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Entry: Kosovo on the Thames Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/kosovo_on_the_thames#17442 Post contents: John, no hard feelings.I feel the real question is what will the Vatican do? It was understandable when they spearheaded the recogniztion of Slo and Croatia, together with Austria and Germany. In the case of Bosnia, their behavior was already questionable. However, if the Vatican recognizes Kosovo, I, for one, will be personally disappointed. If this happens, we should all stop talking about Christian understanding and ecumenism. ps It's difficult to talk of a 'Greater-Serbian Yugoslavia' when the Croat Communist dictator Tito ruled Yugoslavia for 40 years. He split the Serbian republic into three parts - two autonomous provinces given to national minorites - Kosovo (Albanian) being one of them. Also, during the old Kingodm of Yugoslavia, which lasted between the two world wars, Croats were awarded the semi-indepent Croat Banovina. If this was a greater Serbian project, it sure was a self-undermining one. I will remind you that Croats, allies of the Central powers, did not have to pay reparations after WWI, because they were admitted into the newly created Yugoslavia. Sent at: 2009 01 08