When it comes to the eternally fluctuating Albanian bodycount, I will quote Mr. John Zavales who, at the time of event, “served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1991 to 2001. During the 1999 Kosovo crisis he was based in Albania as a part of Operation Shining Hope, the relief operation in support of Kosovar refugees.”

in his article related specifically to this matter he said, ” In order to mobilize support for military intervention, Western political leaders deployed the word “genocide,” in a way that we now know to have been cavalier and misleading. The number of Albanians allegedly murdered in the course of Milosevic’s campaign has steadily dropped, from the hundred thousand spoken of during the war, to ten thousand in its immediate aftermath, to a final estimate of perhaps a few thousand, including many killed by ground combat and NATO bombing. Mass gravesites, claimed at the time to contain thousands of victims, were investigated and found to have been either exaggerated by orders of magnitude or entirely fictional.”

http://www.inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol3Issue33/Vol3Issue33Zavales.html

So cool it off with numbers. It’s a propaganda fabricated by media.

Unlike the Albanian fake Holocaust, Jews in WWII actually suffered the real Holocaust and I have never seen a single mention of creating a Jewish country at the expense of Germany. Why? Because two wrongs never make it good.

When it comes to Resolution 1244…

“A political process towards the establishment of an interim political framework agreement providing for a substantial self-government for Kosovo, taking full account of the Rambouillet accords and the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other countries of the region, and the demilitarization of the KLA;”

So, territorial integrity of Yugoalsvia.

If you say that this is not valid because Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore, then we should apply your principle to everything related to it. Since all the participants of Balkan crisis were Yugoslavian people, they actually don’t exist anymore and since war criminals committed crimes against humanity as Yugoslavians they cannot be considered guilty since they’re not Yugoslavians anymore… Oops, it doesn’t work like that obviously

Should I even mention the demilitarization of KLA? On the contrary, the KLA was transformed into an instiitution in Kosovo thanks to KFOR officials.

If you want to find out more about background of American and Russian involvement in the overall issue, try rather looking up for more info on latest Albanian oil reserves, Transbalkan oil and gas pipeline.

The bottom line is that both countries are major players in the war industry and that they have always plaid this game of warmonging to keep their war industry alive.

If we loose… Just wait, they will come in Slovenia too. How far from Slovenia were Othomans? O, yes. That why you do not know nothing about “cradle of nation”

Most of what you state above is essentially correct of course, from the US point of view although marking Russia’s stance as being limited solely to opposing the US and EU is even more simplistic than my post or comment. My point and the reason for the provocative comparison of Kosovo with Florida and other parts of the US heavily populated by Spanish-speaking people was this: the Spanish speaking population there is growing. In large numbers, they refuse to use the English language. They have their own culture, own economic ties. What if someday they decide they want (Southern) Florida to secede and become independent, perhaps in a way joining in a league with Cuba? It did use to belong to Spain before it was traded for Havana. Perhaps Russia would support the idea?

All of the above aside and even though I don’t believe unilateral moves in this case can produce the best possible results, I sincerely hope for a quick and peaceful resolution of the situation in Kosovo.

Please elaborate how the situation in Kosovo is similar to that of Florida or Southern California. Or any other territory in the world today. In Kosovo we have a UN mandated administration that is the ultimate authority in the province and NATO that is mandated to provide the security for the province. Where else do you have the same situation? Resolution 1244 of the UN Security Council that ended the Kosovo war, was approved after the Yugoslav army had expelled 800 thousand ethnic Albanians from the province, made a further half a million homeless by burning and destroyed their property - so, displacing nearly 90% of the population, killed nearly 10000 people in a space of 3-4 months, and raped 12000 women, in the worst carnage in Europe since the WWII. Have we ever had a smiliar situation in Florida? Any comparison is not even a stretch, but merely a figment of imagination.

It seems that many people speak about the international law without even having read the relevant resolutions pertaining this case, ie the Resolution 1244 of the UNSC of June 1999, Rambouillet Accords of Feb 1999 and the Kumanovo military-technical agreements between NATO and the Yugoslav military that ended the hostilities in Kosovo. According to the Rambouillet Accord, the final status of Kosovo would be resolved via a referendum in the province to be held within 3 years (from 1999). According to the Res 1244, Yugoslavia had only a nominal soverignty over Kosovo, but not even a shred of authority over the province. Its forces were required to stand back outside of a 5 km buffer zone surrounding Kosovo’s borders. The ultimate authority rested with the UN mission, from foreign policy to the rule of law and security and local administration was assigned to the Kosovar government. And Res 1244, was very specific that this was an interim arrangement and called for a final status resolution process based on the Rambouillet Accord (ie referendum). So according to resolution 1244, Yugoslavia not only had merely a nominal sovereignty, but this was also limited to the interim period. Furthermore, Yugoslavia as an entity doesn’t exist anymore, since the breakup of the country in two independent republics, Serbia and Montenegro, in 2005. And while Montenegro supports Kosovo’s independence, Serbia is against it.

There’s nothing illegal or sinister in trying to resolve the final status of Kosovo. It is mandated by the Resolution 1244 which is the international law in this case. Furthermore this resolution specifically states that: “Negotiations between the parties for a settlement should not delay or disrupt the establishment of democratic self-governing institutions.” The international community via the Contact Group (US, EU and Russia) under the auspices of UN had held for two years negotiations between the parties to no conclusion. A UN special envoy, Marti Ahtisaari, came up with a plan based on the CG principles, that gives Kosovo’s independence, yet mandates a supervision from the EU and provides strong protection for the tiny Serbian minority (6% of the population). Russia has come out against it for reasons that have nothing to do with Kosovo, rather than to oppose to US and EU. Serbia on the other hand has been trying to stall and delay the negotiations in the hopes of inflating and inciting the Albanian population against the UN administration and to keep the Kosovo economy in limbo and its people in poverty. The UNSC has been deadlocked on the issue and can not make a decision, and the Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, recently decided to pass the issue over to EU for resolution since this is a European matter. All this is a normal diplomatic process, there’s nothing wrong with it.

So in light of all this, please tell me again, where is the similarity between Florida and Kosovo?