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Stop the Conspiracy Theories!

The good Professor can't help but repeat the old line of the Old Guard--the Russians and the Serbs. Maybe you have, but we have not forogotten the awful crimes and atrocities committed by Serbs on men, women, and children of Kosovo (not to mention the absolute tragedy of the Bosnians). It is so irresponsible to sit back and call everything that you don't agree with as colonialism. The people of Kosovo deserve to be independent. There is no reason for them to be ruled by their tormentors. How could you foregt the killings, the rapes, the tirture, just less than 10 years ago? I can tell, you, like many others who agree with you have little sense of empathy for these innocent pepole. Your hatred of America has made you blind to justice and fairness for all. I am so glad that there are not enough of you in this world. People like you preach hatred and negativity. Now, I don't want you writing telling me about the Crimes of the U.S. Just look at the footage of the many innocent people in the 1990s when they were being rounded up by other civilians and killed by the very people you claim to defend.

Professor???

You have got to be joking! The quality of writing and analysis is horrible. Sorry to be mean, but he must have got his PhD in one of those IR private universities, online, or disneyland U. Another sign is his screen name "Professor", only bunch of "oghdeyee", fob PhDs would introduce themselves as such.

Iran won't be Kosovo if.....

I don't think Iran would have the same faith as Kosovo once liberated from the filthy IRI regime. However the only democratic way for Iran to follow is to become a secular FEDERAL Iran where the regions are governed by its own ethnicity. This hasn't been the case for Iran for 100 years. A federal Iran would respect every Iranian's culture and stop any nonsense regarding separation and independence.

An yeah, Iranians are

governed by a bunch of democratically elected peace-loving, caring, humanitarian angels!? Khar Khodeti Haji!?

I totally agree!

I hope that the catastrophic results in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq have taught us not to fall for the empty promises of liberation, and democracy by foreign powers.

These wars have led to nothing more than destruction of countries and loss of lives of millions of innocent people, while the beneficiaries have been the power elite who have replaced the old dictators, with colonial rule under the “guise of democracy”.

In every case, the people of these countries have lost their independence, their resources have been pillaged and contracts have been dished out to multinational corporations, their standard of living has deteriorated significantly leaving many people displaced, poorer, less secure and unsafe.

Not only did they not gain anything but lost all that they once had!!

If these deceitful tactics by foreign powers are not enough to wake us up, I don't know what would?

Apparently the "filthy

Apparently the "filthy Zionist" don't agree with the U.S. on the issue of Kosovo's Independence...

Good grief . . . John Bolton

It is interesting for me to read both sides of the story of Kosovo.

Some people such as John Bolton must not be trusted. Tell the neo-con Bolton to support the UN Security treaty which the U.S. and other European countries signed. He speaks from both sides of his mouth.

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A quote from Paul Williams at Canada Free Press, 21 February 2008

America’s war on terror has come full circle. By pledging his support of Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia, President George W. Bush has sanctioned the genocide of thousands of Serbian Christians in the Balkans and the creation, thanks to al Qaeda, of a radical Muslim state at the doorway to Europe.

A quote from Taki Theodoracopulos at his website, 18 February 2008

How can the [U.S.] State Department be so idiotic? […] We go to war against the only secular leader of the Muslim world, Saddam, unleash death and destruction and waste our men and resources instead of concentrating them in Afghanistan, and now we encourage, along with the craven Brits and French, a hotbed of terrorism to become the world’s 193rd nation.

A quote from John Bolton, the former American ambassador at the UN, 17 February 2008

Kosovo will be a weak country submissive to Islamic radical forces which will spread its influence in the area with the support of singular Albanians and so potentially open the door to radicals in Europe.
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The other side of the

The other side of the controversy:

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"The fledgling failed-state of Kosovo is a great boon for the global jihad. It is true that Kosovar Muslims by and large do not subscribe to radical Islam. But it is also true that they have allowed their territory to be used as bases for al-Qaida operations; that members of the ruling Kosovo Liberation Army have direct links to al-Qaida; […]

According to a 2002 Wall Street Journal report, al-Qaida began operating actively in Kosovo, and in the rest of the Balkans, in 1992. Osama bin Laden visited Albania in 1996 and 1997. He received a Bosnian passport from the Bosnian Embassy in Austria in 1993. Acting on bin Laden's orders, in 1994 his deputy, Ayman Zawahiri set up training bases throughout the Balkans including one in Mitrovica, Kosovo. The Taliban and al-Qaida set up drug trafficking operations in Kosovo to finance their operations in Afghanistan and beyond.

In 2006, John Gizzi reported in Human Events that the German intelligence service BND had confirmed that the 2005 terrorist bombings in Britain and the 2004 bombings in Spain were organized in Kosovo. Furthermore, "The man at the center of the provision of the explosives in both instances was an Albanian, operating mostly out of Kosovo... who is the second ranking leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Niam Behzloulzi." […]

Supporters of Kosovo claim that as victims of "genocide," Kosovar Muslims deserve independence. But if the Muslims in Kosovo have been targeted for annihilation by the Serbs, then how is it that they have increased from 48% of the population in 1948 to 92% today? Indeed, Muslims comprised only 78% of the population in 1991, the year before Yugoslavia broke apart."

