[A. Pole]

The mass media's take is that the poor Muslims in the Balkans were pure and innocent victims of inexplicable Serbian aggression.

The Milosevic-fellating take is that the poor Serbs were pure and innocent victims of inexplicable Croatian and Muslim and American and British aggression.

Milosevic is Red Herring here. Of course it is not possible in a prolonged civil war for any side to remain innocent. The fact is that Western mass media took side of "good" Muslims and Croatians against the "evil" Serbs. This provided propaganda cover for the two main crimes of this civil war - the accomplished extirpation of Krajina and the ongoing extirpation of Serbs in Kosovo.

The absurdity of anti-Serbian propaganda is well illustrated by a movie - The Sum of All Fears where it is Serbs who are the nuclear terrorists.

The vilification of Serbs is uncannily similar to the vilification of Jews by the Nazis. Even the caricatures of Serbs often resembled the pictures from Der Sturmer.

Human nature does not change, it is not PC anymore to hate Jews, so the Serbs satisfy the need to have the demonized group.

I am still hoping that some day you decide to take the red pill and read the book :)

[wideawake]

Milosevic is Red Herring here.

Not at all. The thread is about an individual who supported Milosevic, met with him and was an honored speaker at his funeral.

Of course it is not possible in a prolonged civil war for any side to remain innocent.

Of course. That's obvious.

This provided propaganda cover for the two main crimes of this civil war

Yes, the media did spin against the Serbs. That's a far cry from establishing that NATO controls the media and instructed them to do so.