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NATO chief: Election outcome won't affect US policy on Kosovo
Nov 4, 2008, 19:21 GMT
Pristina - The United States will continue to take part in the international peacekeeping mission in Kosovo regardless of the outcome of its presidential election, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Tuesday.
'Regardless who the winner of the elections will be, I don't expect any change regarding United States policy towards Afghanistan and Kosovo,' he said in Pristina after meeting with Kosovo officials.
He added that NATO will serve as a guarantee of Kosovo's security and that it will help to building civil control of Kosovo security forces and its defence ministry.
De Hoop Scheffer arrived for a brief visit to Kosovo, a day before the arrival of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband for a first visit by a representative of a major Western power since Kosovo declared independence in February.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia after years of international supervision. International forces remain in Kosovo for time being to preserve peace between the Albanian majority and Serbian minority.
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Hopefully, the midguided US Foreign Policy of the past decades will end: a penchant for military adventures worldwide and intervention in internal affairs of other sovereign nations. As for Kosovo, the challenge will be for obama to omit inclusion in his advisors such 'neocons' and 'Clintonistas' for whom such actions have been their career stepstones in the past. I specifically refer to Albright, Clarke, Holbrooke, Walker and their ilk for whom maintaining the myth of humanitarianism as their guideline ignores the realities of hard facts, not the drive-by journalism such as the Holiday Inn propaganda incestuously produced regarding the Racak and market massacres in former Yugoslavia.
This article reflects cluesness of the media. Kosovo problem is part and parcel of a weird two-step EU-US dance in a openly menacing attempt at encircling Russia. But the success of isolating USSR is not working today. Russia has no ideologically based foreign policy, and is getting increasingly integrated into the global economic fabric.
Kosovo reflects the European centuries-long push to dominate Balkans, successfully portrayed as 'America made us do it'. US European foreign policy from Clinton to Bush has been very misguided. The fact is, 'clintonistas' and 'neocons' are chips of the same block, and their huge failure was and is to fall into the European trap.
New Mexico's Governor Bill Richardson last night summarized best the incoming Administration's foreign policy mantra: seek the mutually beneficial solutions in dealing with other countries. At present, the Euro navel-gazing of 'clintonistas' and 'neocons', is ideological and not pragmatic. Pragamatic solution to Kosovo would involve solutions to the mutual benefit of US and Russia. European security needs, like Russia's need to be on the table. And without Europe taking US to cleaners.
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MiltonNov 5th, 2008 - 05:21:11
Of course there will be no change. The whole Kosovo saga was a step in the direction of encircling Russia. Serbia knows it, Russia know it and the US damn well knows it. There will be no change in foreign policy. US will be in Kosovo for a long time and will end up being bankrupt for your efforts.
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