[PEN-L:6119] RE: partition?

[sawicky@xxxxxxxxxx (Max Sawicky)]

> 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?


I've taken Barkley's word that partition is impractical.  I have
never uttered support for partition.  Partition aside, as far as
the quote goes, Hayden's solution is simply independence for
Kosova.  While I agree with this, getting there, about which the
quote says nothing, is all the fun.

One partition I do support would run horizontally, just above
Slobo's collar.

mbs