Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Stereotyping Serbians by Milosevic's Actions
Here is a copy of the Letter to the Editor I sent to Newsweek today:
"The Death of a Monster" - Slobodan Milosevic
March 20, 2006
Before the United States invaded Iraq we made a distinction between the Saddam Hussein, his political party and the people he ruled. In President Bush’s 2006 State of the Union Address he very specifically differentiated between the Iranian people and their controvertial President. We even differentiate between Afghans and the Taliban. Yet, whenever an article is published about Slobodan Milosevic I never read one line differentiating the tyrannical dictator and his nationalist party from the Serbian people he exploited. Why hasn’t the United States or the UN come to the aid of the Serbs as they attempt to establish a democracy? My guess is that there is no significant political advantage or profit to be made in the Balkans. Too bad Albanian Muslims destroyed 30 Christian Churches in Kosovo in 2004; 200,000 Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies have fled the province of Kosovo due to a recent ethnic cleansing campaign; and more than 2,000 non-Albanians have either been killed or kidnapped since 1999. Good thing the United Nations is there “keeping the peace.”
"The Death of a Monster" - Slobodan Milosevic
March 20, 2006
Before the United States invaded Iraq we made a distinction between the Saddam Hussein, his political party and the people he ruled. In President Bush’s 2006 State of the Union Address he very specifically differentiated between the Iranian people and their controvertial President. We even differentiate between Afghans and the Taliban. Yet, whenever an article is published about Slobodan Milosevic I never read one line differentiating the tyrannical dictator and his nationalist party from the Serbian people he exploited. Why hasn’t the United States or the UN come to the aid of the Serbs as they attempt to establish a democracy? My guess is that there is no significant political advantage or profit to be made in the Balkans. Too bad Albanian Muslims destroyed 30 Christian Churches in Kosovo in 2004; 200,000 Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies have fled the province of Kosovo due to a recent ethnic cleansing campaign; and more than 2,000 non-Albanians have either been killed or kidnapped since 1999. Good thing the United Nations is there “keeping the peace.”
