In my mind, SPS is the first such party to “cosmetically” change…

It is also not by chance that Jeremic stated today that Russia is Serbia’s no1 friend in the international arena…is there part of DS that feels slightly differnet than mainsteam DS?

Lets see…

Madness rules. Isn’t it?

The situation calls for a madman to understand it.

JJ, my reasoning is based on pure facts. You should really get yours right. Everybody knows that the SAA was suspended immediately upon the signature until the crown condition is fullfiled, meaning the full collaboration of Serbia with the ICTY. Serbia can ratify the SAA tomorrow, but it will not enter into force until ratified by the 27 member states of the EU. And most probably that will happen when Karadzic and Mladic, citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina who are not in Serbia, are arrested. I see that you believe that this will happen shortly. Good for you, but not for Serbian people who do not see that the most effective thing Serbia can do at this moment is to slap the states that have recognized the illegal secession of Kosovo with the legal action before the ICJ.

It is exactly those who have signed the SAA that do not wish to do that, because exactly like you, they wish to create a false picture of ‘HAVING DONE SOMETHING’, WHILE EFFECTIVELY DOING NOTHING. In the meantime, to the outrage of the American Serbs Obama wishes well to Serbia with her ‘neighbour Kosovo’, while the Germans say that recognition of Kosovo by Serbia is not the condition for the EU candidacy, but Serbia ‘must not block Kosovo’s accession to the international organizations’. Here we are, new conditions are mushrooming, and you are stubbornly citing some suicidal polls. Instead of looking for polls I subscribe to Iliya Pavlovich’s citation: ‘ Dissent is the noblest form of patriotism’ and add: ‘ You can fool some people sometimes, but you cannot fool all the people all the time’. For the SAA was nothing but a nicely packed box of European air, a pre-election gift to Tadic and his lot.

I call upon the American Serbs to write a letter to Messrs. Tadic and Jeremic and urge them to take action before the ICJ NOW.

Of course you could not forsee things when you do not look at facts, but stick stubornly to your wishfull thinking.

You have discredited the poll which, even if a bit exagerated, correctly gauged the majority opinion. SPS displayed sufficient common sense to accept this.

The other important, and for some posters – inconvenient, fact is that Serbia is geographically closer to “Europe” than to Russia. It always has, and will always be part of Europe, with all the goods and the bads that come with it, rather than of the distant and backward Asiatic culture(s).

You and I, just like the rest of the mankind, obviously differ on the main premise: reasoning based on facts, or fiction.

Endemic nature of Islam shows its face again (today in Istanbul – the most secular of the Islamic countries). So much for Fatwas, terrorists, peaceful and peaceloving Islam. Let’s see how predominantly Serbian Bosnia and Serbian ancestral lands (Kosmet) surivive overt spreading of the mosques. I fear Dr. Trifkovic will be proven right again.

JJ, you are mistaken. There are so called regulars on this thread who did predict that DS and their lot composed of three other parties would or could take 38% of the vote. But, that is not the main point. Without the socialists, those 38% would not be enough to form the government – meaning that no one could have predicted that the socialists would join forces with DS.

Who is talking about Slobodan Milosevic’s monumental defense before the ICTY in which he exposed far too many lies to remain alive? Who is talking about Julia Gorin’s now famous statement that had the ICTY been brave enough to sentence Milosevic on the basis of the evidence before it, that such a verdict would “cause riots in all major European cities”?

Who is talking about 5-6,000 Serbs killed in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war? Who is talking about thousands of Serbs killed around Srebrenica by Naser Oric’s forces? Who is talking about seventeen Serb villages completely wiped out by Oric’s lot which abused the Srebrenica’s UN protected area status, thus precipitating the tragic events that followed? What was doing the UN (Dutch) contigent there? Sitting and watching?

Thousands and thousands of Serb victims across the former Yugoslavia that nobody in EU, US, ICTY and elsewhere could not care less is nothing but the crime of the century committed on one small nation.

The new DS-SPS government must not loose these facts from its sight. The decision of Milorad Dodik of Republika Srpska to sue the Dutch Government for the Oric’s crimes before the Dutch courts is the most welcome move. Serbia must also sue all the states that have recognized the illegal recognition of Kosovo before the ICJ. Whoever obstruts such a move is not to be trusted one iota.