Counterrevolutionary Meditations

Well, there is another scenario: Serbia keeps the title to her real estate but is prevented from taking possession -- for now. Geopolitical circumstances change, a decade or two from now; there's no more NATO, no EU, no Benevolent Global Hegemon, and Serbia reclaims her temporarily usurped domain cca 2025 or thereabouts. At that time, after all that has come to pass since 1999, the Serbs will have an externally approved blueprint on how to treat their restive Albanian minority: to the same high standards of respect for human, religious, national and cultural rights which Kosovo's Serbs have experienced from Messrs. Ceku, Haradinaj and Thaci under UN/NATO. Since their behaviour has been approved by the international community as exemplary in every respect, and lauded as worthy of independent statehood by Ruecker, Ahtisaari, Haekkerup, Steiner, Burns, Holbrooke, etc, etc... we should look forward to the day when Kostunica's successors will adhere strictly to those same august standards in Serbia's reclaimed province. A corresponding likely shift in the ethnic balance, while regrettable in principle, may well prove to be unavoidable in practice.

Posted by: Maximos / 1:34 PM