Would a sympathy card do?

It's a nice idea: Holkeri demands that Kosovo leaders condemn violence

The head of the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK), former Finnish Prime Minister Harri Holkeri, has called on the political leaders of Kosovo to denounce the violence of recent weeks, and to help bring the guilty to justice.

But he sounds like a high-school principal:

"I have heard many explanations for the events, but something was left unsaid. Violence was not condemned."
   
Holkeri also said that he is sure that the Albanian leaders know more about the events of recent days than they have let on.

What next? Suspend them for a week? Make them pick up garbage in the cafeteria?

No wonder UNMIK is so toothless.

Here's a piece from the same publication from about a year ago, when Holkeri took on the job: Harri Holkeri faces big challenges in new Kosovo post (I think that headline falls into the "No sh*t" category).

The article says that the three prior UN administrators didn't last a year (note that it's only be about a year thus far for Holkeri). Holkeri's predecessor, Michael Steiner from Germany, said, "A year and a half in Kosovo sank deep into my bones. At difficult times I would often listen to Mozart's Requiem." He sank his career there when he lost his temper with German soldiers and demanded caviar in Moscow. At the end of his time in Kosovo, he said he happy to be going back to Germany where he could attend the theatre and concerts swim in an indoor swimming pool.

I wonder if Holkeri is looking forward to a swim in an indoor swimming pool.