Original article in Townhall Magazine (pdf)

It has been less than 100 years since Ottoman rule was removed from the European landmass, but, due to the actions of both the Clinton and Bush administrations, NATO and the EU, Islamic militants—the neo-Ottomans—are in control of two new European governments. With catastrophic consequences to follow, Western democracies went blindly to war in order to aid militant regimes now installed in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Pristina, Kosovo, regimes allied with Iran, Syria and al Qaeda.

For more than two millennia, the inhabitants of the Balkans have been the subjects of numerous empires. The Romans referred to that area as Illyria and brought the region into their empire toward the end of the third century B.C. In ruling the Illyrians, the Romans demonstrated their genius for rapidly integrating, assimilating and commanding loyalty among their conquered subjects. Illyrians quickly found their way into the most prominent Roman societal strata, More »