a view of Kosovo

[Chris Burford]

At 17:52 03/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
>The eXile's Mark Ames reports from Kosovo 
><http://www.exile.ru/ames/ames102.html>:
>
>>The province is filthy, ugly, completely polluted by NATO ordinance, run 
>>by half-wits and thugs, soaked in blood and doomed to be the permanent 
>>asshole of Europe, a stain on the Balkans.
>>
>>I can't wait to get the fuck out.
>>
>>It's incredible to me that so much blood and so much bile could be 
>>spilled over such a pile of shit that passes for a province. But 
>>Europeans are like this, they're weird, no, insane when it comes to land. 
>>It's so grotesque that it's almost comical. It reminds me of the jail 
>>scene in that Woody Allen movie Love And Death, when Woody's father pulls 
>>a dirt clod from out of his ragged overcoat, points at it urgently, and 
>>rasps, "Land, my son! Land is the most important thing. When I die, I'll 
>>give you this land. Don't ever sell it! It's ours, our land!"
>>
>>Here, they'd kill you, your family, your friends, and every genetic trace 
>>of DNA extant over that one dirt clod. By next week, we'll know if the UN 
>>and NATO are next in line.

The population is close to a peasant existence still.

That will change forever in the next 30 years.

Chris Burford

London