06-02-2009, 08:41 PM
Magda & David - excellent posts.
The European Left has fallen hook, line and sinker for the "demonic Serb" agenda. It's especially disgraceful amongst groups such as the German Greens, because these supposedly "anti-Nazi" liberal Germans have completely forgotten the lessons of history.
I've had numerous arguments over the years with those who quite ludicrously try to equate the actions of Serb Chetniks in WW2 with the Nazi-collaborating Croatian Ustaša. The simple fact that the Communist, Tito, was a Croatian seems enough for many on the left to assume, quite wrongly, that the Croats are the Balkan angels.
David - fascinating material on Draganovic, Montini and the Vatican.
Milliband's oft-repeated claim that Kosovo is a "unique case" in European history justifying a unilateral declaration of independence is one of the stupidest ever made by a British politician.
Although watching him genuflect to the Americans, maybe he's simply awaiting his future payday as a "consultant" to the drug & gun smugglers who run Camp Bondsteel....
The European Left has fallen hook, line and sinker for the "demonic Serb" agenda. It's especially disgraceful amongst groups such as the German Greens, because these supposedly "anti-Nazi" liberal Germans have completely forgotten the lessons of history.
I've had numerous arguments over the years with those who quite ludicrously try to equate the actions of Serb Chetniks in WW2 with the Nazi-collaborating Croatian Ustaša. The simple fact that the Communist, Tito, was a Croatian seems enough for many on the left to assume, quite wrongly, that the Croats are the Balkan angels.
David - fascinating material on Draganovic, Montini and the Vatican.
Milliband's oft-repeated claim that Kosovo is a "unique case" in European history justifying a unilateral declaration of independence is one of the stupidest ever made by a British politician.
Although watching him genuflect to the Americans, maybe he's simply awaiting his future payday as a "consultant" to the drug & gun smugglers who run Camp Bondsteel....
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war