Comment is free: Abandoned in Kosovo.

Guardian:

For almost a decade western attitudes to Kosovo have reinforced Oscar Wilde's adage that the truth is rarely pure and never simple.

In 1999, George Robertson, then Britain's defence secretary, claimed that Nato had undertaken a «fight for a downtrodden people and it has won». I've no doubt that forces controlled by Slobodan Milosevic were responsible for heinous crimes against the ethnic Albanian community that Robertson purported to champion. Yet there were other sections of Kosovo's population whose abject suffering that year was arguably just as serious and yet was considered far less worthy of our collective attention