Governments start wars, and win or lose wars. The average person always loses: If he is on the "winning side", his taxes go up; if his government is on the losing side, he may lose his life or be wounded, and/or his standard of living is diminished. In war, most are losers.
In Yugoslavia, Milosevic is a winner because he "stood up" to NATO, became stronger internally, and is still in power. The real shame of this is that Milosevic will likely never be brought to justice. He played a pivotal role in starting all three recent Balkans wars (Slovenia, Bosnia and Croatia, and Kosovo) by whipping up Serbian nationalism to prop up his corrupt regime. I might add that he has gotten rich off of black marketing (i.e. sanctions running) and outright corruption. |
