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To: Banat
They're not "misrepresenting" it, and the electorate in Serbia weren't born yesterday, either.

Show me Serbian politicians who've been honest and come out and stated that Kosovo is for all intents and purposes lost to Serbia.

Here, I'll help you. That's one.

Belgrade's position is that it won't ever accept an independent Kosovo, and that's pretty much the attitude of the vast majority of the electorate.

Then Belgrade can deal with an independent Kosovo however it sees fit - denial up to independence and then kicking and screaming appears to be the plan if folks around here are any indication. Oughta work out just great.

It's ridiculous to accuse Belgrade of protecting him after having sent the entire military-political leadership of Yugoslavia/Serbia -- including Miloshevich -- to the Hague.

Excuse me? Taking individuals into custody and then extraditing them isn't the same thing as providing incentives for indictees to "take one for the team". The Serbian government at this time is reduced to negotiating with and bribing indictees to travel voluntarily to the Hague, and if they don't want to go, then they don't go.

Consider the cases of Pavkovic, Lazarevic, Djordjevic, and Lukic, all indicted in October of 2003. As soon as they were indicted, the Serbian government was obligated to arrest them and extradite them to the Hague.

Did this happen with any of them? Of course not. The men remained free until 3 of them were persuaded to turn themselves in to the Hague in 2005, while Djordjevic high-tailed it out of the country, and has been reported living as a fugitive in Russia.

So, again, Serbia's past actions are being used to judge it today - if Mladic continues to screw Serbia by flipping Belgrade the bird and not going to the Hague, then so be it. It's Belgrade's responsibility, and Belgrade will continue to be held accountable for the failure.

71 posted on 09/14/2006 7:30:09 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite

Those like you who preach independence for Kosovo are atavistic holdovers from the Bolshevik era. They like the other fool you refer to seem to have morphed into Soros boys.

Get it through your royal thickness: forcing ethnically based autonomous states is a failed concept. They may be useful tools for Soros style financial exploitation and other criminal enterprise but nothing else good can come of them.


78 posted on 09/15/2006 11:02:11 AM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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