The few unpleasant, and sometimes dramatic, developments in Kosovo and Serbia, and in their relations with the EU were predictable. It was predictable that Serbia would react strongly to the recognition of an independent Kosovo by the majority of EU member states; predictable that an independent Kosovo would not be formed as an already viable state and that the United States would be delighted to leave the task of making it so to the EU; predictable that the Serbs of Kosovo should become...