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Besi, appreciate the response. I wish you would have produced points to counter what I said, but I will work with what you gave me.
To begin with the history, I have decided not to go into detail for obvious reasons of trying to get the relevant jist of the past several thousands of years in the region summed up in a couple paragraphs. However, contrary to your point about the Serbian historical arguments, I have mentioned the history before the middle ages; the Roman and subsequent Byzantine period. How far back do you want me to go? Not to mention the Illyrians were a primitive people comprised of various tribes. The Romans and Greeks brought modernized civilization to the region for the first time, conquered and dismantled any strongholds of Illyrians, and assimilated much of the balkan populations. Then, the Serbs were invited by the Greeks who controlled Kosovo at the time of the great migrations, and the Serbs set up a short-lived, but prosperous middevial kingdom. Then the ottomans came, muslims moved into the region including newly converted "Albanians" and Turks...and then the Serbs got kosovo and some of their Serbian lands back from the Ottomans as was overseen by the rest of the world.
Albania as a country and nationality as we know it today came about by 1913 I believe it was. Anyway, regardless, the Albanians were awarded lands that were held by Serb, Greek and Bulgar forces following the 2nd balkan war, as decided by the international community. It was not Serbias fault that the world powers awarded Albanians land disproportionate to the demographic situation, but Europes fault for seeking only to cut Serbias claim to any of the Adriatic coast (they came on as the strongest post-ottoman power in the balkans, and this caused concern to others with interests in the region at stake).
You mention that the Albanians living in Kosovo do not want anything to do with Belgrade, let alone be ruled by Serbs. My response is simple: the Serbs have offered such a high degree of autonomy for the province, that any ties with Serbia will have become a mere formality. This autonomy within Serbian borders is the best solution, as the Serbians would finally form a government and expedite their inevitable acceptance into the EU, along with Kosovo, allowing all nationalities in the multi-ethnic country of Serbia to reap the benefits of membership. Albanians would be in complete control of their own affairs, more so than under the current Ahtissari proposal which would permit the international community to keep both hands in Kosovo's proverbial cookie jar for a long time.
Albanians are just too blinded by their hate for Serbs and hunger for the idea of independence that they are willing to overlook the advantages of cooperatively working with the Serbs, who are tired from war and ready to move on, and showing that it is possible to bury the hatchet of a hundred year old civil war that has included brutal crimes equally commited by Albanians as well as Serbs.
While Serbs and Albanians have organized crime in common, the extent and conditions under which they do so are quite different. The KLA had funding from Bin Laden, and from the highly prominent ties with the heroin trade. Milosevic and his elite buddies from Serbia merely used organized crime to fatten their own pockets while their people continually suffered. The Serbian army was obviously the leftover army of Yugoslavia, not a terrorist organization. While Milosevic pursued the wrong way of dealing with the Kosovo problem, he was a power hungry dictator at the end of the day, and was reacting too harshly to Al-Qaeda in his back yard and did not represent the will of the people (by using violence); he simply gave the Serbs the one thing they have truly wanted the whole time, to keep their historic, cultural and religious ties with Kosovo, which is impossible in an independent nationalistic Albanian Kosova state. This has been shown in the way Kosovo Albanians have been acting towards both the Serbs and their respective historical sites, as well as towards the peacekeepers there who have often been the target of brutal Albanian impatience.
People like Ahtisaari want you to believe they have a better idea of right and wrong, but lets be honest, this situation isn't about right and wrong as such a thing is extremely subjective. He is merely a puppet pushing the globalist agenda for the balkans, and he and his buddies profit more from a supervised independence in which they milk any economy that might emerge; rather than keep investing money that Albanians pump right back out with the drug money from pushing over 70% of western european bound heroin, in their attempt at buying so-called justice. No side has a more just or more right cause, as infinite examples can be raised in favor of the Serb side, to which Ahtisaari will simply reply, "but it's unique so I can completely ignore one side's arguments this one time" and these are called negotiations? Compromise? I think not...elaborate please, and make reference to my points.
It is healthly for people from both sides of the argument to critically anyalyze their own points, rather than rely on the media to do it for them. We all learn more from hearing eachothers original thoughts, and as an American educated person, I wish to bring some light on the fact that some of us actually read history, rather than rely on politicized media to push their agenda and summarize the history of today's crisis region which needs to be bombed or invaded.
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