Sam's post on a book review in the eXile reminded me I haven't visited their page for a while. One of my favorites is the "War Nerd," though I'm not sure why. Maybe because he doesn't mince words... Here's his take on the whole "Greater Albania" issue. The way I've...
War Street Journal: “Our Friends, the Serbs”?!
There's that old canard that no press is bad press. Certainly, with everything that's been written about them over the past decade or so, the Serbs should know that's a lie. But sometimes "good" press is excruciatingly bad press, too. Consider an October 6 editorial...
“Ramparts of Christendom?”
The insufferable Jeffrey T. Kuhner, Washington Times' chief Croat apologist, abuses logic and truth in his most recent commentary. Kuhner claims that Bosnian Muslims insist on a unified, centrally governed Bosnia despite the opposition of more than half the country's...
A Croatian Judge’s “History”
"The accused and his ancestors have been riding our backs for 80 years," says the opinion of a Croatian judge who convicted a local Serb of 'war crimes'. According to the Croatian weekly "Feral Tribune," when ruling in the case on June 30, Judge Branko Milanovic went...
Mongolians in Iraq? What the…?
A recently linked-to article in Stars and Stripes proudly proclaims that a Mongolian contingent has finished U.S. peacekeepr training and is ready to deploy to Iraq. This surely ranks as one of the worst ideas ever - save for invading Iraq to begin with, of course....
Iraq – or Kosovo?
Chris Floyd of the Moscow Times had a column last week about the occupation forces' use of Saddam's secret police to govern the "new" Iraq. Floyd's style is so cutting edge, I would hardly be surprised if Imperial officials actually bled after reading this stuff....
Blasting statism in Serbia
In yesterday's issue of NIN weekly, Serbian political commentator Aleksandar Tijanic writes about the late PM Zoran Djindjic and his alleged nemesis, Colonel Milorad "Legija" Lukovic, deconstructing them both as the same type of character, the ambition-driven...
Serbia troop offer and officer purges
Serbian news weekly "NIN," dated August 14, 2003, comments on Prime Minister Zivkovic's infamous troop offer: "Given that government representatives first denied the reports from America, then methodically spun the tone of Zivkovic's offer, and later hastily tried to...
Kosovo priest: Murder at Gorazdevac Illustrates reality
From Rascia-Prizren Diocese Newsletter, August 14, 2003: "Yesterday’s crime against the Serb children of the village of Gorazdevac near Pec has deeply shaken all Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija and throughout Serbia and left behind it a numbing pain and an awful feeling...
Plunderers in Serbia
According to the Financial Times, Ms Kori Udovicki, "a Yale-educated economist and former expert on Yugoslavia for the International Monetary Fund" is the new head of the Serbian central bank. The choice should not be surprising. Udovicki is a Statist economist to...
