Kosovo and the sham that will be an "Independent" state run by and for EU / NATO / UN state apparatchiks

"With their unfailing passion for the inconsequential and their knack for doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, NATO leaders appear determined to carve the province of Kosovo out of Serbia and grant it "independence." That they lack the physical, legal and moral power to bestow independent statehood to a part of a state that is neither a member of the E.U. nor NATO appears only to have emboldened them to use this issue to demonstrate Western resolve. "

A Saga of Injustice and Hypocrisy
The Absurdity of "Independent" Kosovo
By GEORGE SZAMUELY
Counterpunch 15/2/08 Read on

A detailed, fiercely argued and damning indictment of the policy that allows Kosovo to decalre independence. It is essentail to read this article to see how the approach of the Western allainace to Kosovo has been marked by sordid dishonesty and bad faith, supporting national self-determination and the right to secession in one place and territorial integrity in another, cheering on ethnic cleansing by one ethnic group and demanding war crimes trials for another.