After Kosovo, Where?

Here are the preposterous David Miliband and the despicable Bernard Kouchner banging the old, old drum for the never-ending dismemberment of Yugoslavia.

Of course, the idea of Kosovo as an sovereign state is completely preposterous, and Russia will rightly veto any attempt to give effect to it. But if it happened, then would even that be the final dismemberment of independent, multi-ethnic, Socialist Yugoslavia? Somehow, I doubt it. After all, if Kosovo can become a state, then anywhere can.

In fact, when (in accordance with current trends) the "free" market has produced a Muslim majority in the former Metropolitan Counties of South and West Yorkshire, will they be entitled to secede from the United Kingdom? The Kosovo "Liberation" Army, reflecting the region's history, is a striking cross between the "militant Islam" of the Pennines and its antagonists in the BNP or Combat 18: black-shirted Wahhabi Holocaust-deniers who smuggle the Taliban's heroin into Europe.

For that matter, when (in accordance with current trends) the "free" market has produced a Hispanic majority right along the American border with Mexico, will those areas be entitled to secede from the United States? And what of a number of cities in France, which are or very soon will be predominantly Muslim and non-Francophone?

If not, why not?