Comments on: Bleeding Serbia

By: Boyan K.

Boyan K. — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:38:18 +0000

Thanks, Dr. Fleming! As far as your Serbian is concerned, I'm glad for an opportunity to testify its excellence as a first-hand witness, having had a pleasure of attending a conference in Serbia, a couple of years back, where you have held the WHOLE your lecture in flawless Serbian. As for Njegos, yes, apart from the archaic form of his verses, the classics, apparently, share the same status within the most of modern languages. We seem to be living in the times when only the experts are willing to dedicate their time and understanding not only to Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Puskin, Njegos... but to most of the contemporaries as well.

By: TJF

TJF — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:25:11 +0000

I thank Boyan K for his remarks and agree entirely with his rejection of Western hypocrisy. What troubled me about RV and one other Serb who wrote in to this website (and others) was not that they attacked me on false grounds but that the absurdity of their allegations tended to make Serbs look like complete idiots. For the record, I find Njegos very hard going in Serbian, but I have blundered my way through "The Mountain Wreath" as well as some of the works of his predecessor, Saint Petar.

By: Boyan K.

Boyan K. — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:54:25 +0000

One more vote for Dr. Fleming , belatedly, though. However (to my fellow Serbs), I wouldn't be so light-heartedly categorical in dismissing Peter RV's observations whatsoever. I do find his accusations against Dr. Fleming misdirected and there's no argue about that. But RV's anger toward the annoying hypocrisy (and sheer sadism, one might add!) of the Western official agenda toward Serbs is jut a logical and natural expression of a feeling that every self-respecting Serbian shares with him during this two-decade period of a relentless Serb-bashing in western media and by the western policies, unseen since the Nazi occupation of Serbia and Serbs in the Balkans an general. Plus, the current Western attitude toward Serbia ad serbian element in the Balkans, seem to resemble too frighteningly to the Nazi policies of "punishing the Serbs". Even the maps of increasingly de-Serbicized Balkans look EXACTLY as the Nazi ones from the early 1940's. One doesn't have to be a Serbian nationalist to see that, it's all just too obvious.

By: sirivanhoe98

sirivanhoe98 — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:19:58 +0000

As I feared. Obama's approach to foreign policy might turn out to be the same as McCain's.

This is an excerpt from a pamphlet published in 1996, Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans. We republish it now, in successive installments, because the rise of Barack Obama as the putative Democratic presidential candidate augurs the rise of a new liberal internationalism – the very same sort of policy that led us to bomb Belgrade, one of the oldest cities in Europe, and paved the way for the establishment of the gangster state known as Kosovo.

The great historian Charles Austin Beard aptly summed up American foreign policy since World War II as "perpetual war for perpetual peace." It is a policy, upheld by both parties and by the elites, that has reached its tragic climax in the U.S./NATO occupation of Bosnia.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12874

By: Alex Trivunovic

Alex Trivunovic — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:10:45 +0000

Just wanted to voice my support for Dr. Fleming, and to note that the 'serbs' bashing him are undoubtedly DS voters. That's really all you need to know about them.

By: TJF

TJF — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:26:16 +0000

We received information on the three-party coalition being formed by Kostunica's DSS, the Radicals, and the Socialists. Information is available on the DSS website, both in Serbian and English: http://www.dss.org.yu/

By: sirivanhoe98

sirivanhoe98 — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:47:26 +0000

Goran

>>>However, I don’t quite understand why should he militarily engage Serbia again?

Because he can.
Because war is an integral tool of US foreign policy.
Because almost every president since end of WW2 has been at war somehere during his term in office. He will be no different.

I hold higher hopes of Osama, but even he might get rolled by the military machine within Pentagon.

As an aside, US declared war on Spain in 1898 because according to one congressman "America needs a war". Luckily for both sides, Spain sued for peace after about a week of fighting, but only after its fleet was decimated off the coast of Florida.

It appears a congressman's mindset has not eveloved much since 1898.

By: Goran

Goran — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:22:24 +0000

This is an outstanding article. What I am worried about is the possible McCain victory in the US election. However, I don't quite understand why should he militarily engage Serbia again?

I am of the firmest possible opinion that Serbia MUST take an immediate legal action before the ICJ and prove that the Kosovo independence is illegal in international law. Such a decision by the World Court would be the protector of Serbia against onsloughts of any kind.

Tadic did not want to bring actions against states which illegally recognized the illegal declaration of independece/secession of Kosovo, although he promised to do so in the presidential election. Had he sued, he would not have the problems he is facing now because the support for him would go up enabling him to form a Government. He was not wise to realize that, but then again, his defense of Kosovo seems to be a pure rethoric.

So, I belive the LEGAL ACTION NOW campaign is the key. Serbia must have the ICJ judgment in her favour.

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By: Zika

Zika — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:08:32 +0000

Thank you Dr. Fleming!!!