Independence

[oh2gra]

There is some strange brew going on in the Balcans.
I hope the rest of europe will be safe if something really bad happens.



-Aren't yöu Arian?
_ No, I'm vegetarian.

Charles Chaplin in "The Dictator"

[W3MIV]

I share your concern. It is time, however, that the Balkans shake out their differences and difficulties without intervention and interference. These problems stem from the Congress of Vienna, and were exacerbated by the Versailles Treaty, then Soviet hegemony -- all of which "settlements" were imposed without any regard whatsoever for the national and "tribal" realities on the ground. It all has been festering for almost two centuries, and now the boil must burst one way or the other.