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...democracy is the precondition for rehabilitating Serbia, that won't necessarily end all of the Balkan troubles: Slobodan Milosevic may be a despot and a demagogue, but the troubling reality is that most of the Serbian opposition accepted the principle that their nation should fight to hold on to Kosovo...
...Kosovo, in fact, showed the danger in simply exporting an American conception of democracy into a situation with a very different history. The U.S. led NATO to war against ethnic cleansing, projecting, as an alternative, the notion of a democratic multiethnic Kosovo. Convinced of his own vision of a peaceful Balkan melting pot - as implausible as that sounded to long-term analysts of the region - President Clinton lashed out at anyone who dared to view the conflict instead through the politically incorrect lens of centuries of unresolved tribal hatreds. And yet, a year later, it's increasingly clear that...
...have anointed the Kosovo Liberation Army as the White Knights of the Kosovo war, but war crimes prosecutors aren't convinced - and that could put NATO on a dangerous collision course with the men it installed in power in the breakaway province. The Hague Tribunal, which last year indicted President Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, announced Tuesday that it is currently investigating five cases of atrocities against Serbs allegedly committed by members of the KLA. And observers believe that if charges are pursued, they may involve some of the now-disbanded movement's senior leaders, who currently occupy key positions...
...Kosovo analysts have long sensed the hand of the KLA in a continuing campaign of violence against the territory's remaining Serbs, and tensions between the organization and NATO have reached their highest point since the war following the discovery, two weeks ago, of massive arms caches in the Drenica valley, a KLA stronghold. Although the former guerrilla movement's leaders have denied any knowledge of the caches, which would be in violation of undertakings to hand their weapons over to NATO, it's unlikely that large amounts of weapons would have been stockpiled without a green light from some...
...week at a hotel used by officials of the international community was seen by some as a warning from former KLA elements to NATO to back off, following the discovery of the arms caches. Now, Washington and its allies may be set to learn the hard way that while Kosovo had no shortage of bad guys and innocent victims, the "good guys" may have been miscast...