[wardaddy]

I hope demographics are never a basis for declaring secession

Proctor, you should review world history, aside from resource demands....demographics are the most common cause for any territorial conflict.

This new notion that race, religion, creed etc should not matter in diversity rich civilizations is a Pollyanna notion and has zero precedence.

It's messianic.

History is littered with precisely how much demographics count with any society that comes in conflict with Islam and the Balkans have been the route of choice for European expansion in that insidious hegemony for a thousand years and those living there know that all too well.

[Proctor]

Probably true. But your argument leads to the logical conclusion of social Darwinism because it forces the majority population to slam down on the minority one to prevent them from reproducing.

I am a fan of autonomy and that is the direction Kosovo should be pushed into - not 'independence' because if you are a student of history you will know that Kosovo is not viable and will create problems with Albania and other Balkan nations. We want to limit the 'Balkanization' of the Balkans not create more jigsaw puzzles on that map.