Interesting commentary:
<<< . . . Most Serbs, therefore, regarded it as a sick joke when Western governments claimed that Djindjic had been assassinated by Legija’s men because he was fighting organized crime. Although spivvery had certainly existed under Milosevic, an inevitable consequence of sanctions and war, it had only really let rip under Djindjic.
Serbian society is now so totally criminalized, indeed, that Serbs naturally assume that the West itself was somehow implicated in Djindjic’s murder. They speculate that Djindjic may have been finally getting too big for his boots; that he was starting to get awkward over the West’s failure to pay promised aid; and that several big contracts were about to go to German interests rather than American ones. They also point out that Djindjic was one of the few Eastern European leaders who refused to sign a letter of support for the Anglo-American position on Iraq in March. If such conspiracy theories seem outlandish, it should be remembered that the West had already brought Mafia regimes to power in neighboring Albania, Kosovo, and Montenegro, while it has also strenuously and successfully supported the integration into the Macedonian government of Albanian terrorists, drug-runners, and people-traffickers . . . >>>
Nation Building: Why Bombs Don’t Make Democracies
By John Laughland
amconmag.com |
