Why Shouldn't The U.S. Intervene In Kosova?

My response to Patrick Buchanan's article from the NY Post.

After reading an article in the October 3rd edition of the New York Post by Patrick J. Buchanan entitled "Why is Kosovo Our War?", I was very frustrated when he asked "Why does Serbia not have a right to send its army to prevent the cradle of that country from being ripped away?" Serbia was the one that ripped Kosova away from the Albanians after Serbian leaders and Milosevic stripped Kosova of it's autonomy in 1989 and began it's widespread policy of ethnic cleansing, mass murder and rape. And before Mr. Patrick Buchanan starts comparing the situation in Kosova to how some states seceded during the civil war, he should be aware of some significant events in Kosova's past history which he obviously is unaware of. I want to give him some brief facts about Kosova which he might have not known when he associated the situation there with the United States civil war or the south's war to break free of the union.

First of all, Kosova has always been an independent entity, geographically, ethnically, and administratively. Under Tito's Yugoslavia, Kosova was autonomous. Autonomy was granted to Kosova. Kosova automatica

If the United Sates or NATO or the U.N. wanted to help the Kosovar Albanians, they should stop wasting their time talking at those peace conferences which have not done anything except give Milosevic more time to go on with imposing attrocities against Albanians. So he goes on killing a few here and a few there. Then when the international community discovers a mass grave, he quickly pulls his troops out of the area and tells everyone that his troops are withdrawn from the region. The west must be really dumb for not noticing that there's a war criminal right under their nose.

During the past ten years, Milosevic and the Belgrade regime has imposed a "soft" but systematic repression which has deprived two million Albanians of their rights. How are you supposed to live under a government which enslaves you and denies you of all your rights? How are you supposed to live under a government that makes your people, two million individuals suffer persecution and death daily? You can't. There are no legal or moral arguments that would persuade Albanians to accept and remain under Serbian domination. After the bitter experience of the past decade, Albanians should have the chance which the Serbs were unable to make use of, to create their own states and build tolerant and democratic societies. Those that do not justify this decision justify hegemony, expansionism, colonialism, and apartheid.

The pictures of the brutally murdered Albanians in two mass graves which were released over the weekend speak for themselves. But how many mass graves have to be discovered before someone actually does intervene? As a seventeen year old Albanian-American student in the United States, it is a shame to watch my relatives in Kosova die when they are fighting for the same ideas that the founding fathers of the American Constitution stressed when they broke away from Britain and yet the United States looks away. I came to the United States because the Serbian government denied me the right to have an education simply because i was Albanian. The Albanians that wanted to have an education would have to learn about Serbian history and would have to speak and write in the Serbian language. But after Milosevic stripped Kosova of it's autonomy, you weren't even allowed to have an education if you were Albanian. We had to create underground schools which was the only way for the Kosovars !

Hello!! Wake up!!! Everytime after a mass grave is found, the inter

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