Score another one for Clinton U.S. foreign policy:
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Scores of protesters broke into the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Thursday and set some rooms on fire in protest at Kosovo’s independence.
Police were not protecting the building which had been closed and boarded up after rioters stoned it earlier in the week. Black smoke billowed out of the embassy.
Papers and chairs were thrown out of the windows, with doors wedged in the window frames and burning.
One protester climbed up to the first floor of the building, ripped the Stars and Stripes off its pole and briefly put up a Serbian flat in its place.
Some protesters jumped up and down on the embassy balcony, holding up a Serbian flag as the crowd below of about 1,000 people cheered them on, shouting “Serbia, Serbia”.
The storming of the building came during a state-backed rally to protest at Kosovo’s secession on Sunday attended by some 200,000 people, which was otherwise peaceful.
Despite my misgivings about the Kosovo War, I was proud to help make replacement (reverse engineered) computer chips for our F-15 radars that prevented us from having any casualties during the airwar. Yet, it looks like the war has left us with a bad case of indigestion, just like nearly every other military intervention we’ve made since the end of World War II. Right now I am having bad flashbacks to earlier administrations, when stormed embassies were kind of common.
