Posted on 12/06/2007 8:59:43 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
The negotiations on Kosovo's future status have come to an end. What happens next is anybody's guess. The West is scrambling to come up with a plan to handle the expected declaration of independence.
The countdown has been going on for months. Every day marked off the calendar in Kosovo has seemed, almost inevitably, like another day toward the small, Serbian province's independence and negotiators from the European Union, the US and Russia will be handing in their report to the United Nations Monday on final status talks between Kosovo and Serbia.
The verdict of the report, of course, is hardly a secret: complete and utter failure. The problem is, though, that there is no plan for what happens next.
"I know the people of Kosovo have enough maturity to let international mechanisms work," UN Kosovo administrator Joachim Rücker said Wednesday. "It is very important to get the next steps right."
Exactly what those steps might look like, though, is up in the air. Foreign ministers from NATO and the European Union gathered in Brussels Thursday to find common ground on how to proceed with the Kosovo issue. They were hoping to agree on keeping 16,000 peacekeepers in the province even beyond the Monday deadline for reaching an international agreement on Kosovo's future status.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Now, there's an understatement if I've ever heard one. Especially, when they're dealing with people like Hashim Thaci and Agim Ceku.
Send Bill Clinton over there; after all. he’s the one who f. it up in the first place.
Yes, but with Hillary pulling the strings:"
"According to Hillary-fan, Gail Sheehy' book, ( "Hillary's Choice", p.345), it was actually Hillary, personally, who in 1999 urged her husband to bomb Serbia on behalf of the Albanians. Hillary convinced then President Clinton to violate the US Constitution and NATO's charter to arm-twist NATO countries to go along with the bombing so that the US would not be left holding the bag, alone."
Just think what she’ll do if she becomes President.
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