A New Gaza For Europe

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7246505.stm

'Kosovo may declare independence this weekend, and the US and most EU states are expected to recognise it quickly.'

...because of course you want to piss off the Russians at the precise moment you really need their help against Iran, and they're in a tetchy and unreasonable mood anyway. It just makes sense. After all, creating a new Gaza strip in the middle of eastern Europe makes sense in the way that clubbing yourself on the head with a mallet makes sense. And if the US and Britain think that they will get credit from the foaming-mouthed muslim hordes for giving the Kosovo muslims their own little country, I give you the example of Spain. What credit have they got for removing their crap little army from Iraq? Nil point.

They recently rounded up a gang who were going for a repeat of the Atocha spectacular, but in Barcelona.

I get the distinct impression that the whole western world is giving itself a group hug over this Kosovo 'independence' because it pushes all the right buttons of the internationalist/fantasist mainstream press. It gets governments who have been buffeted for years for being decisive in Iraq and Afghanistan some kind and plauditry headlines. It makes absolutely no sense from a geo-strategic point of view, and it opens the door for 50,000 minority groups to claim that they should have their own countries, but it does mean that western politicians get to feel good about themselves for a few minutes.

Yay.