Another scenario is if the guerrilla group enters a fire fight with the Serbs, decides they cannot win and flees the area for Kosovo. They could drop their weapons and run across the border. That would put U.S. soldiers in the middle. It is a complicated, precarious situation for U.S. troops and the Pentagon and White House officials are monitoring it closely. Almost every week, a presidential aide, general or political adviser visits the area.
Soldiers are aware that their area of responsibility is under the microscope.
As a small group of them sat in a bee-infested tent eating dinner last weekend, they admitted to loathing the attention. But many preferred the small outpost to a spot wedged between an ethnic Albanian town and a Serbian village because it fits closely to what soldiers are trained to do. For now, soldiers can only watch and wait to see what will happen next.