The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26192   Message #313650
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
06-Oct-00 - 02:31 PM
Thread Name: Yugoslavia
Subject: RE: Yugoslavia
Let's wait and see. Being "anti-american" is an excusable enough attitude for anyone whose seen their country being flattened by American bombs. I assume he's anti the rest of NATO too. And if he hadn't not many people in Servia would have voted for him.

Politicians and others in all countries have blinkers on when it come to the crimes committed by their own countries. It's easy for us to recognise what happened in Kosovo and in Bosnia as Serbian atrocities, just as it is for people in the rest of the world to see what happened in Vietnam as American atrocities, or things that have happened in Ireland as English atrocities. And Irish atrocities. And there aren't any international war crimes tribunals for those things. Unfortunately maybe.

So lets wait and see. And remember that bit about motes and beams in the eye.