ABOUT KOSOVO

Ed Morrissey at his Captain's Quarters blog comments on Richard Holbrook's opinion piece he wrote for the Washington Post where he (and this should come to no surprise to anyone) blamed President Bush for the current turmoil in Kosovo.

The good captain summarizes nicely:

Kosovo and the Balkans aren't our responsibility, diplomatically or in terms of national interest. The UN took over the Kosovo mission in 1999 -- not NATO, which did the initial fighting -- and the UN has remained stuck on stupid ever since. Russia blocks any attempt to recognize Kosovo's independence. This old story at Turtle Bay demonstrates the complete ineptitude of the UN when it comes to political pursuits.