Indeed, one frequent criticism of the Kosovars, and of their intellectuals, is that, especially last year, they hugely over-estimated the strength of the Kosovo Liberation Army, praised it to the skies (in newspapers such as Koha Ditore, among others) and puffed it up when it was nowhere near ready to take on the Serbs.
In Sopheap is one of five Khmer Rouge "intellectuals" who defected last year after the Cambodian army finally overran the guerrilla movement's headquarters at Anlong Veng.