IMO Germany is just one of the latest in a long list of participants who have tried to shape the Balkans in their own image, only to find out that they really had no lasting effect at all, other than to give the indigenous population another excuse to throw themselves at each other's throats in what by now must be a reflex action that is engrained into their collective psyches, perhaps into their very DNA..
Maybe NATO's actions in the Balkans will have no more lasting effect than the centuries of other forces that have come and gone, leaving the Balkans much as they were before, hateful, with a mind for nothing more horizon expanding than exacting revenge.
If nothing else, maybe NATO can establish a fire break, isolating Yugoslavia from it's neighbors, while they burn themselves out.
Until the next round. |
