I guess we will have to wait and see if Scott Taylor's prediction comes true. I don't think people should be fear mongering unless they are quite certain.
First of all, Scott Taylor has been writing about the Balkans for a long time. He was the first Western reporter to zero in on what happened in the Medak pocket. He isn’t prone to fantasy.
Second, the Gerard Gallucci resignation and report that he mentioned are verifiable fact and have mentioned in many other news articles. Our guy, Gallucci, was fed up with the provocations of the Serbs and the Albanians and Kouchner hate him.
Third, what Taylor is saying makes perfect sense, if you think about it in a cold, bloodless chess-move way — which is how NATO has thought about Kosovo from the start.
Re Tom Gambill —Plans change based on circumstance. They didn’t count on Tom Gambill blowing the whistle in public. The March pogrom itself and Tom’s whistle- blowing changed the plan. There came a point where Albanians couldn’t be seen to being doing nasty stuff like they got away with before march 2004, and still have any sympathy for getting their own state.
Think about it — I don’t think Scott is off the mark here at all.