Onde os fracos não têm vez

Charles Simic comenta, na última edição da New York Review of Books, a turbulenta gênese do Estado kosovar:

The decision of the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, and a number of other countries to break with international law, which regards the territorial integrity and sovereignty of states as sacrosanct, and to permit Albanian separatists in Kosovo to declare independence from Serbia was an act so extraordinary in international relations that it had to take place outside the United Nations, where its illegality would have been hard to justify. The excuse given for this initiative is that the ethnic cleansing and humanitarian catastrophe caused by Serbia in 1999 exempted the countries that hurried to recognize Kosovo on February 17, 2008, from the rule stipulating that international borders can be changed only with the agreement of all parties.

Para ótima análise de todo o processo, ler "The Troubled Birth of Kosovo". Curioso - curiosíssimo - é notar o "silêncio respeitoso" da seleção de países acima mencionada a respeito de questões igualmente cortantes, no que tange à soberania e à integridade territorial, tais como as de Chechênia, Tibet, Taiwan... [DBL]