KOSOVO:How a 'Success Story' Became Such a Mess

Inter Press Service (IPS) ^ | 28 February 2008 | Apostolis Fotiadis

[Banat]

If Kosovo independence is illegal, then so would Mitrovica independence be illegal. For Serbia to recognize Mitrovica independence, they would have to recognize Kosovo independence first.

No. Northern Kosovo isn't going to proclaim independence. It is going to proclaim that it doesn't wish to separate from Serbia. Since it is majority Serbian, I think those people have the right to decide for themselves where they want to live, following the example set by Kosovo Albanians. However, given that pretty much all the mineral wealth is situated north of the Ibar (i.e. North Kosovo)...

It's up to the international community to decide whether they want another Middle East or Northern Ireland or a frozen conflict such as Cyprus, where the two sides can work it out in peace, at the table.

[Tailgunner Joe]

For example, Bill Clinton, the rapist-in-chief signed the Kyoto treaty, an international socialist weapon for destroying the United States of America. When George W. Bush became President, he rescinded our country’s signature and today we are not part of the Kyoto treaty. This was absolutely the right decision. Another treaty George W. Bush abrogated was the ABM treaty. This was another of President Bush’s crowning achievements. Treaties can be broken the same way they are agreed to. We decide to agree to them, and only we decide if we want to break them. Nobody can make the USA follow a treaty because our government answer to we, the people, not to the UN, or Serbia, or Russia. This is what we mean when we say that the US is a sovereign nation. That’s not anarchy, it's the rule of law, our law, and no one else’s.