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The Corner - End The Occupation — Now, by John Hood

Remember when the world-wise, honest, well-meaning Europeans used prudent, multilateral diplomacy rather than American-style brute force to resolve that pesky little Kosovo problem? Apparently, it didn’t take:

New talks between ethnic Albanians and Serbia are likely to fail, the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank, said in a report, adding that the EU’s failure to form a common position on Kosovo’s independence would have “very disturbing consequences for Europe.”

“If it is incapable once again, it would almost certainly lead to bloodshed and renewed regional chaos that would blow back into Central and Western Europe in the form of refugees and stronger organized crime networks,” said Sabine Freizer of ICG.

Kosovo has been under United Nations and NATO control since 1999 after NATO’s 78-day air war against Yugoslavia, waged to stop a crackdown on the province’s separatist ethnic Albanians.

The NATO occupation of Kosovo has lasted for more than eight years — nearly twice as long as World War I. How much longer will we allow such madness to continue? Isn’t it obvious that those people just want to kill each other, and there’s nothing to be done about it? Outsiders are just making things worse. It’s time to bring the occupation forces home.

Bleh.