Pristina, Kosovo
The U.S. declined Kosovo’s offer to send several hundred police to Iraq or Afghanistan, The New York Times reported this week. The Kosovars said they’d be perfect for the job because they are Muslims with experience in policing a war-torn region. Pro-U.S. feelings are very strong in Kosovo because of the U.S.-led military intervention that stopped the Serbian crackdown there in 1999. But State Department officials said Kosovo, which is still technically part of Serbia but overseen by the U.N., should concentrate on nurturing its own fledgling democracy.
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