[rogermellie]

apologies, my remark was meant in the context that as this is british news and very few americans would know who blunkett is or what he does, this would be a thread populated mostly by brits.

that said, i think very few brits would have any sympathy with a serb nationalist/'pan-christian' veiwpoint - we don't condider people who starve cities and rape old women to be christian, regardless of what they do on a sunday morning.

and he started it....

[tjwmason]

that said, i think very few brits would have any sympathy with a serb nationalist/'pan-christian' veiwpoint - we don't condider people who starve cities and rape old women to be christian, regardless of what they do on a sunday morning.

We have to realise that the events in the Balkans were a series of civil wars, and like all such wars all sides did many pretty ghastly things. I have seen nothing to suggest that the Serbs were worse than the Bosnian Muslims, the Croats, or the Albanians; yet they seem to have been uniquely tarred in the western imagination.

I'm not necessarily into a pan-Christian viewpoint, but when if I hear daily reports of monasteries being burned or cemeteries defiled (all under the watchful eye of NATO or the E.U.), it becomes more understandable that a group who have viewed themselves as victims for centuries seek defence through attack.

and he started it....

I am guessing that the tone here is at least in part tongue in cheek, but if we're going to get into the game of who started what we'll end up several centuries ago blaming it all on an ethnic group which no longer exists.