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Clearly the times are difficult for all the world may it be for North American automotive workers, areas of conflict in Africa, or just the less fortunate. But to have so harsh of times that you stand back and watch what you stand for what your heart believes in get torn away from someone who not only tears it away but looks onward as you suffer from you broken beliefs, your heart no longer belonging to you but some stranger who has no disregard for its safebeing. There is no other way to decribe what is happening to Serbia as a nation and it’s people whose hearts are being torn away from them never to be see again. It is am absolute disgrace that people support kosovo becoming independent especially any Canadians, like myself, who are against the seperation of Quebec. Any person that is against Quebec becoming an independent nation should no doubt support Serbia and their struggles to ensure Kosovo remains apart of Serbia. For those who would say otherwise would be flamboyantly declaring themselves hipocrites.
For those who are American picture this, if New England, the first area of the glorious United States of America to ever be settled by english settlers, who had, against all odds, defeated the greatest military force of the time, were to became an independent nation because of immigrants. Immigrants coming into New England, the most historical piece of America, the birthplace of the U.S.A., surely you would react to its separeation if you had any pride to be an American, any loyalty to your homeland, your birthplace.
This is why Kosovo should not become a nation but remain apart of Serbia. It is only right that the heart of a nation the heart amongst yourselves remain apart of you and not to people who ar tyig to desperately tear it from before you, watching you suffering in all states of being.
Kosovo is an indenpendent state.