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Entry: Mr. bin Laden, Meet Mr. Kennan--A New Containment Policy Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/mr_bin_laden_meet_mr_kennan_a_new_containment_policy#19550 Post contents: Now, Mr. Richert might just reply, "Who said anything about 'Greater Serbia,' Caper, huh? Kosovo is an intgral part of Serbia." Mr. Richert argues that the land has been consecrated by the blood of Christians so it belongs to Serbia, an Orthodox country. This no doubt refers to the Battle of Kosovo of 1389. Most any reader of Chronicles has seen reference to the Battle of Kosovo. It is held forth as a part of Western history that we have flushed down the memory hole. What about the Serbian (-Orthodox) memory hole, however? 1389 was the year of the *First* Battle of Kosovo. The Second Battle of Kosovo came in 1448. The Hungarians and the *Albanians* under the great Christian hero Skanderbeg were to fight the Turks. But then the ruler of *Serbia* cut off Skanderbeg in order to help the Turks. The Moslems stayed in Europe, and conquered Albania, because of a Servian who served (pun!) them quite slavishly. If the Serbs won Kosovo by the deeds of Lazar Hrebeljanovic, why shouldn't they have lost them by the treachery of Durad Brankovic? By the way, the defeat of Janos Hunyadi by the Turks was what sealed the fate of Christian rule in the Balkans, and the Orthodox Serbs took the side of the Mohammedan Turks against the Catholic Hungarians and Eastern-rite Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Albanians. Since the Serbs fought the *Christian* Albanians in order to save the Sultan's skin in the Second Battle of Kosovo, it is ironic justice that today the same Serbs are being forced out of Kosovo by Mohammedan Albanians (*and* some Catholic ones too). Here, it is primarily realist consideration of jihadism in the Balkans that should inspire opposition to Kosovar Albanian independence; as for the Albanian-Serbian national question, the ghost of the Crusader Skanderbeg must be laughing somewhere. Sent at: 2008 09 06