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Getting U.S. troops out of Kosovo may start to look like an increasingly attractive idea in Washington, because the NATO forces sent to keep a cold peace may soon find themselves caught in a hot war. Four Serbian policemen were reported killed and several wounded with heavily armed Albanian guerrilla units inside Serbia Wednesday, while a bomb blast at the Pristina residence of Yugoslavia's representative in Kosovo killed one man and wounded another. The renewed attacks coincide with mounting frustration among more nationalist Kosovar Albanians that the political changes in Belgrade, and the rapprochement with the West those have...
...corruption of the Milosovic era but voted for a candidate of equal nationalist fervor and hence retained the ideas we all abhor and condemn. The West, which has for so long rejected Milosovic, now has embraced (rather too quickly) both a man who embodies the darker aspects of Serbian ultranationalism and a nation that still believes in it. Have Western leaders so quickly forgotten what that means? IVAN FARINA Sandycove, Ireland...
...extremely disappointed in the way the U.S. government views Serbian nationalism. Why is it different from American nationalism? U.S. officials are extremely hypocritical in celebrating Kostunica's victory. They simply want to wash their bloody hands of the war and of NATO bombings in Kosovo and Yugoslavia that caused human casualties and severe destruction of Serbian infrastructure. U.S. officials can claim they acted because of Milosevic's aggression. But deep down, all Serbs know the U.S. government could not care less about their well-being and struggle for democracy. ANA MIRKOVIC Vancouver...
...easier when the Croatian and Serbian nationalists in Bosnia were just puppets of their mother states, because then the international community was able to tackle the problem directly with Belgrade and Zagreb. But the Dayton Accord cut the bonds to a large extent between the mother states and ethnic communities in Bosnia. So that's created an irony now where Croatian and Serb nationalism in Bosnia is more vibrant than in Croatia or Serbia. Dayton is now a kind of iron lung for nationalism in Bosnia...
Such signs of moderation will hearten diplomats in the U.S. and Europe, who have downplayed Kostunica's frequent attacks on Western policies in the Balkans and his refusal to cooperate with the U.N.'s war-crimes tribunal. "He wants the Serbian people to be proud," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told TIME, "but he is not an ethnic killer. He is not a former communist, and he believes in the rule of law." And while Kostunica doesn't hide his disdain for U.S. officials, he is eager to normalize relations with the E.U. and join European institutions such...