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dreams ruined by greed

Thank you Dr Ala

It's so sad how people's dreams for a better future can be ruined by the greed of the likes of Halliburton, Exxon and Mobil etc...

Is the human life the cheapest commodity in the world?

IRANdokht

Thanks

Thanks. Very true, Kosovo is not gaining independence. The recognition of Kosovo is in violation of UN security treaty.

Cannot believe Halliburton is every where.

Under Tito, Kosovo was an

Under Tito, Kosovo was an autonomous region (1948-1989) separate from Serbia. In the post-Tito era, the Serbs wanted to turn a part of their historical homeland into a Muslim Bantustan.

The Albanian Kosovars are the preponderant majority in Kosovo. The Slovenes, Croats and Bosnians all backed off from a Belgrade dominated state. Why? Should they be expected to trust the Serbs?

interestingly kosovo albanians for years led a nonviolent civil disobedience struggle against the serbian oppression. and they were the only ones to do so in former yugoslavia. only later did they also use armed struggle.

in tito's yugoslavia kosovo was a socialist autonomous province and its inhabitants sought for it to become a socialist republic. milosevic, who started several wars on the teritory of fomer yugoslavia and who with his autocratic moves pushed other nations to seek separation from yugoslavia (to which they all had right according to yugoslav constitutions which gave the republic the right to selfdetermination to the point of secession on the basis of a referendum - something silly milosevic supporters know nothing about) - so, this milosevic in the late 80-ties violated the constitution and stripped kosovo of its autonomous status.

There were 12000 albanians killed in milosevic's ethnic cleansing campagin in kosovo. hundreds of thousands were forced to leave their homes. they were collecitvely deported and stripped of their documents. prior to that they were oppressed and their human rights were being gravely violated by the serbian government.

Kosovo was inhabited by a large Serbian majority until circa 1300 when the Turks invaded it. It resisted heroically the Turkish war of aggression and it has reained part of Serbia until very recently. I think the Kosovars ought to find accomodation and agreement with the rest of Serbia, but that the will of the local majority should not overwrite the rights of the minority and erase centuries of history.

Kosovo is not an artificial partition. It is a territory whose population does not want be under Serbian control and who people differ markedly from the general Sebrian population, who tried to commit genocide against them. These people are not immigrants stealing somebody else's country (as were the Zionists), but a people realizing their right to self determination, just as Palestinians ought to, and just as countless people throughout Africa and Asia have.

Kosovo does not have an Albanian minority, it has an Albanian majority. That is the difference. If any of the areas you mentioned had Mexican or Native American majorities there would be a comparison, but there is none.

Secondly, Serbia is a nation state. Just like most of the countries around it. Its identity is inherently exclusionary to ethnic Albanians. The Serbs have shown through their actions; they did not want Albanians and tried to wipe them out. They don't want the people, they want the land, and how will they get it? They'll probably try to wipe out more Albanains if they're ever given the chance. There is no legitimate claim that Serbia can make to Kosovo; the people of Kosovo do not want their sovereignty over it (which is what is most relevant) and the international community cannot trust them with it.

The Serbs are more motivated by intolerant ethnonationalism (look at Serbian policy towards Kosovo over the past hundred years, ethnic exchanges, forced migration, ethnic cleaning, genocide, etc) than the Kosovars and there is not really a strong comparison between Palestine and Kosovo other than that the people of both lands deserve independence. Kosovo was not pried out of Serbia by the West; the Serbs violated in the worst way the social contract and there are very few Kosovars that would reenter it with them; can you blame them? Mr. Alla has it backward. The argument he is making was made in France when the Algerians wanted liberation from a violent regime that abused them, not unlike the Serbs have abused Kosovo.

Imagine 15 Kosovos in Iran!

As many know, Iran is made up of over 15 tribal and ethnic groups, and should this same breakup happen in Iran, the results could be disastrous for all. This now has a term, called "Balkanization", and is one of the (few) pitfalls of a society's movement towards Democracy. Often this social transition feels more like chaos and anarchy, and as the result in the Balkans shows, paved with blood. Hopefully the recent history of the Balkans ill be heeded by the rest of the world. Great piece.

Who is going to stop them?

Very sad but true. Thanks for sharing the information.

I am not sure if short of an all out nuclear War, there is any other force that will stop this U.S. greed/selfishness/arogance for the domination of the World.

I am afraid the all out War may be much closer than we think.

I don't think the modern World is going to bow down and take all of this.

Lessons for us

well said professor:

"As people, it is not wise for us to accept promises that better days are ahead, for it is very possible that not only will the promises fail to be delivered, but, even worse, we lose much of what we cherish."