Kosovo Albanians were also in the news last week, and for the reason many U.S. politicians would rather forget. On May 7, six Kosovo Albanian nationals (euphemistically said to be from "the Former Yugoslavia" by most American media outlets) were arrested in New Jersey in connection with a plot to penetrate Fort Dix and kill as many American soldiers as possible. Just as hypocritically, most of the media failed to mention the reason for which Fort Dix was chosen. It was there, at Fort Dix, that most of the Kosovo Albanian refugees were brought in during the campaign of the 1999. The Clinton administration (indeed, Hillary Clinton herself) on several occasion bragged about "generous American hand" helping poor Kosovars, oppressed by the Serbian savages. Some of the "Fort Dix Six" plotters were once those very same refugees. At least one of them was a fighter in the KLAthe ethnic Albanian guerilla army, firt considered a terrorist organization by the US State Department right up to the eve of the Kosovo war.

This wasn't the first time in recent American history that gratitude was repaid in such a manner. Osama bin Laden was to a large extent the CIA invention for the purpose of fighting Russians in Afghanistan. This pattern persists: again and again the American establishment sought the support of various Islamist factions against Russians or Serbs, their fellow Orthodox Christians. There isn't a single case of the Western establishment ever supporting the Russian point of view in disputes with other post-Soviet nations, and during the Yugoslav wars of the 90sexceedingly brutal on all sidesonly Serbs were vilified.