Leave it to Laura Silber, author of a major propaganda pamphlet about the destruction of Yugoslavia and now a “senior policy advisor” for George Soros’s Open Society Institute, to lay out in the open Empire’s plans for Serbia.
In an opinion piece for the New York Times-owned International Herald Tribune today, titled “Serbian voters bring good tidings,” Silber gushes over the election of Boris Tadic as the last best hope to “set this geographic lynchpin [i.e. Serbia] right once and for all.” Her policy prescriptions are as cringe-worthy as her prose…
Right at the beginning, the article starts oozing bigotry:
“Good news from Serbia is rare. Mass graves, war criminals, economic dysfunction, political assassinations and disregard for international institutions are the usual images and themes in this Balkan land.”
Sadly, even as Silber rants about the evils of Serbian “ultranationalists” (as I noted elsewhere, are there any regular nationalists anymore? And what’s a “nationalist,” anyway?), she indulges in propaganda cliches that would make Orwell’s Ministry of Truth blush. She describes Tadic as “”sophisticated and personable” and calls him a:
“liberal politician who has not espoused anti-American, anti-European or anti-NATO propaganda and who has not tried to explain away Serbia’s woes with insane conspiracy theories.”
Yes, any opposition to American or EU imperialism, NATO aggression, or a widespread campaign to blame all of the Balkan wars on Serbia, is the very definition of insanity in Silber-world (or is it Sorosland?). But there’s more.
Silber urges Europe and the US to “help Serbia resolve the outstanding issues – first the status of Kosovo, but also the dysfunctional union with Montenegro – that hinder real progress towards European integration.”
Though the wording may be somewhat ambiguous here, Silber, her employer, and fellow-travelers such as the ICG, have long advocated carving out both Montenegro and Kosovo as “independent” Imperial client states. The latest ploy is to convince the gullible and delusional Serbians that the price of joining the EU is giving up Kosovo.
Silber also glorifies the assassinated managerial statist Zoran Djindjic and viciously smears current Prime Minister Kostunica. For her – and legions of other “missionaries” of Empire, many paid by Soros as well – there is only One Party, only One Way of achieving the glorious utopia of Democracy: the Democrats (well, duh!). And not just in Serbia; Soros has openly funded anti-Bush campaigns in the United States, supporting the Democratic Party.
The problem, however, is that most Bush detractors (Soros and his satellites included) hate Bush the Emperor, not the American Empire as such. Indeed, they worship it and want nothing more than to put the “right man” (that is, their man) in charge. It should not be surprising that the missionary NGOs flourished during the Age of Clinton, as this was also the era of American Empire writ large. They hate Bush more because he’s done much to discredit the Empire, than because of anything else.
In any case, the cat is out of the bag: Boris Tadic is not a White Knight (well, except for Imperial missionaries) , but a Dark Horse for complete Imperial takeover of Serbia, which is poised to succeed after some 15 years of frustration and several close calls. And just so there are no mistaken inferences that I’m espousing some “insane conspiracy theory,” it was Silber who called Serbia the “geographic lynchpin” of the Balkans, not I.