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I think it's clear the Albanians and the Americans and their allies want to avoid a war here, otherwise they could have done this ealrier and ensured a Nikolic victory two weeks ago, which would have complicated matters a lot more than they already are.

The Americans currently running the foreign policy show do not have a good track record of reading such situations.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Tue Feb 19th, 2008 at 02:16:14 PM EST
I suppose being clueless as to the real issues is an impediment to a good policy, even if you desired the good policy to begin with.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
by NearlyNormal on Tue Feb 19th, 2008 at 03:41:34 PM EST
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I think it's clear the Albanians and the Americans and their allies want to avoid a war here..

'Course the US-etc doesn't want a major war - i.e. an  all-out great-powers conflict with nuclear Russia, they're perfectly happy to limit hostilities to the neo-Cold War they've been campaigning/pressuring/provoking for every whichaway, as that's sufficient to 1) keep the "western" defence-contracting establishment duly fattened and 2) keep US bases firmly implanted in Europe for the next few decades.

But as usual, the "West" certainly doesn't seem to have many qualms about starting off yet-another cute lil' "proxy war" at whatsoever cost to "insignificant others": US-Estonian-French troops have just forcibly fenced the Kosovan Serbs inside the neo-statelet after their (Gazan-type?) border-break with bulldozers and explosives.

"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami

by eternalcityblues (parvati_roma aaaat libero.it) on Wed Feb 20th, 2008 at 07:12:38 AM EST
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