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Sorry, Not Interested (in joining the EU)
Newsweek ^
| Jan 12, 2008
| Michael Levitin
Posted on 01/12/2008 11:57:56 PM PST by Bokababe
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It's a way of keeping their sovereignty, when all the countries around her are losing theirs.
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:57:58 PM PST
by
Bokababe
To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; vooch; ...
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:59:50 PM PST
by
Bokababe
( http://www.savekosovo.org)
To: Bokababe
“We’re not interested in joining the Modern world, we like the Medieval one just fine.”
- Serbia
To: canuck_conservative
If it wasn’t for the Serbs, Europe would have been speeking Turkish for the last few hundred years.
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posted on
01/13/2008 12:10:43 AM PST
by
SatinDoll
(Fredhead and proud of it!)
To: canuck_conservative
Actually, it’s the EU that wants the region of former Yugoslavia. Globalists can’t stand the travesty of all those state-owned corporations...
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posted on
01/13/2008 12:11:45 AM PST
by
endthematrix
(He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
To: Bokababe
The article and its author lose me when, in the second sentence, the author claims the US is a “former superpower.”
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posted on
01/13/2008 12:14:53 AM PST
by
bajabaja
To: bajabaja
That’s because it’s NEWSWEAK. They’re so liberal and anti US, they make Time magazine look like the Christian handbook to the GOP.
To: SatinDoll
I think it’s important we support Serbia and open economic relations with them ASAP. Otherwise they will be economically tied to Russia and China.
To: Romneyfor President2008
Except that Serbia has ties to Russia that go way, way, waaaaayyy back. The US isn’t cutting those ties anytime soon.
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posted on
01/13/2008 12:43:37 AM PST
by
kb2614
(Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
To: SatinDoll
If it wasnt for the Serbs, Europe would have been speeking Turkish for the last few hundred years. The historical fact of the matter is that the Ottoman Turks conquered most of Serbia before Columbus discovered America and conquered Belgrade in 1521. Serbia only managed to completely free itself from Ottoman rule in 1867.
If you want to thank somebody for saving the rest of Europe from the Ottomans, thank the Austrians, the Germans, the Poles, the Spaniards and the Italians.
Battle of Vienna, 1683
Battle of Lepanto, 1571
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posted on
01/13/2008 12:49:43 AM PST
by
Polybius
To: SatinDoll
If it wasnt for the Serbs, Europe would have been speeking Turkish for the last few hundred years.
The Turks were able to get far past the Serbs, all the way to Vienna, so that statement's a stretch at best. If you want to thank someone, try King John Sobieski of Poland, the hero of The Battle of Vienna (1683).
To: Polybius
Okay. I apologize.
But they did a good job of keeping the Turks at bay for a while.
We’ve done a poor job of recognizing the threat of Islamo Fascism in Bosnia. Instead, the EU and USA are trying to give Kososovo independence. That is like the U.S. having our southwest hacked-off and renamed Aztlan.
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posted on
01/13/2008 12:55:33 AM PST
by
SatinDoll
(Fredhead and proud of it!)
To: Polybius
If you want to thank somebody for saving the rest of Europe from the Ottomans..... Can we get a favorable mention for the Byzantine Greeks? They stalled them for centuries.
To: canuck_conservative
If you want to thank someone, try King John Sobieski of Poland..... Ancestor of actress LeeLee Sobieski?
To: Bokababe
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posted on
01/13/2008 2:37:24 AM PST
by
patch789
To: Bokababe
If I were Serbia, I would do exactly the same thing.
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posted on
01/13/2008 2:41:47 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(In my fantasy world, the Dems run a Zell Miller/ Lieberman ticket...)
To: SatinDoll
>>But they did a good job of keeping the Turks at bay for a while.<<
Yes, the Serbs made excellent cannon-fodder!
To: canuck_conservative
Oh come now, I'm surprised at you. You should beware of giving too much credit to this wonderful modern world of ours. When, after all, was Europe at its most productive, innovative and liberal? The Renaissance? Roman era? or today?
I'd advise you to look at some headlines before you give answer.
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posted on
01/13/2008 3:03:18 AM PST
by
Live free or die
(Insert pretentious quote you wish you thought of here.)
To: lentulusgracchus
Ancestor of actress LeeLee Sobieski?
Rules dammit!!!
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posted on
01/13/2008 3:14:06 AM PST
by
kb2614
(Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
To: canuck_conservative
You obviously haven’t been following this one...
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posted on
01/13/2008 4:30:01 AM PST
by
jeddavis
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