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[Visar Belegu]

Son,
I am writing this despite everything that my good senses tell me but I'll 
not be too kind this time so I won't share too much.  I trust you won't make 
such statments about accomplished persons such as Noli just because you read 
a damn book or two.  While I did not read Puto's book, I think it is fairly 
well excepted that Noli did lead the Albanian delegation in the League of 
Nation when Albania was admitted to this organization in 1920, which does 
offcially make him a diplomat.  However, as I noted a person can be a much 
more effective diplomat through accomplishmets in the real world, whether 
they be in poetry, science, or whatever. Of course, I say this without 
taking anything away from Konica.

Generally, I prefer to stay on the positive side but I tell you, when it 
comes to the jokers I mentioned, it is all bad. There are other people in 
Kosova besides those though so it's not all bad.

March what?! You mean the events that lead to the death of 19 people most of 
which were Albanians; the events that lead to the burning of Serbian homes, 
all of which are being rebulit from the budget of the government of Kosova.  
While it is hard to excuse these types of events, do I need to remind you of 
what the Albanian population of Kosova has been through?! Almost a million 
refugees and about 12,000 dead in about three months, and who knows how many 
homes burned and were vandalised with no one to pay for their rebuiding.  
There were people that lost everthing they owned, even worse they lost their 
family members and they came home to see Serbs being guarded in Kosova while 
they had to live in burned homes.  Let me just point out, that if something 
like that happened to me, March 19 would seem like a party.  Out of 12,000 
that died or thousands that lost homes, how many people went on a killing 
sprees or bombed Serb homes!  See it is easy to put labels on people such as 
IMMATURE or anything else but living through such things gives you a 
different prespective.

One thing we do agree on is that Kosova should be recognized as an 
independent state by Israel and other countries.

One thing we should not mistake is me selling myself as an enlightened 
fellow. I've piled on enough years in this world to learn that those 
claiming to be "enlightened" have either not accomplished enough to satisfy 
their egos or they just need to put the pipe down.  Go back and read what I 
said, get a sense of humor, and then you'll see that I wrote "political 
science" which as we all know comes a little short of real science. 
Seriously though relax, my point was that we should inform the youth that 
they can serve their country just as well by writing books on issues they 
are experts on rather then writing books on other books they have read. The 
'I know best!' or the 'Albanian traditional arrogance. . .pseudo-communist' 
I'll ignore that since it irritates me.

Diplomacy is very important and even I realize this.  However, we seem to 
differ in what constitutes efficient diplomacy.  I prefer to think people 
should get work at what they do best and if called upon they can serve their 
country.  What they should stay away from is getting degrees with hopes of 
becoming "ambassadors" or "presidents" or "members of parliment" if for 
nothing else because that shit numbs the mind.