what secretary rice had to say about serbia

u.s. secretary of state condoleeza rice has said that serbia must "look forward," "move on," and do "what it needs to do" (voa). but the way she said it was completely offensive. "we believe that the resolution of kosovo's status will really, finally, let the balkans begin to put its terrible history behind it. I mean, after all, we're talking about something from 1389 - 1389! it's time to move forward" (sf chronicle). what the secretary fails to understand is that it is precisely because this conflict has raged for more than six centuries that orthodox serbs and muslim albanians may never be able to "move on".