While I'm writing, the war is not yet over, bombing goes on, people die, is deported, there's still ethnic cleansing, negotiations go on, plots, diplomacies plumb, truce is issued purely pragmatically in homeland, the need to go on etc. 
I write so hoping that when you will read this article all that will have turned into obsolete (but positively!!!) by events. 
But saving you the opinions on war, already waved by renown political commentators, and questions about the reason why and how, about modalities of this war, the impossibility to foresee effects of bombs in Kosovo, it remains to me two huge and urgent questions hard to resolve and someway related each other. 
They are questions kept at the bounds of the war (read as “police operation “ maybe to misrepresent “ethnic cleansing “) and polemics as they were not really important. I tell you at once that I deem them not only central, but that they will keep central and entangled matters for a long time. So what's the matter? About times and hate. 
Let's start with the first one. Till the day before yesterday and before the Nato's bombing and at the same time of the savageries of Milosevic, they said that by the means of the planetary economy globalizaton we would assist to the homologation too, let's call it 'cultural' of a whole generation: do you remember the last Pasolini infecting consumerism? That one. In a word, the Mc Donald of Belgrade would succeed in lying a common denominator for teenagers: young people and a little more than young, getting till Rome, London, Washington etc. So well, it hasn't been this way: war has opposed generations, as once as ever, this homologation has resulted outward, an appearance, a kind of tore up cellophane at the first serious-minded drive. 
The matter could and must be discussed wider and longer. But maybe it's enough this space to get to what is, on my opinion the point. Time: just the time. We are already so unused to historicize, to use memory to foreshadow next sets, that it has been enough a layer of mustard and ketchup to deemed as packed the mentioned homologation. 
No, the past is to be “re-negotiated “ (a well-chosen expression by Furio Colombo), it is to get back to the labours of time, of distinction possibly to find the ground of compatibility within the historical-cultural differences, risen also from the same human seed. The Kosovo conflict is telling us also that. 
Time, a value and a state that seem to be pulverized by the present. And, second matter related to war, the hate. I mean the hate among populations, beyond the Adriatic sea and on this side, and then for us, the Italians, too.  
Do you think that the seed of hate, unfortunately so well rooted in the Balkans, can be uprooted with a political agreement among governments? Come on, maybe it will be pruned so to seem sterile, but not uprooted...How much will it take to uproot it and to sow the field of our life in common. 
Time and hate, two little variables in a ethnic cleansing operation...