To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear editors: Dennis MacShane's recent New Statesman article ('Russia's Veto over Kosovo' http://www.newstatesman.com/200708160015) makes the ludicrous statement that "like with the English centuries-long suzerainty over Ireland, Serbs find it hard to admit that the time has come for Kosovo to follow Croatia and Slovenia in freeing itself from Belgrade's tutelage." Whether or not Kosovo should be made an independent state is open to debate, and Mr MacShane can forward any opinion on that he likes. The issue is how he supports his arguments. To equate one global empire's invasion of a totally different country - an island separated clearly by a large body of water, no less - with Serbia's claim to a region in which significant marks of its historic presence go back almost 1,000 years, is so asinine that it astonishes me that it escaped your scrutiny. Besides, I might add that the continued British military occupation of Ulster indicates that the British have hardly "admitted" that "the time has come" for them to leave. This appears to be a case of the donkey tacking the target onto his own rear end. Sincerely Christopher Deliso, Director www.balkanalysis.com
