Hey, guess what? You can’t continue to talk about President Bush’s suspicion of Iran as being unilateral. I told you how the Dutch feel about Iran right now and now we have indications that Germany has a similar view.

  BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday a U.S. intelligence report saying Tehran had stopped an active nuclear weapons program in 2003 was not an excuse to give the Islamic Republic the “all clear”.

I am sure you will come up with something else to extend your vilification  of our President over, but this won’t be it.

My curiosity has been steeping lately about Kosovo, mostly because of writings by Mike Averko, Walid Phares, and others. I have been doing a great deal of reading about the hisotry of the region, and the events which have led us where we are today. My conclusion remains that mandating an independent Kosovo is going to blow up in our faces.  Kosovo is already autonomous and functions as an independent state in most respects.

Germany is a mighty advocate for Kosovo to become an independent stat and to follow in the footsteps of other newly created nations in the region; specifically to join the EU. Germany’s reason for this appears to be based upon a foreign policy decision in 1990 to become a stabilizing force in Europe. Perhaps this is an oversimplification, but you can decide that.

The United States is involved in pushing for Kosovar independence with no clear policy reason. I, and others, assume this stance on Kosovo is related to an attempt to show the Muslim world that the US is not “anti-Muslim”.

Something which strikes me first is how “Four Powers” - ish the entire Kosovo argument has become. Germany, Russia, France, UK, and the United States have exerted their influence in the region to attempt to bring about their individual desired results. However, I don’t detect a great deal of concern for the effects of these foreign policy stances on the inhabitants of the region.

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