What is NATO Waiting For?

As long as there are inexplicable crimes, unidentified victims, and unnamed criminals, Kosovo will remain an unsolved problem. Common sense doesn't help. That is how in the human family, conducting policy and diplomacy never came in contact with common sense, except on large banners. In spite of that, in the part of the world that is proud of organized schooling and educational systems, their children learn the virtues of loving the truth, honesty, and civilized behavior that can be precisely translated as a good up-bringing, while children everywhere in the world and from always in history, grow up in the schizophrenic circumstance of choosing between ideals and reality. Just as Bill Clinton, president of the only remaining superpower will be remembered as the one who smoked but didn't inhale, his contemporary Bozidar Filic, for now known only in the local area, will be remembered for the statement that he learned about the massacre of local residents in Gornji Obrinj from the foreign media because "nobody reported it to us." In the latter case, it is about Serbia's MUP spokesman for Kosovo and Metohija, the same one who, just three weeks ago, attributed the discovery of about ten civilian deaths in Klecka and Rznic to previous operative work and the timely discovery of police professionals.

Volumes and volumes of books could be written, libraries could be filled , and universities could be founded on the parallel of "Serbia" and "World" stupidities. Nevertheless, that won't eliminate the banal and so human question: why is all this hapening. Why is it that the discovery of crimes committed against about ten "multi-ethnic civilians" (Albanians, Serbs, Roma, children, women, and the aged) in Klecka and Rznic didn't provoke hardly any attention from foreign observers and media while Gornji Obrinja, with it's "single-ethnic" casualties (Albanians, children, and women), attracted the world's consternation? How does military-police intervention in Kosovo threaten the stability of the region, the UN, and the new world order (by the grace of the post-bipolar world), but the publicly proclaimed political aims of "terrorists" and "separatists", according to some "a liberation army", "freedom fighters", and "rebels", according to others with the interference of a large number of third parties; that deterring effect doesn't produce? That must be the reason some believe that the "Serbian" case exceeds the threshold of tolerance of the system in which the truth is only a function of the way in which witnesses formulate it. Any kind of theory of anti-Serb plots isn't necessary in order too demonstrate to ourselves the basis of the aforementioned belief. Otherwise, how else to explain the statement by Vuk Draskovic, by his own account the most circulated author in the Balkans, that the threat of military intervention by NATO forces leaves us (Serbs) a choice between two possibilities: to commit suicide or that they destroy us. The same day his successful competitor in battle Vojislav Seselj, from the Parliament and from the position as vice-president of the Serbian government, ordered citizens to deal with those who are within range, since he can’t  implement his earlier threat of bombing Vienna, Rome, and London. That is, those who aren't so sure of a megalomaniac repetition of the government's statement that Albanians in Kosovo enjoy all civil and human rights exceeding world standards. With regard to these rights, the thing that those who announced the beginning of bombardment of some 100 sites in Yugoslavia by the end of next week don't see are the banal (here used in the sense of evident, simple, daily) facts that in the same way Albanians from Kosovo equally share the same rights with all remaining citizens of Serbia. As much as this regime is truly democratic, its creator Slobodan Milosevic noticed just six months ago that in Kosovo there has been for over a decade of "parallel" state, "parallel" authority, "parallel" education, and well finally a "parallel" military. Or was there, perhaps, in such conditions something useful (in terms of politics and “business”).

The inability of the present government and its parasites to seriously solve any problem, except the production of even greater ones, is infamous from long ago. Similarly, the effects of international sanctions and military intervention are known: there, everyone to one from "world enemy No. 1: still sits in it's place, after every bombardment all the more respected by representatives of international law and the champions of using force in fighting for a better future for humanity. The heads of NATO perhaps have that experience in mind: what if bombardment cements forever the "Balkan butcher" on the throne? >From the standpoint of the need to do anything, that question is, of course, senseless. In the first ten years of it's existence, the "post-bipolar" world hasn't demonstrated much more than human characteristics ("too human") to whip those weaker than itself, just as was the case when in giving tacit consent to Milosevic to direct order on Kosovo, leaving the dirty work to local "pillars of peace and stability”. When matters get out of control, the world will strike efficiently, surgically precisely and not only with a clear but calm conscience. At the beginning mentioned, in such completely undesirable tasks,
Common sense continues to remind us in vain that the victims of murder don’t care whose victims they are or for what higher purpose they were sacrificed. As long as there are inexplicable crimes, unidentified victims, and unnamed criminals, Kosovo will remain an unsolved problem.