Posted on 01/12/2008 11:57:56 PM PST by Bokababe
Serbia refuses to give up Kosovo—even if it means giving up its shot at entering the European Union.
There's a dark joke going around Serbia these days: "Russia finished the cold war with America—so Serbia is carrying on with it." Given the hostile stance of the two former superpowers over Kosovo, the assessment may be close to the mark. This week Washington heads to the United Nations Security Council's debate on Kosovo, with most of Europe alongside it, pressing for independence. But Serbia's Parliament has overwhelmingly rejected any future EU-imposed mission in Kosovo, and stands with the support of Russia and a growing list of countries including China, Indonesia and South Africa in its refusal to part with the region—even, according to Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, if it means shelving EU membership talks.
Serbia, it seems, has flipped the tables on the EU. For the first time, a European country outside the EU is not clamoring to be let in, but, on the contrary, making demands of its own, insisting Europe continue negotiations over Kosovo until an agreeable solution to all parties is met.....
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“We’re not interested in joining the Modern world, we like the Medieval one just fine.”
- Serbia
If it wasn’t for the Serbs, Europe would have been speeking Turkish for the last few hundred years.
The article and its author lose me when, in the second sentence, the author claims the US is a “former superpower.”
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.
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.
Except that Serbia has ties to Russia that go way, way, waaaaayyy back. The US isn’t cutting those ties anytime soon.
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.
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.
Can we get a favorable mention for the Byzantine Greeks? They stalled them for centuries.
Ancestor of actress LeeLee Sobieski?
Go Serbia!
If I were Serbia, I would do exactly the same thing.
>>But they did a good job of keeping the Turks at bay for a while.<<
Yes, the Serbs made excellent cannon-fodder!
You obviously haven’t been following this one...
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