NATO is willing to precision bomb your swords back into plowshares
As negotiations on the final status of Kosovo approach their deadline with no result, NATO is warning that it plans to keep all 16,000 troops in the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo in place, and will brook no violence toward anyone in the disputed province. This follows on the heels of saber-rattling rhetoric from within the Serbian government:
An adviser to Serbia's prime minister ratcheted up the rhetoric Thursday, telling Serbian state television his country would defend its sovereignty "using all means" at its disposal.
"The state has no recourse other than war when someone does not respect the U.N. Security Council," Aleksandar Simic, an adviser to Vojislav Kostunica, told state television.
Although America backs independence for the largely Albanian Kosovo, other European countries, faced with their own separatist movements, are not so hep to the idea.
On a tangential note, the CNN article I'm about to cite refers to Kosovo, later on in the text, as a "country." Although it's nothing particularly new for an American news outlet to be sloppy, I do wish they'd be a little more careful when it matters. People from nations with controlled (rather than, say, cowed) news reporting agencies are inclined to read things like that as official statements of policy. Now, in this case, Kosovo as a nation pretty much is our national policy, but I don't think that's why the CNN article uses that language. They're just being careless.