Source: Russia Today

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Do you think Kosovo Albanians should have an army?

I am not interested in Albanians' opinion, since their answer is clear enough. I want to hear the foreigners.

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if theyre going to be a sovereign nation then yes, but i think the US should stay out of it.

I think, as a state, they should eventually have an army. It could wait a little while though. We didn't want to have to keep NATO there forever. That's a big part of why statehood was declared it was either independence or giving them back to the Serbs.

On the note of trapping people inside I hope they're freely letting Serbs get out. Keeping them in wouldn't be doing anybody any favors.

Depends. Are they buying from American weapons dealers or is the US Govt giving it to them?


If they paying, fine by me.

Kosovo as an Independent Country so should have a standing Army, so should Albania and they should both join NATO IMO.

Exactly how I feel, why do we feel the need to get involved in something like this???

To help protect a newly born Democracy against the pan Russian-Serbian slavic pact - that would sufficate this new Democracy in its craddle if NATO was not there and it was not given the support it requires!

We've been involved since 1999. Giving them independence and an army is our way out.

Ideally they should buy the equipment. But if it lets us remove some of our equipment and forces it might be profitable for us to just give stuff to them. Plus you'd think we'd have some old stuff like Patton tanks sitting around we could give away.

This may be somewhat less necessary if we decide to build a big military base there. I don't know if it'd add much tactically considering what we already have but we seem to be happy to add more major airbases and if the situations sour with Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, or Turkey we'd be glad we had it. And we're getting at least a little flack from each of them.

Excellent point, more troops to Iraq and Afganistan to help complete the mission.


I am very disappointed that other NATO partners such as France,Germany,Italy,Spain etc etc are not committing front line troops to action in Afghanistan.

I blame the politicians in their homelands - not the service men and women theselves - I'm sure they would love a crack at the enermy !!!!

If all NATO members pulled their weight so to speak, the US wouldn't have to scrifice so much for World Democracy, they do and respect to them.