The Balkans which resemble nothing so much as a sack full of unintroduced cats with their tails tied together are a whole different piece of work. And right at the heart of the Rubic's Cube of this ethnic swamp fester Serbia and Kosovo. For anything to work in the Balkans as a whole, it has to work first and foremost in the old Yugoslavia which means Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovinia and Croatia, Montenegro and Macedonia. And those are just a few of the clawing, biting, spitting, hissing cats in the sack that Clinton and Blair have so recklessly chosen to adopt and tame. Any child with a pail and scoop who has been to the beach could have warned those two.
Sand castles look beautiful until the tide comes in.
Sand castles are precisely what Clinton and Blair, with the rest of NATO tagging along behind them, are proposing to construct in the oozing sand of the Balkans. There is no way they can breeze in from outside and create any lasting structures atop the quicksand they have chosen to romp in. Well, nature is even more relentless in the Balkans, and has been making its insistent point for centuries. No one yet, including the awesome armies of the Nazis, has been able to separate those cats in the sack, let alone litter-box train them. This game in the Balkans that Clinton and Blair are playing at and for which Americans mostly are paying won't work.