Reply #10: Kosovo's not a shining success. [View All]

[Igel]

It's been a UN protectorate for 6 years, and still is "occupied". At least one brigade of National Guard are there (overseas deployment, no clear deadline for leaving).

Ethnic strife was largely resolved by ethnic cleansing, with destruction of numerous old churches and monasteries. The minority Serbs that are left still haven't gotten a proposal from the majority that doesn't treat them like West Bank Palestinians in "Greater Israel."

Those that were engaging in violence for independence have largely been rewarded. And threaten more violence unless their demands are met.

Unemployment is still unconscionably high, the politics are still a bit unsettled, the economy's mostly a wreck.

The success has been getting others (for their own political reasons) to pick up responsibility.