U.S. Embassy in Belgrade Set on Fire

The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade has been set afire, amid protests that drew about 150,000 Serbs after Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia.

My thoughts on Kosovo independence are admittedly sketchy because -- well,  I don't spend a lot of time thinking about Serbia.

1.  Self-governing independence -- good.

2.  Formation of new Muslim state that has already destroyed all or most Orthodox Christian churches in Kosovo -- scary.

3.  Engraging Serbians against the U.S. - worrisome.

4.  Is this another example of the troubled fruits of Bill Clinton's foreign policy?  Or should we give Clinton a pass on this one since at least the goal of self-rule is being served?

Feel free to chime in, if you have thoughts to share.

Update:  Now this is irritating:  an attempt to blame George Bush for the overreaction to Kosovo's declaration of independence.  The author writes:

The Economist is likely right that Kosovo's independence was inevitable and that its people could not be indefinitely held in a state of limbo. But managing global reaction and the predictable emotional tide in Serbia accompanying the undoing of hundreds of history is a delicate diplomatic task for the international community and especially for President George W. Bush.

Now George Bush is responsible for "managing global reaction" and "emotional tides"?  Excuse me, but even God doesn't attempt to predetermine "global reaction" and emotonal tides.  What if Russia's emotional tide differs from Serbs' emotional tide, which in turn differs from the emotional tides of ethnic Albanians?  What then?  Is Bush a Global Wizard, responsible for all he surveys and plenty of what he can't possibly survey, let alone control?

Now that sort of reasoning what I call being swept along by an emotional tide.