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3. Type in your message in the appropriate field. Please remember to be polite, focused and clear. Try to be brief, but you may support your argument with key facts or quotes. The "short sample letters" below are given for your guidance - feel free to cut-and-paste the text or use them otherwise as you see fit; you may likewise use all the resources in the Alert! section in the left column of this page.

Letter 1

The latest events in Kosovo have importance far beyond the Balkans. The American quest for global stability, our tax dollars, and above all - our political and moral prestige, are all on the line. We can not appease terrorists in Kosovo, as we do not elsewhere. Kosovo Albanian leaders should be tried for their crimes, not rewarded with a state. A stable long-term status resolution may take years to reach, but in the meantime, promoting a decentralized automony within Serbia is not only legally sanctioned, but probably our only hope out of this mess. Please do not support independence for Kosovo. Thank you.

Letter 2

Shattered along with Serbian schools, homes and churches is the illusion that Kosovo Albanian institutions can live up to norms of civilized society. Until they are disbanded and demilitarized, with command responsibility swiftly established for these "crimes against humanity" (former UN Mission chief Holkeri), our morale, prestige and tax dollars will be sapped by a bunch of terrorist thugs-turned-politicians. Kosovo Albanian leaders should be handed Hague indictments, not a state to run. Please do not support independence for Kosovo. Thank you.

Letter 3

Five years ago, America took the unprecedented step of going to war against a sovereign nation, Serbia, in the belief that it was warranted to protect an endangered minority (Kosovo Albanians). Today, these people are committing crimes far greater than those they were allegedly subjected to, right before our very eyes - yet we are asked by their apologists to cave in to demands of political extortion stemming from terrorism. If we do so, the lesson will not be lost on scores of rogue elements around the globe, our painstaking efforts in the war on terror having been delivered a fatal blow. I believe that granting independence to Kosovo would be an illegal, immoral and dangerous act. Thank you for considering my opinion.

Letter 4

Without even a semblance of sympathy for their Serbian subjects, or sincere condemnation of the racial pogrom rampage of March 2004, Kosovo Albanian leaders have conclusively shown they are unfit for provisional, let alone any "permanent " institutions of government. With serious foreign policy challenges mounting elsewhere, America's best bet is to return the province's effective sovereignty there where Security Council Resolution 1244 stipulates. Assisting to reestablish a mode of autonomy for Kosovo within Serbia-Montenegro - a state in transition, but with a strong tradition of state institutions and democracy - buys us the stability we desperately needed for over a decade in this part of the world. We still have a chance to fix the Balkan powderkeg. I believe that giving in to calls for Kosovo independence would fatally harm it, along with our moral principles and national security. Thank you for considering my opinion.

Letter 5

Summarizing the dramatic events culminating in March 2004, in the UN-administered Serbian province, Peter Schieder, President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly eloquently stated: "Kosovo cannot build its future on the blood of innocent people and the ashes of their burned homes and churches." It is already evident that the Albanian majority in Kosovo - and its political leadership - are failing to demonstrate that they can create a future of Kosovo in which all its people will have a chance to live in peace and stability". With serious foreign policy challenges mounting elsewhere, America's best bet is to return the province's effective sovereignty there where Security Council Resolution 1244 stipulates. Assisting to reestablish a mode of autonomy for Kosovo within Serbia-Montenegro - a state in transition, but with a strong tradition of state institutions and democracy - buys us the stability we desperately needed for over a decade in this part of the world. We still have a chance to fix the Balkan powderkeg. I believe that giving in to calls for Kosovo independence would fatally harm it, along with our moral principles and national security. Thank you for considering my opinion.

Letter 6

The highly orchestrated and deadly rampage of March 2004 perpertrated by ethnic Albanian mobs in the UN-administered province of Kosovo-Metohija requires reexamination of Western policy there. Former UN Special Envoy to the Balkans, Carl Bildt put it succinctly: "In the US, some are now saying that a multi-ethnic Kosovo is not realistic and that in the wake of the violence we should reward the perpetrators with immediate independence: status - without standards. But giving in to violence today would give a powerful incentive to the ethnic cleansers of tomorrow. It is a principle as dangerous in the fight against ethnic violence as it is in the fight against terrorism. It risks betraying everything we have stood and fought for in the region for more than a decade." Indeed that would be too high a price for America to pay. Five years after our humanitarian intervention, I sincerely believe that we should ensure that either everybody there lives like a human, or we return sovereignty to were it legally belongs - Serbia, today a far different and more democratic place than back then. Thank you for considering my opinion.