Re: Ah, Those Journalists
No. WWII was of an entirely different order of magnitude. What I compare is how a neutral description of (historical) events can be intertwined with a politically motivated one.Originally Posted by Sarmatian
I do take you for a moderate, a man of intelligence and an honest conscience at that, who's trying to understand the events that occured. Nor do I think most Serbians are mean spirited. More stuck in a discourse that is not conducive to objective dealing with the recent past.And to me particularly, I hope.
Not WWII, more North Ireland. Normal people, with academic degrees and footy on the telly at night. In a society unfortunenately poisoned by lingering sectarianism that it could well do without.
I do expect Serbia to join NATO in the not to distant future. And the EU too. In fact, by coincidence, as of today Serbians can travel to the EU without the need of a visum.
Kosovo will for the foreseeable future remain a mix between Afghanistan and a former Eastern Bloc mobster state. Tragic, yes. But then, the NATO bombings were not so much the result of any fuzzy feeling towards Kosovo, but to put an end to a decade of violence and etnic cleansing.
I have a long memory. Eight months ago you wrote:
Sarmatian: 'I can not conclude anything else except that break up of Yugoslavia and reducing influence and power of Serbia was a goal of American foreign policy throughout those years. Instead of a single, unified state now we have 6 statelets (7 if you count Kosovo) reduced to economic dependency and Nato soldiers and bases throughout the territory of former Yugoslavia.
Of course, this doesn't mean that various internal factors weren't involved but foreign factors were dominant. There are three major factors for the break-up of Yugoslavia:
1) Foreign influence
2) economic situation
3) nationalism'
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