BALKAN BRAWL
Correspondence BALKAN BRAWL IN HIS ARTICLE “Recognition Without Power” (March 31 / April 7), Stephen Schwartz joins the rest of the media in the collective international lynching of the...
...While Orthodox churches have been burned or destroyed, the Saudis have been subsidizing the construction of mosques that display the Saudi fl ag...
...Among the unpleasant facts that Schwartz omits from his analysis is the infamous March 2004 pogrom that was directed against the Serbs in Kosovo...
...Despite all this, the international hatred of Serbia continues unabated because the Serbs refuse to surrender and accept the role of obedient slave that the “international community” would assign them...
...and KFOR protection...
...While a tiny number of signifi cant Serbian Orthodox churches were damaged in the aftermath of the war, nearly half of the mosques in Kosovo were leveled to the ground by Serbian terrorists in the prewar period...
...Some Serbs fl ed from the now-independent republic at the end of the 1998-99 war, but, as the whole world can see from television news, Serb enclaves are maintained in Kosovo, some under U.N...
...REMEMBERING BUCKLEY TERRY EASTLAND’s remembrance of his friend William F. Buckley Jr...
...The corruption of the foreign policies of the West can be seen by the silence that has greeted the horrifi c treatment of Serbs since 1999...
...Let the advocates of an independent Kosovo give up their own territories to set an example for the Serbs...
...BOB MYERS Doylestown, Pa...
...In most other countries, international sanctions would greet any kind of governing body that treated minority groups in the vile manner in which Serbs are being treated...
...military participated have presided over a nine-year expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo, systematic destruction of historic Orthodox churches, and widespread Saudi-fi nanced construction of mosques in Kosovo are lies invented by Serbian extremists...
...no more than a handful of Gulf-fi nanced mosques have been built in Kosovo...
...Russophobia, and a disguised animosity toward Eastern Orthodoxy, go hand in hand with the venom directed against the Serbs...
...THE WEEKLY STANDARD welcomes letters to the editor...
...The Russians were blocked from placing peacekeeping troops in Kosovo in 1999, and the result has been the near eradication of Serbian culture from Kosovo...
...The unrelenting bullying and demonization of Serbia is the end product of a foreign policy based on political correctness that is led by a president and secretary of state who are quite ignorant of their history...
...Letters will be edited for length and clarity and must include the writer’s name, address, and phone number...
...Schwartz also fails to mention Turkey’s support for Kosovo’s independence that signifi es the growing re-Ottomanization of the Balkan peninsula...
...Serbia’s Orthodox Christian neighbor, Bulgaria, has also recognized Kosovo, in an indication of sanity and maturity that other countries in the region would be advised to follow...
...In such circumstances it is hardly surprising that a limited retaliation took place...
...I regret the unintentional omission of the Turkish, as well as Albanian, recognition of Kosovo from my article...
...STEPHEN SCHWARTZ RESPONDS: The claims that the United Nations and the Kosovo Forces in which the U.S...
...For the past nine years, over 100,000 Serbs have been ethnically cleansed in Kosovo as a result of the campaign of terror that has occurred under the noses of UNMIK, KFOR, and the other observers...
...THEODOROS KARAKOSTAS Boston, Mass...
...Albanian Muslims are well-known for placing their national fl ag on mosques...
...I once heard a Christian pastor say that greatness is not measured by the number of your friends, but the number that you befriended...
...Eastland’s recollection that Buckley took such great interest in a young writer “toiling in the newspaper equivalent of low-A ball” conveyed something that those who never had the privilege of meeting Buckley simply sensed about the man...
...The allegation that Kosovo mosques display Saudi fl ags could only be made by someone who has not set foot in the republic...
...As for Russophobia and the rest of the recitation of Serbian propaganda provided by Karakostas, the simple facts are that the whole world witnessed the attempted Serbian genocide of the Kosovar Albanians, and the United States and the democratic Western powers made their judgment to support the rights of the Albanians as the historic residents in the territory...
...Schwartz seeks to minimize the role that radical Islam has played in Kosovo...
...By that standard—and many others— Buckley’s was a life well lived...
...That decision will not be reversed by tantrums from Serbs or their sympathizers...
...Correspondence BALKAN BRAWL IN HIS ARTICLE “Recognition Without Power” (March 31 / April 7), Stephen Schwartz joins the rest of the media in the collective international lynching of the Serbian people...
...The charge that the Saudis have fi nanced numerous Kosovo mosques is false...
...The Gift of Friendship,” March 10) beautifully depicts Buckley’s graciousness...
...All letters should be addressed: Correspondence Editor THE WEEKLY STANDARD 1150 17th St., NW, Suite 505 Washington, DC 20036 You may also fax letters: (202) 293-4901 or email: editor@weeklystandard.com...
...Over 150 Orthodox churches of immense spiritual and historic value have been systematically destroyed...
Vol. 13 • April 2008 • No. 29
