To: Hoplite
"Really? The ANA, UCPMB, and KLA itself have all been undercut by local political changes - the Nationalist forces they were opposing have now stolen a plank from their platform in calling for ethnic partitions of both Macedonia and Kosovo."
Maybe somewhat undercut, but definetely not dead. They can still stir up a lot of trouble and try to torpedo a political settlement. That was probably what the ANA were trying to do by bombing the railway. They don't just believe in the Nationalist cause, they want to rule their independent Kosovo, or their greater Albania or greater Kosovo. There's still the possibility of a political solution going south.
15 posted on
05/08/2003 8:41:16 AM PDT by
Jacob Kell
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To: Jacob Kell
They can try to act as spoilers and foment unrest, but ultimately they will suffer the same fate as any other party that relies upon a destructive ethos rather than a constructive one.
It bears watching, in an 'export stability or import instability' kind of way, and so long as we do, I don't expect any major train wrecks (a return to full-on armed ethnic conflict).
16 posted on
05/08/2003 9:33:21 AM PDT by
Hoplite
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