Condi Condi Condi...

Yes, it's time that folks in the Balkans finally got their act together and stopped fighting. Nothing has a way of putting to rest six centuries of strife like a stern little rebuke from Condoleeza Rice:

"We believe that the resolution of Kosovo's status will really, finally, let the Balkans begin to put its terrible history behind it," Rice said. "I mean, after all, we're talking about something from 1389 — 1389. It's time to move forward."

Rice is a Sovietologist. Surely she has some sense of the number of foreign ministers in the past half millennium who have said roughly the same thing, with no effect.