TO ALEX
Yes, you are absolutely right. I stand corrected on both counts. There is no Kosovar, you are right. FYI, I am not from the region and I made a bad reference. Shows you how media can influence one's mind and vocabulary.

You are also correct about KLA being the current bunch in change of "government". This entire Kosovo "independence" is due to an internal debate of NATO partners and the mess in it. Also Washington wants to have some thing positive on its resume, given the disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq.

To YTS

Thanks for your comment.

But, please, please, do not ever again use the term "KOSOVAR(s)". There is no such thing as Kosovar (nation)! In Kosovo, province of Serbia, live: Albanians, Serbs, Romas, Montenegrians and other nationalities. Term "Kosovars" was intentionally imposed by the US and EU, just for the sake of bluring things up. They thought that unilateral, self-declared independence by Kosovo Albanians would go much easily if they cover their ethnicity by the term "Kosovars". Why would they do that? It's very simple. Don't forget that Albanians already have their own national state - Albania! So, Kosovo would be SECOND Albanian national state. Does anybody know any other nation in the World who has TWO national states?

As for the KLA. Current Albanian government is not just KLA's rump - they are KLA!
If you haven't seen Dutch documenary "The Albanian Brooklin Connection" yet, please follow the link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6557813549136654170
Everything about mr.Taci (current Kosovo's Albanian "prime-minister"), Mr. Ceku (former PM), Mr.Haradinai (Former PM) and other US-Albanian KLA "politicians", will be perfectly clear after just 50 minutes of this documentary. Off course, just for those who have open eyes and open hearts.
Please, bear in mind that this is not just an Serbian propaganda docu. It was made by Dutch TV, and Dutch were very well known for their hardline stance against Serbia.

Dr. Ettefagh is right .

Kosovo Secession is the most deadly and fatal weapon to kill National State concept .
The Nations right of self determination , was always highly regarded by politicians , theoreticians and , outmost, by the Nations of the World , from the mid XVIII –th Century onward, as the fundament of human rights .

Secession was always regarded as illegal and immoral politically act.
Secession was bad !

Now, the USA , who passed once through the Calvary of Secession War decided is just the right time for claiming clear voice ‘’Secession is Good ‘’ !

As long as the Leading Group of the United Nations did recognise Kosovo ‘s Secession , no one in the world can , from now on , call any secessionist movement as being Terrorist like, Marxist, Communist , Extremist , or what ever.
All secessionist movements are , form now on, quale -tale, equally good and right as they are same as good, or same as right as UCK, the Kosovar Liberation Army , is.
Can anybody deny this , or claim the contrary on international right legally accepted basis ?

Secession waiting list is actually endless.
Just consider how many languages are currently spoken worldwide in India , in SE Asia, in Africa , or in the Russian Federation. Practically, there are very few National States in the world that are not exposed, at least theoretically, to a form or another of secession, either on national, lingual , religious , or cultural basis.

@ MARINA PAPADOPOULOS

So, you some how agree with the revolt but then do you don't? Which is your point in your comments?

What is important is that Serbs revolted and decided to set for a different course. With American bankroll and assistance, or not. But now USA is out to punish them because they are not "changing" fast enough, or not exactly in the shape that USA wants?

Your name suggests you are Greek. Tell me if this rigid posture is or is not typical for the Balkans, including Greece.

I recall that all Greek people were creating a big dust-up in eart 1990s when Macedonia was an independent. I remember all of Greece was saying "Macedonia is always Greek". Now you say it is wrong for the Serbs? Come on! This rigid, stubborn mentality is the local setting, for as far back as you want to go in history!

Marina Papadopoulos -- your message is intelligent, comprehensive, and well-spoken. Thanks for sharing it.

You have correctly observed the issue.
The matter is an internal NATO discussion and the future of it. Americans are still treating Europe as children and want to force their way around.
So, they think they can resolve the deadlock of Kosovo by making a new country. They will be wrong.

