[PEN-L:6157] peacekeepers and partition

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

      More civilian dead and more massacres, ugh,
and now Vuk Draskovic is out in Belgrade for
advocating a UN peacekeeping force.
      Which gets us back to Yoshie's nice sounding
peace proposal allegedly issued by Belgrade.  Well,
yesterday the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry made it
clear that it will only accept unarmed civilian "peacekeepers'
and that NATO troops must withdraw from the border area,
although Chernomyrdin claims they will accept an
armed peacekeeping force.  We shall see.
       With respect to all the talk about partition, well,
maybe that will still happen, but it will be extremely
difficult and the sort of vague talk about a northern
zone for the Serbs (with their "monuments") and a
southern zone for the Albanians remains ridiculous.
Presumably Albanian zones would be centered on
where there are still Albanians and where they might
even have local control.  Well, reports indicate that the
KLA zones of control are not fixed and keep moving
around,  They have been strongest in Drenica in the
northwest and also in the northeast and in the far west
not far from the Serbian "Jerusalem" of Pec, which has
been ethnically cleansed.  Indeed all the big cities
(such as they are) have been largely cleansed of
Albanians, except for those still hiding in basements,
as has most of the south.  Any partition is either going
to be an artificial creation (NATO ground forces conquer
a section of Kosovo-Metohija and declare it an Albanian
enclave) or a bizarrely shaped entity without cities.
      BTW, Dennis Redmond now has an ally.  Right-wing
Republican Senatro Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has
just declared that the US is the "slave" of the Europeans,
although he was specifically referring to dealing with the
refugee situation.
Barkley Rosser