You know, in spite of seeing what has gone on for all these years with the break-up of Yugo, the internal motivation for these alliances between the Croats & the Muslims had always mystified me. Then I was reading this page on the WWII Holocaust in Croatia and ran across the following passage:
"The Croatian Nazi Mile Budak, who was a Minister in the Ustasha regime talked on 6th June 1941 at a meeting in Krizevci, about the question of the liquidation of the Serb Orthodox religion. He described Croatia - which had also annexed Bosnia - thus:
"We are a state of two religions: Catholicism and Islam"
And then it hit me -- that is really what they have been trying to accomplish with both WWII and the recent wars -- turn the entire former Yugoslavia into "a state of two religions: Catholicism and Islam"
The Croats & Muslims wiped out virtually all the Jews in WWII, so that left only the Serbs to deal with. They did a good job ethnically cleansing the Serbs out of large areas of the former Yugo during these last wars, and let a stagnant economy and polical impotence drive out another portion of Serbs into Western Europe and the US.
One more round of this in fifty years and Serb survivors be like the Jews before the founding of Israel -- a wandering tribe of people with no homeland to call their own -- and that is perhaps their ultimate goal.
shoot, he wished me dead! Isn't that right, joan?
So Tom, that would put you and I on hoplites "mercenary" list, i.e traitors to the USA. So much sadness I have for that sap.