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To: Kate22
It was a good cheap shot :)

"wonk" is a relatively new term, meaning "pundit".



be seeing you,

foreign policy wonk


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63 posted on 02/03/2003 6:17:51 AM PST by foreign policy wonk (Take down the House of Saud!)
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To: foreign policy wonk; smokegenerator
Smokegenerator is 100% right in his ascertion that Kosovo is Serbian - this is accepted internationally, the boundaries remain in place and sovereign ownership of the territory rests with Serbia under Resolution 1244.

Of course the vast majority of Albanians are never going to accept this, but that's not going to change anything. Even Dole and McCain's powerful pro KLA lobby won't change anything. The KLA has shown itself to be a murderous bunch of thugs which are running the province of Kosovo as a smuggler's paradise. The whole of Europe has been affected by the high rate of crime and no European government is about to support independence (even Blair).

"Re-establishing entire control over Kosovo is a double-edged sword, as the international community won't allow that to happen."

Djindjic has it right though - the troops may well be needed elsewhere in the world pretty soon. I think that it is a possibility that there will be a handing back of control to the Serbian government in Kosovo, but it is bound to spark off major trouble from the KLA. The 'international community' would have to be prepared to support the transition realistically and work with the reformed Serbian government.

70 posted on 02/03/2003 9:00:36 AM PST by Kate22
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