George Will is a USA government Minister of miss information.
The spark George refers to was an excuse and a well planned one at that, not a spark. The Moscow weapons company, then operating under the Czar, wanted: free access through the Bosporus straits and Constantinople; France wanted Alsace-Lorraine; both wanted a European war to achieve their goals; and they got one. Moscows, precursor to the KGB, armed and assisted in whipping up a nationalistic fervor in Serbia against Austria. Franz Ferdinand was caught in the Turkey shoot on June 28, 1914; France and Russia rushed to war almost before the dust settled and Russia was mobilized and moving by July 24 before Serbia responded to the Austrian ultimatum. Bosnia and Herzegovina had been annexed by Austria in 1908 because Russia encouraged Austria to annex them, while at the same time Russia was telling Serbia how bad the annexation was and that Serbia better stand up to Austria.
Ethnic nationalism predated the Great War by a generation.
So Why does the Government Minister of miss information, George Will, go on to tell us about nationalism and self determination after the war?
We must assume this is the governments way of telling us about a coming war.
Source material: C J H Hayes: A brief History of the Great War 1920
A F Pollard: A Short History of The Great War 1917. J S Bassett our War With Germany 1919.
No, the USA should not take actions that result in the implementation of a Sharia terrorist government; in Kosovo, the West Bank, Gaza, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon, et al. A representative government is fine provided the people of the area want one; not fine at the point of a gun. Kosovo is a Sharia terrorist government today: bad policy. The Hamas independent government in Gaza is a Sharia terrorist government; likewise West Bank; likewise Lebanon if Hizbully gets it, Likewise Iran since Jimmy brought the Ayatollah, watch out or you get one in Pakistan; et al
It is never the moral high ground to assist in imposing a Sharia terrorist government on people that always includes: honor killing, hanging gays, women as chattel: virtual slaves, legal to murder & rape & pillage non -Muslims; that is the moral low ground. Yes, these throwbacks to the seventh century should be confronted or you get a burqa, will bow to Mecca or be killed.
Why Will George not write about Condoleezza Rice and the Oil Supertanker with her name on it; OK they erased her name so she could go in politics;
Islam is at war with The West because Islam can not survive a free market, free speech to criticize Islam world, representative Republic.
The governments of the world led by the USA and Russia and international law, have defined a set of war rule parameters that guarantee no war can be won by good guys and that guarantee nice long lasting wars with lots of weapons sales.
Intelligence analyst: Getzel
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Kosovo’s Dark Meaning
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The current Serbian regime is not as nationalistic as its opposition is. But, Eagleburger says, Serbians generally "are not known for their nuanced view of life." If—when—the Kosovo majority behaves, in the Balkan tradition, beastly toward the minority in its midst, expect trouble.
Ethnic disaggregation in the name of "self-determination" must alarm Spain, which has separatist Basques. Greece, with assertive Albanians in its northern region, and Macedonia (another fragment of Yugoslavia), with a restive Albanian minority, cannot be pleased that Albanians in Kosovo have succeeded in making self-determination a synonym for independence. That concept could someday have interesting implications for southern Texas.
In a New York Times op-ed, Vuk Jeremic, Serbia's foreign minister, was too polite to dwell on the fact that the United States, which promptly recognized Kosovo's independence, has not always been so tolerant of the principle of secession. Jeremic noted that "the forced partition of internationally recognized, sovereign states" is an odd undertaking for the United Nations, particularly given that the 1999 Security Council resolution endorsed nothing more than "substantial autonomy and self-government" for Kosovo. Jeremic predicts that only about 40 of the almost 200 members of the United Nations will recognize Kosovo's independence.
When the Balkans boiled over in the 1990s, Europeans said: We'll handle it. They couldn't, or wouldn't. NATO, meaning primarily the United States, did. Today, Europeans, vociferously unhappy about U.S. "hyperpower," want a less assertive America. Good. Most Americans, recoiling from a few Americans' enthusiasm for their country's being the world's "benevolent hegemon," are in no mood to police Europe's backyard. The next Balkan crisis will be a European problem.
Surely there will be a next crisis. What Pat Moynihan called "the liberal expectancy" was that ethnic attachments and religious animosities were diminishing echoes of mankind's infancy and would be steadily drained of their saliency as definers of national identities. The liberal expectancy is, like Yugoslavia, defunct.
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