The Next Balkan Domino?

摘要

The vietnam war was fought partly on the basis of "the domino theory"—the idea that if South Vietnam fell, so would the rest of Southeast Asia. Just because the theory proved wrong in Asia doesn't mean it's wrong in the Balkans. "Imagine," Macedonian Interior Minister Pavle Trajanov said last week, "that 35 to 40 million Mexicans entered the United States, increasing your population by close to 15 percent." The United States could handle that; Macedonia, barely coping with a flood tide of Kosovar Albanians, may not.