tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post7849922985429102838..comments2023-11-05T22:35:31.766+00:00Comments on Neil Clark: Every Country's Right to Self-DefenceNeil Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-51389016272625907962007-12-09T10:44:00.000+00:002007-12-09T10:44:00.000+00:00Political and religious affiliations aside Serbia ...Political and religious affiliations aside Serbia is the least guilty in this whole mess. The US ceased the opportunity to grab a strategic advantage while its former cold war adversary went through difficult period. All the hoo-ha about the Serb atrocities was easily concocted and served to the unsuspecting masses through the controlled media.<BR/><BR/>The real problem is that the tables have been turned by a sooner than expected Russian recovery and the West is finding it hard to swallow its pride and admit its wrong doing. The choice of carrying on regardless may be the silliest move yet.Bozidarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01077926095653535428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-35047242866795845352007-12-08T06:58:00.000+00:002007-12-08T06:58:00.000+00:00I think that we are sleepwalking into another war....I think that we are sleepwalking into another war. The Serbs won't back down, and the only thing that will prevent it is if Russia backs them.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12280305663941374991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-39810106127876075922007-12-08T00:17:00.000+00:002007-12-08T00:17:00.000+00:00Hello Anon-y-mouse,Why should SERBIA hand over Kar...Hello Anon-y-mouse,<BR/><BR/>Why should SERBIA hand over Karadzic and Mladic? Karadzic is Montenegrian and Mladic Bosnian. Shouldn't Montenegro and Bosnia be looking for them?<BR/>Not to mention that Serbia was cleared of so called 'genocide'.<BR/><BR/>So, do remind us all again, why should Serbia search for citizens of other countries?<BR/><BR/>Should Serbia also go looking for Greeks who helped them fight the Croats and Bosnians while its at it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-83459013825291491702007-12-07T23:48:00.000+00:002007-12-07T23:48:00.000+00:00Anon-y-mouse said... "Neil, following your logic, ...Anon-y-mouse said... <BR/>"Neil, following your logic, Serbia should surely hand over Karadzic and Mladic to The Hague then, right?"<BR/><BR/>That assumes that Karadzic and Mladic are in Serbia to start with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-61838846382657539492007-12-07T20:08:00.000+00:002007-12-07T20:08:00.000+00:00Neil, following your logic, Serbia should surely h...Neil, following your logic, Serbia should surely hand over Karadzic and Mladic to The Hague then, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-9115347336915481862007-12-07T17:38:00.000+00:002007-12-07T17:38:00.000+00:00First Iran and now this: it's not looking good for...First Iran and now this: it's not looking good for the neocons. If Kosovo declares independence, then the Serbian army will be straight in there, with the full assurance of unlimited Russian backing.<BR/><BR/>And that will be the end of the neocon-backed separatist aspirations of pimping, heroin-trafficking Wahhabi wearing black shirts in deference to their SS fathers and grandfathers. Nobody is going to risk World War Three for the likes of them.<BR/><BR/>Are they?David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-23377193688041421562007-12-07T11:57:00.000+00:002007-12-07T11:57:00.000+00:00Hi Luke: so I take it that means you think that Bo...Hi Luke: so I take it that means you think that Bosnian Serbs should have the right to separate from Bosnia too? And if not, why not?Neil Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-40472279374575647922007-12-07T11:53:00.000+00:002007-12-07T11:53:00.000+00:00How do you know my opinion on Bosnian Serbs? Odd. ...How do you know my opinion on Bosnian Serbs? Odd. <BR/><BR/>And I know exactly why the ethnic make-up of Kosovo is why it is, I just don't believe in setting current ethical-political positions based on events that happened before I was born. Sure, the treatment of Serbia and surrounding states in WW2 and its aftermath was atrocious, but that doesn't create a right TODAY strong enough to overcome the wishes of an area/ethnicity of determine its own future, indpendently. As far as I can tell, it has been well over a decade since Serbia has been able to have any real control over Kosovo anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-70341730398607615242007-12-07T08:33:00.001+00:002007-12-07T08:33:00.001+00:00The Scotland analogy is silly Luke; the Scots are ...The Scotland analogy is silly Luke; the Scots are not the majority there because of massive enthic cleansing of other groups. Serbs were the majority group in Kosovo up until WW2, when ethnic Albanians, with support from the Italian fascists expelled Serbs, who never got the right of return under Tito. Then there were the events of the late 1990s, when by use of the prxy KLA the US attempted to prise Kosovo away from the rest of Yuguoslavia.<BR/>Kosovo has enormous mineral wealth and is now the site of 'Camp Bondsteel', the US's largest from scratch military base since Vietnam. And since 1999, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Roma and other enthnic groups have been driven from the province. In order to plunder Kosovo's assets, gain a strategic base in the Balkans and destabilise the last remaining socialist government in the region, the US was prepared to side with drug-dealing terrorists and provoke a war. Such a crime should not be rewarded.<BR/><BR/>btw. if you're so keen on self determination, why aren't you championing the right of Serbs in Bosnia to cede and join Serbia, as the majority wish to do ? Why is that 'verboten' and totally out of the question but Kosovan independence 'inevitable' and a good thing? Oh, I see, self-determination doesn't apply where Serbs are involved.....Neil Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-88116949316970534632007-12-07T08:33:00.000+00:002007-12-07T08:33:00.000+00:00There is, I believe, a movement for Cornish indepe...There is, I believe, a movement for Cornish independence from England. Are the US and EU going to support that too? Or might the British government have a different view about that one?Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16112462990202280587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-91904451387131795942007-12-06T22:40:00.000+00:002007-12-06T22:40:00.000+00:00Kosovo is 92% Albanian and 90% Sunni Muslim. Do yo...Kosovo is 92% Albanian and 90% Sunni Muslim. Do you not think they have the right to self-determination is a majority of the people vote for it in a fair election? If, for example, the Scots vote for independence, would you similarly reject their right to self-determination?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com