Introduction

Vukovar, Eastern Slavonia—July 1998

What started in Vukovar in 1991 did not end in Kosovo. Some would say that someday it will all ...end. It will all end in the Balkans, the bloody, bloody Balkans ...despite confidences in interims of enforced“peace.”

But the“domino theory” in the Balkans still has a long way to go. And the“domino theory” was always the correct theory, the predictable theory, and the only reliable theory to cover up a catastrophic sequence of American and European foreign policy blunders.

When Kosovo re-ignites, the long-awaited tumult could spread to the adjacent Sandjak region, a heavily Muslim area in southwestern Serbia. Would Bosnia explode again? The answer towhen Bosnia will erupt is probably a generation away—but maybe sooner. Warnings of earlier resumptions of fratricidal chaos accompany fears that American troops under NATO would be involved. Then, Macedonia erupts at some point, and that spillover inflames the jittery Greeks. American troops initially forayed into Macedonia long before the start of KFOR occupation of Kosovo in 1999, when the U.S. government refused to say how many body bags accompanied the“peacekeepers” into the Balkans.

And, if Greece, then Bulgaria and Turkey? Maybe Vojvodina in northern Serbia will destruct, too. And, who knows when Croatia would implode again?

Strange names of strange places, most of these.

Part of the New World Disorder in which the United States is perfecting its most devastating genocidal weapon to date against any sovereign upstart that defies its globaldiktat. The Serbian model began with economic sanctions, then political and social dismemberment and, ultimately, military attack and occupation.

Such is the fate of the former Yugoslavia. And, in 1998, the falling domino was Kosovo. And, the politicians and“war reporters” never could or would get the names and numbers right. Forget sorting out the names. Kosovo-Serbs? Muslim-Kosovars? Even after a blood-soaked decade, the journalists couldn’t get it right. Why?

For instance, a reporter forReuters who covered the Yugoslav wars for several years wrote about a man named“Zarko Spasic” who disappeared near the village of Sipovac in Kosovo,1 one of two“autonomous provinces” in Serbia. Finally, in the eleventh paragraph of the report, readers could figure out that Zarko Spasic was a Serb who was kidnapped and murdered by Alb