What a bizarre situation. Evidence of Islamic violence and intolerance in Kosovo – and in the Balkans in general – is almost completely ignored, since acknowledging it would challenge the cozy myth of successful U.S./NATO “humanitarian intervention” and limit its application to future adventures. (Even the Serbian government, under total management from Washington and Brussels – and reconciling it...

The topic today is bringing long-term stability and peace to the Balkans, by which we primarily mean the bloody breakup of former Yugoslavia. It is a region that figured prominently in the news in the 1990s but which most Americans have been happy to forget ever since. Forgetting is not always bad. Sometime to move forward on a productive basis, we need to stop reopening old wounds and ...

More than a hundred nations supporting the Syrian opposition have urged tougher action by the UN against President Bashar al Assad. At a meeting in Paris, the US and its allies called for Chapter 7 of the UN Charter to be enacted, allowing economic sanctions, and if necessary, military intervention in Syria. And as Gayane Chichakyan explains, the West's backing of the Syrian rebels has echoes of a...

America’s U.N. ambassador pronounced herself “disgusted” by the Russian-Chinese double veto of a western-sponsored Security Council resolution to facilitate armed intervention in Syria. Particular venom has been aimed againstRussia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Effused one commentator, “Putin has sent a message to his own people: He . . . supports using violence and murder to help tyrants maint...

A Google English-language search of “Arab Spring” and “Putin” yields almost seven million hits. A large proportion of them originate in the hopes of American officials, think tanks, and NGOs that the supposedly “democratic” movement boiling through the Arab world will soon reach Russia. Notable was the Tweet by a Republican Senator known for his anti-Russian views and hostility towards curre...