Sorry to say,you haven`t got a clue!
But,I am gratefull to you for opening my eyes:nothing in Balkans is black or white!?
But,why are your flipant remarks and posts so black and white?
You remind me of Hoplite:if you don`t like the answer you throw insults!
Furthermore,I agree with Kosta that you like throwing arround names,but without a basic,let alone,profound knowlege about names (people)mentioned or their work!
Starchevich and Ilia Garashanin are incomparable.In every sense.
And,let me tell you something about ideas:they don`t have a sell by date.
Ilia Garashanin was a foreign minister in Serbia,when he had "drawn" a "Blueprint"(Nachertanie).The year was 1848,the time of massive European Romanticysm and revival of national aspirations of many nations in Mittel Europa!Chechs and Slovacs,Poles ...When Garashanin made Nachertanie it was a desire of an occupied,semi-indenpendent Christian nation under Islam,to be indenpendent after 450 years.And of one nation to live together,in the same state.
At that time,there was no Croatian state,just Habzburg Empire.Garashanin does not talk about Croats ,wish them no evil.There is no criticisum of other nations,or racism!
Nachertanie was a private document,which was not published,or implemented it practice.
Garashanin did not organize a political party (like Starchevich) and he was not spreading inflamatory hatred to Serbian people!Serbia,at that time had more important problems to deal with.
Serbia could have created Grater Serbia at the end of the WWI,but it did not,because the idea has never been official policy of Serbian people.
To compare Garashanin and Starchevich is ridiculous and loughable.Know the subject,Wonk,before you start lecturing some of us.
Your disregard and disrespect for history is dangerous and very contradictory!?
You want to deal with Islamic presence in Balkans by forcing Balkanoids to "stop wallowing in history",which is,I guess,un-American way of thinking,right!And,we are all stupid idiots.But,problem is,you have discovered Islamic(fundamentalist) threat after 9/11.That is the day when history has begun,because,USA was hit!
Well,you`re only 600 years late.pall!
So,now,we all have to say :Yes,Sir! and abandone all that has happened before,because,you say so?
Only your pain is relevant,and your version of history.
But,thank you for the marching orders,anyway!
And,don`t think that you are "power in charge".
Maybe,your government is...No wonder that your posts look like Rumsfelds memos!
Don`t insult other people and be arrogant.You don`t have a credit on FR to do that.
And,if you don`t like Balkan threads,you can always go away!