by Gilles d'Aymery
Author's Note (added June 6, 2011): Lawrence S. Eagleburger, who just died, spent seven years of his career in Yugoslavia. According to the AP obit, "In 1992, he likened the country's dissolution, which began a year earlier, to a Greek tragedy and predicted 'a lot of people are going to die.' At the same time, Eagleburger was not inclined to intervene militarily. 'There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution,' the long-time problem-solver commented paradoxically." And I am reminded of the prescient words of my old friend Lioubomir Mihailovich: "I feel that after this war [Kosovo] things will never be the same. We have opened Pandora's Box and no one knows what we will end up finding." Well, we've found Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, and counting, a non-ending economic depression and growing immiseration.
(Swans - July 18, 2005) A long-time defender of historical justice in the Balkans recently wrote, "I have become so disillusioned with this whole situation. The media and our politicians have demonized the Serbs so successfully, that I doubt they will ever be able to come back as a people. We didn't even treat the Germans this badly after they lost the war." Indeed, the past week saw its stream of Serb bashing on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the "massacre of Srebrenica"...more: http://www.swans.com/library/art11/ga195.html
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