Yugoslavia today is undemocratic and on the brink of civil war. We are out of line with developments in Europe. We need to join the European Community, but that’s impossible as long as the Serbian policy in Kosovo persists. Kosovo is the touchstone that will mark Yugoslavia’s readiness to be a modern, progressive, democratic state. Only if we cannot achieve democracy would Slovenia consider secession.Milan Kucan, President of Slovenia.
Thus did Milosevic truss up the Kosovar Albanians, and sacrifice Yugoslavia on the altar of Serbian Nationalism.
And you're still praying at that altar, FireWall.
Pulling at more straws Hoplite? As already established in my previous post, you can thank Tito for creating the hornets nest in Kosovo while we can blame the Serbs for buying into the communist propoganda that Tito spoonfed them since the end of the war. Since both you and I seem to agree that Tito was the father of the fine mess in the Balkans, you should quit quoting irrelevent figures such as Racan, the Slovenians are more interested in tooting their own horn for sake of image to the EU than relying on the facts. Remember who shot first Hoplite, Slovenian paramilitaries attacked a JNA barracks full of unarmed soldiers, bravery at its finest. Slovenia is not interested in Kosovo's future, they're only worried about theirs, its the PC thing to do.
C'mon Hoplite, by your own admission had Draza not been screwed by Soviet moles feeding BS to Churchill, Kosovo would not be in its current pickle. Serbs would have been allowed back top their homes unlike Tito's resolution, history would have been certainly quite different now.
Kosovo enjoyed more autonomy than most States here in the US but still whined about not having enough government assistance, I guess the Albanian inteligencia(oxymoron) found it easier to whine than work. Well Hoplite, since Milo no longer has the reigns on Kosovo, I ask you, is Kosovo better off today? An Albanian Kosovo = a crime ridden Europe. If you feel the benevolent Kosovars are such a model of democracy, why don't you go there on vacation?