Our Balkans Error By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

The removal of European Union officials from Kosovo, the newly independent former Serbian province, is bad news. Trouble is on the way, and once again the U.S. may be asked to clean up the mess.

The State Department's decision to back Kosovo's independence from Serbia will go down as a major mistake. Supporting a Muslim separatist movement within Europe strikes us as a fool's errand, one that could lead to similar uprisings around the world from aggrieved minorities.

Demonstrations and riots on Serbia's border with northern Kosovo — which Serbs consider to be their nation's heartland — have caused NATO forces in the area to seal off the border. Fearing violence, the EU has withdrawn 2,000 officials there.

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