Another Failed State?

Hell, man, when it's about the USA, there are other standards. The National Guard would solve that in an hour, no international discussions involved.

At least he knows how to write. Give me one Kosovar journalist who writes for the Newsweek? I didn't think so. Go iron your new Albanian flag.

SERBS ARE LIKE NAZIS???? What the hell do you know about it? Wait, let me guess, the Balkans is "backward, savage, uneducated", especially the Serbis, right? Go to the library, you know, the place where the books are...or, if you do not know what a book is, google it....and take one called HISTORY. If you manage to read it, mail it to Mr. Bush.

Serbs are like Nazis? What do you base that on? And what are the Albanians? You want to tell me that they stood by innocently and have NOT committed atrocities??? The ATROCITIES that Albanians have committed have been going on much longer that the war in 99. Anyone that has ever visted Serbia and come back to the Unites States was in AWE of the hospitatility they received by the Serbian People. The warmth, the generosity, the friendliness. That sure as heck doesn't really make the Serbs sound like a bunch of savages.

The Serbians want to protect THEIR LAND!! Kosovo has been a part of Serbia for Centuries. Last time I checked, there was a country called Albania...why don't the Albanians go back there??? What's wrong with the country you have had...Albania? Need more than one country? Don't you realaize that noon wants you. Not the Macedonians, not the Romanians, not the Greeks. But your plan is to migrate to other countries...breed like a bunch of rabbits (because that is what you do best) so that you can miraculously become the MAJORITY population...and keep declaring independance one country at a time. One day someone will put a stop to y. The rest of the world will become wise to the evil doings of the Albanians -- we just hope and pray that it is not too late.

could not agree more

Common, italogirl, what are you talking about?! There are at least 2 hostile parties in any war. And in this war both Albanians and Serbs were equally brutal and practiced ethnic cleansing, which is proved by numerous documents and evidents. How about Serbian little girls who were raped by UCK soldiers and whose parents were killed? You haven't met them??? May be you didn't want to hear and see? Well, perhaps you should have to try to see both sides. I'm not saying that Serbs soldiers were angels, but Albanian soldiers were at least as cruel and awful beasts. As for your work with international organization in Kosovo, perhaps you should come back and see how Albanians used all those opportunities that Nato's support have gave them. Not much to be proud of.... As for Kosovo's independence from Serbia, yeah, why not, but then why no independence for Basks in Spain, Kurds in Turkey and Iraq, Abkhazian and South Osetins in Georgia? These people also suffered and are also as much alienated from central governments as Kosovars are alienated from Serbian government. However western countries are not going to grant independence to them. Why some people are more equal than others? People, why do you let mass media to wash your brains? Just for a change start using your head fro what it was given to you!!! What happened in Kosovo may be justified politically, but it IS a violation of international law. And we all gonna suffer from this in the long, or may be short perspective.

http://www.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/

read lecture one - turns out serbs invaded albanian lands just like we did invade north american lands. we however, brough prosperity and built the strongest nation on earth, you guys brought misery. why on earth did you not leave kosovo now as the brits left hong kong - prosperous and modern. you left poverty misery. and now you want me to believe how these guys are mafia and what have you.

read lecture 13 to evaluate whether kosovo has always been serbia: Deferring their rival claims to Macedonian territory, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria agreed to cooperate in defiance of the Great Powers, then made plans to throw the Turks out of Europe. In 1912, all four states declared war on Turkey and rapidly liberated Macedonia and much of Thrace in the First Balkan War. Serbian and Greek troops divided Macedonia between themselves: when Bulgaria demanded a share, Greece, Serbia and Romania fought the Second Balkan War in 1913 in order to keep the spoils. Serbia increased in size by 82 percent, the greatest single step so far toward Garasanin's Great Serbian vision in the Nacertanije. Serbian attention now turned north toward Austrian-ruled Bosnia, Croatia and Vojvodina.
AND PLEASE DON'T GIVE ME ALL THAT CHURCH FOUNDATION THING AND KOSOVSKO POLE *** - EVERYONE FOUGHT THE TURKS, YOU GUYS WERE JUST WERE MORE SKILLED AT TAKING BIGGER CHUNKS FROM IT. IF YOU KNEW HOW TO MANAGE IT, YOU WOULD HAVE HAD IT ALL FOR YOU. ALAS, ROTTEN YOU ARE...

and the most interesting part is part one. why are these people so backward in the balkans? is it the ottomans...the geography...culture....?

Just shut up you people are just lazy as they come.

the fact that the writer turned out to be a serb, means WE ARE TIRED OF GIVING YOU SERBS THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. A SERB SHOULD NOT BE ON A MAIN PAGE ON MY COUNTRY'S MAJOR MEDIA OUTLETS TOT TELL ME ABOUT KOSOVO. us my friend, we make history, we change lives, we free countries from nazis, fascists and the likes, we make things happen, and the slightest hunch that we may have gotten it wrong seriously risks us losing the benefit of the doubt and positive image we have built over centuries. and you serbs think you can get away with raping women and children for decades, killing civilians, burning and pillaging, creating concentration camps in the 21st century, and you still want us to give you the benefit of the doubt. get a life. you guys make me sick with your hate-filled rotten souls. let's talk about serbia. let your brother serb tell me about the failed state of serbia. do not judge this young nation on day 1. man, you make me sick...

From the article: "Albanian Muslims murder Kosovo Serbian civilians in streets in 1941 after Adolf Hitler granted them "independence"." I think we just need to change couple of facts and history is repeating, instead of 1941 is 2008 and instead of Adolf Hitler it is George Bush.

I agree with at least part of your statements. The co-author of ths article is definitely Serbian.He is certianly entitled to his opinion, and I'm sure he has either lived in the region or at least has family there. At any rate he is more qualified to voice an opinion in this matter than most. What is troubling to me is he is givien a major news venue to express his views. I'am a little surprised that Newsweek would allow a writer to be so blatently bias within their pages. Having lived and worked in the area for quite some time; I can tell you there is enough blame to around. That being said; Serbia lost any right it had to rule Kosovo in 1999.

the answers is easy how they can approve such ridiculous act:
ITS JUST COZ THEY DONT CARE FOR ANYBODY ELSE except for themself.

I think you don???t have a single reason to be proud as a Serb. From the history Serbian have promote violence and destruction in Balkan. Don???t forget the brutal ethnic cleansing and one of the biggest genocide that Serbia did 1999. I am not Serbian and neither Albanian but I worked with international humanitarian organization there during the war. I can???t forget the tears of the little Albanians girls raped by Serbian solders after they killed their parents. Milosevic was a Hitler. Albanian are one of the most civilized and peaceful people in Balkan. They love freedom, democracy and peace as well. But I can???t say the same for Serbian. Look at the history people. Serbian fight with Croatian first, and than with Bosnian and after that with Kosovo???s, and which one is next??? I think with themselves because they like to fight and they don???t like peace???