Another Failed State?

Opinion: First of all is not Kosovo any more but it is Kosova, and second of all is not Pristina (which doesent make sense) but it is Prishtina. The Republic of Kosova had to take this step long time ago...maybe 10 years ago. In my opinion I dont see any failing state or country that had fought for thousends of years and the will of people to go on must be considered since they floodded enough blood on the soil which wasnt neccesery not becoasue they wanted but Serbia the most 'Inoccente' country of the world did that, which lead us to remeber what they did also to Slovens, Croats and Bosniacs which give us the result of deaths more than 50.000 people. Whats that WW3 or somthing? Who's right is to kill a man on the street or a baby on her mothers hand or a pregnant woman waiting to give a birth? Did someone choos Serbia to kill these people? I guess no. After year of 1996 Bosniacs were demolated, and started from -0 to builld their state, not that Bosnia is big role state in the world but see where they are. Not forgetting the Croats that had the same luck, where is Croatia now in terms of economic, politic and clutural aspects? Far beyond Serbia. I can clearly tell you that Kosovar Albanians have that potential to survive and go far away by any aspects. After 1999 sine NATO came in it happend only one accident but not a very big one which was cause of 6 serbs and 11 albanians dead. That was March 17-18, 2004. After that nothing special happend for Serbia to complain as they do even for Sun and Rain. Now Republic of Kosova have Declared Independence in its best way, in the most Democratic and most proper way as a normal country would do. More than a million Albanians from all over the ballkans have came to celebrate the freedom and they did it in the BEST possible way, it was a celebration that have to be taken as example have to behave. These are the very first days of their free country the world power have recognised like: USA, France, Britain, Germany, etc etc...so whats the big deal if Russia doesent accept or Brasil, which after few months or years they will do it.

to tanja9581:
Albania is the poorest country in the word? Where do you get your information from and since when Serbia is rich? Kosova was forced to be under Serbia for 100 years. Let them be alone another 100 and time will show what they can do. Serbia did not provide anything to Kosova, they simply used its resources. Basque are spanish people and they are provided anything but indipendence. KOSOVA HAD NOTHING UNDER SERBIA. Wrong parelel in your end. TIME WILL SHOW, this is right, it will show also if Serbs will be standing still, moving forward or bacward. By recalling the ambasadors from US and Western Europe, Serbia will only isolate itself further and it is a pitty because they were open under Tito when the entire eastern block could not do that. SERBIA had it all and it lost it because of it is own fault.

International Law allows for the right to self determination. The reason why the UN is flawed and will always be flawed, is that you have 5 permanent members of the Security Council that run the show, call the shots, and when they disagree, they can veto something that they don't like. It is convenient to hide under the auspices of the UN world order when every kosovar independence intiative was met with strong opposition from russian dimplomacy because of their veto power. Plan B is what played out over the past two days and it will continue to play out until the russians and serbs eventually give in. And if they don't give in, it won't be such a big deal after all, Kosovo is better off today and has better friends than Belgrade. That is the cold hard fact that every serb ultra-nationalist is having trouble with as they sleep at night. I hope that the pro-western serbs can sustain power and help to cure the epidemic of serbian ultra-nationalism, only then will connections with nazi germany be overlooked in the future (but never forgotten).

Tamerlane: I would leave the flag alone. while Serbs learned to shown their anger by burning US, Albanians etc flags, nobody is burning Serbian ones in Kosova or elsewhere. Be civilizied first. And to be truthfull, Serbs had it all and they lost it because of their actions. Give Kosova a chance.
doesntmatter: There is no parallel to Hispanics in the US and Kosovars and history will prove it. And even if that happens, what will you do? Go to Russia so you be what you call "Hispanic in the US" or Serbia, so you can fight another war? Hague will have the doors open.
vojkan:
avavav: right on history, but all Serbs learned from history is that they are the best thing that happened to the balkans. Not true. While I doubt Serbs are bad, the bad, nationalist and showinists lead the country and hold it hostage.
VOJKAN: the true one who can understand the serb anger. Will their anger make Serbia's life better, will it create opportunities, even if you get part of Mitrovica or even Kosova (you will never see that happen) will the Serbs ever change? If Serbia had Kosovo, will it create jobs, will it let them school in Albanian and have their own university which was closed by Milosevic? Will Albanians be able to work in administration while they always made 90% of the county and the 5-6% serbs held all the government positions? SERBIA NEEDS TO MOVE ON, Kosovo already is.

To nikki: Because the Federal Army was controllled by the serbs, police and administration also.In 1999 they drove over 1mm Albanian Kosovars into the Albania, people killed in mass graves, girls/women rapped.
And while YES, Serbs fought the Nazis, the last 20 years can not be forgotten: Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia and Kosovo. A lot of unnecessary blod.......= crimes.

Vojkan, you sure are relentless in spewing your anger and posinous rhetoric. Bin Laden country, Islamic State, all of these bullet point references have been in constant use by ultra-nationalist serbs. Bin Laden countries burn the stars and stripes in front of CNN and BBC. They don't happily grip it and fly it along with the flags of France, the UK and Germany as the independent Kosovars did. Furthermore, they don't even burn flags of dissidents to there cause, such as Serbia and Russia. We did see serbs in Mitrovica burning the US flag in protests yesterday and we also saw that one of the few allies that Milosevic had while belgrade was being bombed was Saddam Hussein and his terrorist regime in Baghdad.

I am proud of my Jewish my Jewish heritage and to pose as some other person would be childish and stupid. Like I said in my earlier post my family was massacred by Serbians and so were many other Jews. We escaped to Albania, the Serbs did not kill us because we did something wrong , they killed us because of who we were. Shame on you for even accusing me of being an Albanian. I have my dignity and my scars to prove who I am.

Serbia is a Nazi State and I stand behind my words. How many wars has Sebia started? Let's see, Slovenia,
Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Each war the Serbs started were lost. Why? Because Genocide. You can not Cleanse a whole ethnicty, not in this day and age. The world , the Western world does not tolerate Barbarics.

Here's how it is done, leave your country (Albania) sneak over illegally into your neighbors country, have more births them the host country and then when you outnumber the original inhabitants you take their country away. This will also work based on religion or ethnicity or both. This declaration bodes badly for the future of nations. President Bush must be mad.

Apparently you good people are Albanians. Otherwise you would not shame the outlet for using the Serb autor. Now let me ask you why Albanians need two states Albania and Kosovo side by side? Let's say Albanians did not like the way government treated them in Serbia. Why did not they move to Albania - their home country?