a plot to attack American soldiers in New Jersey, we were treated to the familiar disclaimers of Albanian pro-Americanism, meant to keep us on program — lest the American people finally demand a reevaluation of our self-destructive 1990s alliances which still dictate current policy.

“3 Brothers implicated in Fort Dix plot had roots in fiercely pro-U.S. region,” rang out an International Herald Tribune headline of a widely printed AP story:

Three Muslim brothers who allegedly helped plot to kill soldiers at a U.S. Army base have roots in one of Europe’s most pro-American corners — a region that remains grateful to the United States for ending the Kosovo war.
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Albania was among the first countries to answer Washington’s call for troops to help support U.S.-led military offensives in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Pristina, the capital of Kosovo…U.S. flags are commonplace...

A Washington Post article began: “They hail from one of the most pro-American and secular parts of the Muslim world — the ethnic Albanian regions of Macedonia, where gratitude for U.S. assistance in Kosovo during the 1990s still runs high.” The same week, an Albanian-Canadian broadcaster assured Canucks, “No one loves Americans more than Albanians do” -- something that one Albanian spokesman after another repeats.

Albanians are the most pro-American people in the world! everyone proclaims as Albanians burn churches, kill nuns and behead monks in Kosovo, the “most pro-American state-in-progress.” Ah yes, this is who loves America. A dubious endorsement indeed. Everywhere else, we are hated for trying to beat back jihad. In Kosovo, Albania and the Albanian Diaspora, they love us for enabling it. Any time you help Muslims kill Christians, just like any time you help one nationality clean out its ethnic rival, it’ll thank you. For a little while.

Don’t be fooled. Albanian love is conditional. And it’s waning fast.
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When good will is acquired by doing someone’s bidding, pro-Americanism is won for the wrong reasons, and the gratitude will turn the moment we stop furthering that party’s agenda. In Kosovo, it began happening as early as 2000, when the Kosovars started calling for the UN and NATO “occupiers” to get out.
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Kosovo is the most heavily-policed, militarily-occupied region in Europe. It does not now and has never had a ‘fundamentalist minority’ in the sense the term is now understood, and no serious evidence to the contrary can be produced.
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Between the plan to kill American soldiers in New Jersey and the Bosnian jihadist in Utah earlier this year — police still don’t have a motive, which usually means it’s jihad — the reevaluation of our Balkan policies almost began. (The Kosovo and Bosnia connections to the Madrid and London bombings apparently weren’t enough). But the reevaluation and the turning of the Kosovo independence tide that it could bring threaten to once again recede into oblivion, as Americans are coaxed into accepting the ubiquitous explanation that the Ft. Dix four were an exception, a fluke, an aberration, and that the genesis of their act has nothing to do with Albanianism, but with a scourge that Albanians, like everyone else, suffer from and are averse to: militant Islam.

“Few ethnic Albanians embrace militant Islam,” assured the aforementioned AP report. “Most are moderate or secular.”

That line, present in every news item about Albanian or Bosnian Muslims for the past decade, has been repeated ad nauseum by the many Albanians interviewed for various follow-up articles to the Ft. Dix story, with many insisting that this kind of religiousness is “not Albanian.” But when you cast your lot with the radicals who help your land grab, when you accept help from them and align your early goals with theirs, do you really think they won’t come to collect?

When the architects of our Kosovo war continually boast that not a single American life was lost in their “successful” war, the appropriate response is “Not yet.” The Albanian strategy in Kosovo in fact has been a replay of the Oslo accords: Accept Western/infidel help for as long as it furthers your territorial ambitions; then, once the great powers are no longer willing to carry you to the next stage, revert to “traditional” methods and take up arms against them. This has been the modus operandi of Islamic conquest for the past several decades. So either we’re looking at a striking confluence of methodology between Islam and “Albanianism” -- which is strongly bound by nationalist and clan loyalties -- or its’ no coincidence at all.
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In addition to the intermittent threats to go to war against NATO (which is in addition to actually shooting at peacekeepers since 2001), it turns out that both KLA and its mujahideen accomplices were fighting Americans at the same time that Americans were fighting the Serbs for them. As one American peacekeeper who was deployed to the area admitted last week in an article meant to defend Albanians, “One of our central missions was to protect ancient Christian churches that the Mujahideen were blowing up. Our area experienced the occasional IED and drive by shooting almost never aimed at US forces.”

This would help explain how an Albanian applicant to al Qaeda could claim, “I have Kosovo Liberation Army combat experience against Serb and American forces. I need no further training. I recommend (suicide) operations against (amusement) parks like Disney.” (Emphasis added.)

And, writes Serbianna.com’s Mickey Bozinovich:

[The] recent beating of an American peacekeeper by local Albanian Muslims illustrates the fragility of the American military position in that province if Muslim Albanian drug interests are threatened: an unnamed American soldier was found off duty at a gas station and beaten silly by Muslim Albanians because his unit took part in foiling an unidentified illegal plot.

During a February mission to Brussels, after getting the usual empty assurances of protections for Kosovo’s non-Albanian minority, American Council for Kosovo Director Jim Jatras asked a Hungarian member of the European Parliament, “Isn’t all this talk of protections for Serbs a tacit admission that among the Kosovo Albanians are a lot of violent and intolerant people? Why would you reward their violence with state power?”

Looking Jatras in the eye, the parliamentarian replied, “Because we’re afraid of them.”

Afraid ... of pro-American people?
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Then there are always pro-American acts of omission. While we see more and more reports of terrorism being plotted against the U.S. from the “unlikely” Balkan quarters of Kosovo, Bosnia and Albania, there seems to be a lack of anti-U.S. Serb terror in the works. Except, of course, in the movies and TV shows we write about them.

But no, we preferred, and prefer, to cast our lot with the Balkans’ most primitive elements — sacrificing friends to make friends of our enemies. Men who severed Christian heads, killed federal employees who were Albanian for “collaborating”, and violently purged their own ranks are the “statesmen” whom Condoleezza Rice and Nicholas Burns meet with regularly, the men we’ve set up as the legitimate rulers of an ethnically pure pro-American Kosovo, and who were honored guests at the 2004 Democratic Convention.

Rather than rule of law, religious freedom, ethnic diversity, equal justice and civil rights, Kosovo is governed by lawless, tribalistic, blood-code-following, clan-oriented mob justice. While reports out of Serbia concern debates in public schools over Evolution versus Intelligent Design theory — similar to our own — a typical report out of Kosovo concerned a debate over whether to kill the KFOR (NATO) mascot because the dog was Serbian.
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Among Albanians, Bosnians, Croats and Serbs — even with all the documented and imagined crimes attributed to the Serbs — the Serbs were the Balkans’ most civilized element. Add up Serb crimes, multiply them by 10, and they’re still not as scary as the people they were fighting. (Or do we need to get into the skull-crushing, eye-gouging, bloody-knife-licking, using the “Serb-cutter”, raping-and-burning, neck-sawing, beheading and disemboweling that Bosnians, Croats and Albanians engaged in?) So now ask why Serbs were so hated by those they were fighting. And ask why KLA targeted Americans and Serbs together.

Before you accept Albanian pro-Americanism, you must first ask what made Albanians anti-Serb. Then you must look at photos of what the KLA did to its enemies, so that when you’re exchanging niceties and recipes with your Albanian neighbors, keep in mind that, by and large, the KLA terrorists remain their national heroes.