kosovo and castro

Hello,

I am deeply interested these days in the whole Kosovo thing. Can't really explain why. For those of you who don't know this is what it is as explained to a friend of mine (sorry Cari): in Serbia (which used to be part of Russia but broke away and is still allied with Russia) there is a little providence called Kosovo. This has its own government since it was attacked when we were just wee things. Anyway it has been kind of part of Serbia but not really ever since. It also has been under the watch of the UN so that Serbia ( by the way the people there are called serbs) doesn't pick on Kosovo. Well Kosovo has a large Albainian population. 90% of kosovo which is 2 million people are catholic or muslim. Anyway Kosovo was like fuck this shit not really being our own country and the US helped stop the fighting in the past so we are kind of like their friend so we are going to declare our independance and break away from Serbia. Well as all of our history classes have taught us declaring independance isn't really a well excepted thing by the mother country. Serbia wanted to do something about it but they have like no say in the UN and they don't want to provoke the UN so they ran to their allie Russia who is part of the UN. Russia was like (in russian accecnt) fuk das hoes! and called an emergancy meeting ot the UN security councill and said the way they broke away was illegal. But nothing really came from this meeting. America being a simpathetic nation wants to support Kosovo but also doesn't really want to fuck with Russia because well we have a history. Well as you may or maynot know to actually be considered a country after declaring independance a few other countries have to say that you are indepandant (which I mean come on what the fuck is that law? it seems very wishy washy). Well the european union got together and most of them (well our allies at least) said kosovo is its own country and then the US said it was too because hey our allies did it so if Russia starts fucking with them we are in this anyways. Russia and Serbia haven't responded yet but I think it will be a big UN issue/debate, but might get underscored in the US by Castro stepping down. It won't turn out to be too big of a thing because Kosovo is a third the size of belgium. But when the ethnic Albainians were celebrating the independance they not only were waving albainian flags but also US flags (though this might have been to get us on their side in this whole thing because who the fuck doesn't want America looking out for them when they declare independance). As it stands UN troops and international police are still their but working over time because the serbs are a little ticked and ended up bombing the US embassy but they really didn't get that close to it so the builing is pretty much ok and no one was hurt. Thats pretty much it in a nut shell.

Let me know what you all think of this by leaving a comment. Feel free to do your own research this is just my very biased opinion.



Castro, Castro, Castro. What are we to do. We spend years trying to take him out, we even try killing him but aparently he is a little more crafty than Saddam because it never worked. Well very early today Castro suposidly sent out a letter saying that because of his old age and poor health he will step down. The US was like hell yeah, since we couldn't take him out we just waited until he was too old and he took himself out. The only catch here is that he is handing his title down to his brother, who lets face it may be more of a wack job than Castro. His brother is 76 however so if we don't like him we can just wait a few years, because apparently the Castro family can't leave politics of a barely surviving socalist country alone even if they have to control the country from hospital beds with tri-focals and hearing aids and dialasis.



Well all of this is if you believe that Castro is even alive, which most conservatives these days are doubting. They think he is dead because well, we haven't seen him in person in half a year. All of the evidence that he is still alive is in the form of letters and photographs. Conservatives say that these can be doctored up, which they can, and that Castro's younger brother is making them so that Castro seems alive so his accent to power is easier. My opinion is that at this point Castro being alive or dead is a moot point. Really he has stepped down so let him retire or rest in peace. We need to start worrying about his brother and also making a campaign to over throw the Castro family dictatorship. No don't get me wrong, this doesn't nessecarily mean implimenting democracy, it just means getting someone reasonable in the possision of power. Again please I love disscussing this stuff so let me know what you think.



I think Kosovo and Castro might be too simular of words for Bush and this could really get him fucked up. This could be fun. He should be making a speech soon in the next few days seeing as he has actually left the country and will be back and feel over shadowed by the primaries and the corresponding canidates. I really would like to hear Bush say that he supports McCain because then no one will vote for him.



I also would like to hear the canidates views on Castro and Kosovo. They will, however, ignore these issues along with the US debt to mainly China and how they sujest minimizing if not eliminating that debt so that one day China doesn't just call in our debt and we are left fucked over and completely broke, if even that would pay for it, making China more of a super power. Or how about the recession that many economists think we are in and the downward spiral that may soon follow. Are we really, even under the Bush administration, just going to ignore it and hope it goes away? This is not ok. Give me government works, give me anything but war. War is supposed to spark the economy but lets face it every one we are in a war and a ressecion and just going down. We need action and fast. This could mean ending the war. We have heard all of the canidates views on the war, and many want to bring the troops home soon. I, while against the war, am not sure this will help. If we leave before Iraq has legs to stand on it will fall into some other dictators hands and we will be back where we started. The problem is that we have given Iraq plenty of time to set up their own government and find their own diplomatic legs to stand on. We have been training their army, but few want to join the army. They want to lean on the US for as long as they can. We need to start showing them they need to learn how be their own independant country again. This is done by the slow but steady withdrawl of troops. Just because we pull some troops and some violence breaks out, doesn't mean we have to send those troops back. We need to tell the Iraq army to start taking care of it. We need to put out those add campains inspiring the Iraq people to fight for their country. We continue to withdraw until we have only a few hundred troops and army trainers there. Then we leave and let them know we are watching and will help when absolutly neccesary. Just like parents have to do with their children. We then have an allie that won't drain our economy and spirits. This plan is in the best of hopes, and thus is flawed but I think the idea is sound.



Sorry for those who thought this was too political and boring. I get like this sometimes.



Ta Ta.