I read your comments about who is responsible for the separation of Kosovo. I am not excusing some of the Serb policies about Kosovo. I also do not agree that outside countries decide how to divide countries into pieces.

My question to you is: how did you become a self proclaimed expert on the affairs of other states and of Kosovo in particular?

How would you like if some foreign entities decided that the population in California is Hispanic and therefore California should become independent of the US? Shouldn't the Americans have a say on that?

Demetri:

I read your comments about who is responsible for the separation of Kosovo. I am not excusing some of the Serb policies about Kosovo. I also do not agree that outside countries decide how to divide countries into pieces.

My question to you is: how did you become a self proclaimed expert on the affairs of other states and of Kosovo in particular?

How would you like if some foreign entities decided that the population in California is Hispanic and therefore California should become independent of the US? Shouldn't the Americans have a say on that?

I'll tell you what, chuckles: as soon as whitey uses U.S. Army regulars to start shelling open-air markets in East L.A., you come on over and set that up, ok?

Hitchens' article was great, and addressed precisely the "questions" your asinine post reasks. If you don't like the answer, well, that's just too bad. The Serbs may have had a historical claim, however tenuous, to the territory (as do, I'm sure, dozens of other ethnicities), and perhaps if they'd left it at that and carried on with a reasonable light touch (a reasonably light touch in this instance NOT consisting of a state-implemented and backed policy of civilian murder on a grand scale, at a bear minimum), then I would hazard to guess that Kosovo would still be a part of the rump "Yugoslav" republic, whatever that may mean, even today. They did not, however, and so they forfeit any such expectation.

Perhaps you're a Serb, Demetri, and that's why this is mystifying to you, but in the West, we do in practice subscribe to a very small and select set of human rights, chief amongst those being the right to live. You know, to draw breath and continue to exist, without another forcing sharpened steel implements of various types or sizes into your body and causing organ failure and death. That belief has trickled down, if you will, into a number of facets of modern life here. Beat your wife? Not only can she divorce you, you can get arrested. Smack your young children around too much? Here comes DHS to seize them from you. Enjoy your time in Chino with a 160kg cell-mate of dubious disposition. Like setting cats on fire, or inducing dogs to fight? You can lose not only your good name, but tens of millions of dollars and your freedom, believe me. Crazy, I know. But thems the breaks. Considering the United States, exclusive of the rest of NATO (who's members of course tend to share a certain distaste for indiscriminate slaughter), spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined, I suggest you get used to not having the final say over your country's affairs, if having the final say means engaging in the wholesale rape and murder of innocents. It's a damn shame about satellite tv and the internet, eh, Demetri? If only they weren't around, perhaps you guys would have had enough time to finish those mongoloids off, right?

All you genocide-apologists can burn in hell. Have a nice day.

I suppose Human Trafficking, drug cartels, Albanian mafia, KLA on the State Department and UN terrorist group list, Hashim Thaci who was in the KLA terrorist group murdering police and civilians, over 250,000 ethnic serbs, gypsy, roma, jews before 1999 now reduced to just over 100,000 serbs, the burning and destruction of churhces from the 13th/14th century and historical monuments by the KLA and albanian population over there all constitutes suscribing to human rights that the US ensues and supports?

The hypocrisy is too easy to find here with US and EU policy towards separting a sovereing country. Yes there was repression of Albanians and then repression of serb and other minorities there, but that does in no way constiute separating and granting independence to a ethnic majority in a province htat is part of a sovereign nation.....these things have got to split in a negotiated way, there is land, resources, churches, buildings, governments, people that have to be dealt with and negotiated.

Accrding to your flawed logic, Detroit should be able to secede from MI and the US because it is primarily 90% African and has been run by Africans for over 30 years and they have been repressed from the state and Federal governments for lack of money, good schools, their downtown and housing is horrible and can be called 3rd world, they have been neglected and have a high crime rate, high murder rate that can be argued that it is because of the whites not supporting this highly ethnic city of just less than a million. Or better yet, the whites left there should be able to secede because the city is so f'ing horrible. So it can secede based on human rights abuses, lack of funding, lack of attetnion, and so on and so on...the abysmal part of this is that other countries cannot just come in and attack other countries sovereignty and split it up. Yes it has been done, but sets a very horrible precedent and Hitchens is clearly wrong on this. Hitchens unfortunatley misses A LOT of points and strikes this up as part of his Trotskyite past and disfavoritism of Milosevic, but unveils his support and likes of other Fascist leaders Tudjman, Izetbegovic, Rugova, Thaci.....you cannot argue this declaration of independence is a just, lawful, logical and a morally right occurence, the arguments will keep falling flat just like the Gloabla warming alarmists arguments that are based on emotion and not on reason and logic.

@ krsto - they cannot understand what you are saying until they actually can see it with their own eyes. Unfortunately, only that way you can explain how Albanian extremism and KLA crimes looks like....

For others, who wants to see the "other side of the badge", please take a look at:

www.KosovoLiberationArmy.com (http://www.KosovoLiberationAr­my.com/ )

Anyone who can still support KLA and Albanian extremism after thoroughly went through this web site content, well I really don't know what to tell you.... visit a shrink or something....

Perhaps this is familiar to you...

<link>KosovoChurchDesecration2.wmv

How many churches did you treat like this?

Mmmmmmmm, Demetrius and krsto are the same guy 'KosovoJustice', brilliant!

To make us think that there are many sympathizers for their cause this is lost in advance.