The Albanians themselves tell us what their plans are. The Albanian American Civic League, who was so successful in dragging the US into meeting its needs in securing Kosovo for Albanians, has sections on its website dedicated to "the struggle of Albanians" in four more countries in that neighborhood -- Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro, and the Presevo Valley of Serbia. It's just a matter of time.
And if they succeed, there will be a new "Muslim Corridor" stretching from Northern Greece up to Bosnia, and West to East, from the Adriatic over to Bulgaria (which has its own Muslims and is next-door to Turkey & the Black Sea).
Ah, but Albanians are supposed to be "peace-loving, secular Muslims" -- uh-huh.....
"I repeatedly reaffirmed the Christmas warning of the Bush administration on instructions, as did the rest of the Clinton administration. His reaction was that Kosovo is an internal matter. We said we accept the fact that Kosovo is inside the Yugoslav national boundary, but that does not give you the right to squash its people.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kosovo/interviews/holbrooke.html
The Christmas warning basically suggests that the US would take unilateral action, that Kosovo is the red line. The question of the use of force comes up in the spring of 1998. What's the decision on that? What's Washington thinking about that, and what are you advising?
My advice and position on Kosovo, from the beginning of my involvement in the spring of 1998 on, was basically that the Serbs and the Albanians would never be able to settle their problems unless there was an outside international security presence on the ground. The hatred between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo was far, far greater than any of the so-called ethnic hatreds of Bosnia, which had been grossly exaggerated by the crooks, and the mafioso demagogues in the ethnic communities of Bosnia. This was the real thing in Kosovo between Albanians and the Serbs. Different cultures, different languages, and different histories, but a common obsession with the same sacred soil. And, therefore, it was going to be essential for us to recognize that the situation would require an outside involvement."
"Milosevic said to me at one point, "Are you crazy enough to bomb us over these issues we're talking about in that lousy little Kosovo?" And I said, "You bet, we're just crazy enough to do it." . . .