[PEN-L:6173] Re: Re: Re: partition?

[Ken Hanly <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I put this in to see if anyone reads my posts :) Actually, I did goof,
unintentionally. From your later post it would seem that some are actually in
the north and some in the south. I think the solution is simple. Milosoevic
should use the southern sites as shields for tanks or guns. NATO will destroy
both site (collateral damage) and military object (legitimate target).
Milosevich will be able to use this as ant-NATO propoganda but the way will be
cleared, so to speak, for a settlement :)
   Cheers, Ken Hanly
P.S Actually something like the above may already be happening since several
sites have sustained damage.
PS 2. I see  why Ricardo thought, I thought he had written the piece by Jeffrey
Beatty. The system automatically wrote "Ricardo Duquesne(sp)  wrote " since he
had sent it.


J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:

> Ken,
>       You may have unintentionally goofed and know
> better, but I said that the most important Serbian
> religious sites are in the SOUTH, not the north.
> This is why a partition of Kosovo-Metohija (rather
> than simply an independence or autonomy of
> Kosovo-Metohija as a whole) would be very
> difficult to pull off, as well as for other reasons that
> I have indicated in some other posts.
> Barkley Rosser
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Hanly <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 5:27 PM
> Subject: [PEN-L:6127] Re: partition?
>
> >I was the person who argued for partition not Max, indeed my post followed
> a
> >long critique of Max's position. Barkley told me to go look at a map and
> that
> >the important religious sites were in the north not the south. I didn't
> >specify a percentage division or where the borders should be drawn. The
> north
> >seems most plausible so that the main border would be with Serbia but I
> left
> >those matters up to the parties and any
> >third party mediator. The advantages of such a solution are: it obviates
> the
> >difficulty of settling people, many of whom hate each other with a passion,
> >right next door to one another; it offers something to both parties; it
> would
> >be a settlement made by the main parties in Kosovo and avoids an imposed
> >solution meeting NATO's aims but not those of the Albanians or the Serbs. I
> >can't see that any other plausible solution would to any extent satisfy the
> >aims of both Serbs and ethnic Albanians. The Albanians will not settle for
> >anything less than independence at this stage rather than autonomy. I doubt
> >that NATO will allow the status quo ante in which Serb control of Kosovo
> >continues. As in the Rambouillet agreements NATO would fashion Kosovo
> >according to its own lights. Disarmed Serbs and the KLA would just have to
> >sit back and take it. I would not be surprised if this were the ultimate
> >outcome, a NATO protectorate
> >run by the IMF, World Bank, bright-eyed planners of democracy, police, and
> law
> >courts none of whom
> >have any roots or understanding  of the area.
> >    Cheers, Ken Hanly
> >
> >Jim Devine wrote:
> >
> >> In the current issue of LEFT BUSINESS OBSERVER, Doug Henwood interviews
> >> Robert Hayden, the director for Russian and East European Studies at the
> U
> >> of Pittsburgh. Hayden says as one point:
> >>
> >> "The political solution, I've been arguing, has been the partition of
> >> Kosovo, in which the Serbs would keep the northern 20%, which has most of
> >> their important religious and symbolic sites, and the [ethnic] Albanians
> >> would get the rest as a protectorate, and probably joining the rest of
> >> Albania after about five years. There would have to be some provision for
> >> redrawing the borders of Macedonia."
> >>
> >> In addition to pointing to the interesting phenomenon of this this
> >> anti-imperialist author advocating something very similar to what Max
> >> favors, I ask: but aren't the Serbian "sites" in the south, not the north
> >> of Kosova/o? Isn't that what you said, Barkley?
> >>
> >> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
> >> http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
> >> Bombing DESTROYS human rights. US/NATO out of Serbia!
> >
> >
> >