So far, nearly half of Kosovo's 2 million Albanians have been expelled at gunpoint to Macedonia, Albania, and Montenegro. As NATO wrings its hands in anguish, and mobs of angry Serbs demonstrate in western capitals, some pundits still warn against intervention in Kosovo. He could have been writing of Kosovo. Nazism has made a second coming in Serbia. These are the voices of Munich, 1938.
War teaches geography.
Before these frightful weeks, hardly anyone could find Kosovo on a map. Less understood the historical background of this conflict. We must look back to understand today's horror. Albanians, once known as Illyrians, are a people of Germanic origins, akin to the ancient Greeks, whose ancestors settled the Balkan Peninsula during the Bronze Age. Albanian and Basque are Europe's oldest spoken language.