Dr. Ettefagh's argument is sadly undermined by his thin knowledge of the facts. Serbs did not "revolt against their leader" because they saw the evil of Milosevic's policies, that fomented war and suffering across the Balkans in one war after another. They overthrew him because he LOST one war after another, because he failed to deliver on his rabid nationalist promises of a great and powerful Serbia that has crushed its enemies mercilessly and now rules on their lands. Rather than rising spontaneously, their opposition parties were bank-rolled and trained by the United States, and even to this day most Serbs are against the extradition of Milosevic to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, as that implies fault and guilt that most are still loath to accept. Serbia is not Germany in the 1960s: it has neither investigated nor accepted, nor repented and apologised for the crimes commited in its name and with its blessing. The proof is the 48 percent that voted for nationalist candidate Tomislav Nikolic in a presidential election on Feb 3. There are more Serbs who sympathise with Mr Nikolic's ideas but voted for liberal Mr Boris Tadic out of practical reasons, mainly fear that the EU would penalise Serbia if it elected a nationalist president. These people, and indeed the majority of Serbs, want to have their cake and eat it: keep mum (and unrepentant) on the crimes of the 1990s, and still be accepted with open arms into the European family.

ALEX-
Thank you. You are well informed.
This American observer seems to be stuck on attacking the writer. The subject is Kosovo, not Iran.

Any way, I tend to agree with the writer that multilateral organisations have been set up as a forum to stabilise and not destabilise. If the Kosovars are really committed to multi-ethnic societies, why do they want their own country?

The current government in Kosovo is the rump of the KLA-Kosovo Liberation Army, which was a terrorist organisation. The current administration in USA does not realise that.

To the American Observer:
You say:
"Actually, 1244 said that the Kosovars should have a right to vote and decide if they want to become independent or not. Clearly, the Kosovars want to be independent, and so 1244 supports them."

That is an utter lie. Have you ever red UN 1244?
If not, here it is:
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N99/172/89/PDF/N9917289.pdf?OpenElement

Not a single word about your "right to vote and decide..." gobbledygook.

Second:
Yugoslavia was a dictatorship. Communist dictatorship. But you forgot, intentionally, to mention who was the DICTATOR. His name was TITO. And he was half-Croat, half-Slovenian! And he fought WWI on Austro-Hungarian empire's side, against Kingdom of Serbia. And you were right. In Yugoslavia there were "ruling faction". As a matter of fact, there was TWO ruling factions - Croats and Slovenians. Tito hated Serbs from the bottom of his heart, and so much, that he created only one Autonomous Region in Yugoslavia - KOSOVO within Srbia (1966). He didn't create AR in Croatia for Italians, or AR in Slovenia for Germans and Austrians.
Those are hard facts.
No additional comments needed!

Ali says:

"Significant problems are tangled with an ill-conceived plan which is contrary to UN Security Council Resolution 1244."

American Observer replies:

Actually, 1244 said that the Kosovars should have a right to vote and decide if they want to become independent or not. Clearly, the Kosovars want to be independent, and so 1244 supports them.

Ali says:

"Some nineteen years later, the rapid disintegration of Yugoslavia is still a baffling thought."

American Observer says:

A 'baffling thought?' In English that phrase does not make sense, so I think you are trying to say that you still cannot understand why it happened. Of course, there is no mystery. The former Yugoslavia was a dictatorship. Like any other dictatorship, it was held together by lies and violence, and like any other dictatorship, it allowed the ruling faction -- in this case, the Serbs -- to gain unfair advantages over the other nationalities. The longer the dictatorship lasted, the more the majority stole, and the more the rest of society hated the regime, so the regime did not make the country stronger over time, the regime made it more unstable, like a spring wound tight until it was ready to explode. When the regime lost its monopoly of information and the ability to use force, the spring exploded, and the underdogs got as far from their rulers as they could. We saw the same thing happen in the former Soviet Union, and we will see the same thing happen in the People's Republic of China.

We will also see the same thing happen in the Iranian Empire. I don't think we will ever see 'France demand the reversal of the Louisiana Purchase'; but we should expect to see Eastern Kurdistan and Southern Azerbaijan demand independence from Iran. When that happens, America should support the freedom fighters and help them break free from Iran. Don't you agree?