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Alec, let's not forget Milosevic's rally in 1989 at Kosovo Pole on the 600th anniversary of the Serbian defeat by the Ottomans. Many were of this opinion after Marshall Tito's death in 1980: "Give it ten years at the most before the region will tear itself apart again". A bitter prediction, but sadly accurate. It has never taken much for the Balkans to break out into violence over the centuries ..... and will continue to do so until each generation stops teaching their hatreds to their children. This, to me, is the only lasting way out of the perennial cycle of violence and misery in the region, or in any other part of the world where ethnic, tribal, religious strife is rife.