>Where IMO democrats and marxists would differ from NATO, is that we would
>see this as only happening in a much wider context in which many measures
>were being fostered to promote the recovery of civil society, and in
>particular democratic economic initiatives of a cooperative nature. That,
>after all is what is in the most immediate interests of the people
>currently living in Kosov whatever their individual history and subjective
>loyalty, and psychological trauma.
If memory serves, this is the sort of thing Rugova (the leader Kosovars had actually elected) was on about - until some concerted escalation on the part of some foreign-funded troublemakers helped put an end to it. I don't pretend to *know* that the KLA was the side to turn a salvageable unpleasantness into an all-out civil war (based on much of its leadership's demonstrable far-right-wing prejudices, power-lust, rank nationalism, and foreign encouragement - I stress I do not think this true of all who came to fight in their colours), because I don't really know how bad things were when Rugova came to 'power', but I know it's a big part of the story ...
Cheers, Rob.