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  • Serbia's best efforts to please the West go largely unacknowledged

    11/28/2009 3:10:40 PM PST · by Ravnagora · 15 replies · 343+ views
    Cleveland.com ^ | September 27, 2009 | Elizabeth Sullivan
    The perplexity of Serbia's leaders is understandable. Nearly nine years after they hustled Slobodan Milosevic off to the Hague to face war crimes charges and the end of his life in a jail cell -- a middle-of-the-night act with questionable legal authority that met with much applause from the West -- Serbia's "democratic reformers" remain smeared with the tar of Washington's former policy delusions. They get no respect, even after holding democratic elections, remaking their economy on a Western model with more vehemence than most of the rest of the Balkans combined and slavishly doing almost all that the West...