Ten years after thousands of young Kosovar Albanians risked their lives to fight against Slobodan Milosevic’s oppression and to win independence, Kosovo’s young well-educated professionals are holding back Kosovo’s future by fearing to take risks.

We woke up early and drove to the Danish camp. On Sundays the mess served brunch. There were waffles, pancakes and other food you could not find easily in Kosovo.

Lazy journalists, couch geopolitical strategists, and Cold War nostalgists have all been convinced that South Ossetia is like Kosovo. They are all convinced that the similarities are there; the only detail to square off remains which of one of the many combination of similarities has taken place in this case. But if there is any similarity - because connection there is none - between the two conflicts, Kosovo is like Georgia, not S. Ossetia.

They sit in two places, a café and a bench across the street, and they stand in a third place of that intersection. There are more bridgewatchers than this, in apartments above our heads, but I have never actually seen them, only heard of them. On the bench outside of the corner store they sit, two or three of them, talking or reading newspapers. There are rarely less than two there and they have perhaps the least obstructed view of the bridge.