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Albania secured statehood in 1912, but before the status of Kosovo could be resolved, the entire region was rocked, in quick succession by the First Balkan War (1912), the Second Balkan War (1913) and, for good measure, World War I (1914-18).
Last Thursday, in a speech at the National Defense University, President Clinton passionately disavowed the theory that ethnic slaughter is an incurable Balkan disease.
On the Balkan crises, see Tim Judah, The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Yale Univ.
But, she went on, "the airstrikes could not only provoke Serbian retaliation against NATO forces in Bosnia, but trigger ethnic conflict in Macedonia, which has a large ethnic Albanian majority," and a Balkan explosion would severely weaken NATO.
In the NYT lead, Democratic pooh-bahs whine that their spring fund-raising drive was stymied by the Balkan war and the Columbine massacre, each of which caused President Clinton's to cancel potentially lucrative events.