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Far from indicating Serbia’s readiness to cower into the vivisection kennel, Tadic’s victory on February 3 was the last chance for the U.S. and the EU to stop the Kosovo trainwreck. Both http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3503 decided to play va banque instead. Serbia’s resulting anger against the West will translate into the well-deserved demise for the DS and other “pro-Western democrats” at the parliamentary election on May 11.
The collapse of Serbia’s government on Saturday was unsurprising and necessary. Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica finally stated what we’ve known for months: that his coalition government “has no united policy any more on an important issue related to the future of the country, on Kosovo as a part of Serbia.” The immediate cause of the split was the refusal of two pro-Western parties in the coalition to support Kostunica’s position that Serbia would only seek to be integrated into the EU if it can do so intact, with Kosovo.The underlying causes of the rift are complex. Their explanation requires semantic clarity that is absent among Western analysts of Balkan affairs and their Serbian colleagues alike. Thirteen years of Slobodan Milosevic’s rule in Serbia have left many ugly marks on the political and cultural scene of the country. One of them, of a secondary order yet illustrative of the country’s mood, is the reluctance of participants in Serbia’s public discourse to use certain eminently useful words, such as “conspiracy,” “enemy,” and “treason.”
Those words have a clear meaning and semantic utility, but they are suspect in today’s Serbia (no less than the word Volksgemeinschaft is suspect in Germany) because they have become associated with the spirit of Milosevic’s era. Having been over-used and abused by his domestic propaganda outlets to malign his foreign foes and domestic political rivals alike, they are considered unclean. The legal, rhetorical, and moral weight of those three words was devalued by Milosevic and his inept media bosses no less than the country’s currency was devalued by his Weimar-style hyperinflation.
In reality there had been many full-bloodied conspirators, enemies, and traitors among the Serbs’ foes throughout the 1990s. In 1993, for instance, Bill Clinton actively conspired with the mullahs in Tehran to smuggle arms to Bosnia’s Muslim mujaheddin, in blatant violation of the very UN resolution which the United States had proposed a year earlier. Albright’s brutal ruse at Rambouillet in February 1999, executed with all the subtlety of Reinhardt Heydrich or Zia ul Haq, was a conspiracy against peace par excellence. Its perpetrators were Serbia’s enemies in the technical, rather than ideological, sense of that term.
A semantically precise description of political events is the prerequisite for their proper understanding and analysis. We need those three words to explain accurately and adequately what has been going on in connection with Kosovo over the past few months.
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