Posted on 04/01/2008 7:40:30 PM PDT by Bokababe
Croatia’s recognition of Kosovo has more to do with a desire to please Washington than responsible regional politics, writes Marinko Čulić.
In less than the two months since Kosovo became independent, Croatia has been flooded with so many wrong conclusions and theses that they have already started to create a false parallel reality. This is not to say that unforgettable political statements have not been made before, especially during Tudjman’s time, when, for example, the thesis of Croatia as the ‘bulwark of Christianity’ shook the western part of ex-Yugoslavia, and almost the country itself. We thought we had left this behind, and few could have imagined that this dirty package once thrown out of the door would return through the window.
This is exactly what has happened. In the effort to please Washington it is as though Croatia’s politicians adopted the logic of George Bush, who solemnly proclaimed the end of war on the occasion of the US army’s entry into Baghdad, while the war has kept raging for the next five years, and nobody knows for how much longer. It is in a similar manner that many in Croatia see the independence of Kosovo. It took only a few weeks for the unsophisticated simplifications of a serious problem to produce several firm, but completely wrong theses about it. Here they are...
(Excerpt) Read more at tni.org ...
Fine, retroactively apply the same logic to the Krajina.
Bump for later reading.
I hate to say it, but that's a done deal -- long ago and far away to most Croats. This is now.
Not even Milosevic and Tudjman ever thought of recognizing the independence of the para-states they themselves had created (two self-proclaimed Serbian states in BiH and Croatia, and one Croatian in BiH). Petty local tyrants seem to have been better than big ones, at least in this issue.
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