Kosovo Onward, With All Deliberate Speed

Ah...if we could just wait a few more months, everything would be okay, everything would be all right... And so the story goes.

Washington can afford to work patiently with the Security Council to get a broadly supported Kosovo resolution. Working the issue for a few more months will be more productive and more sustainable than a prematurely forced vote, and no one is being killed or oppressed in Kosovo to require urgent intervention. Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has signaled readiness to deal, affirming that Russia will not be “more Serbian than the Serbs.” The United States simply has too many important issues on which it needs to work with Moscow to let an artificial deadline on Kosovo poison the relationship.

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