A Comment About

Serbs Storm U.S. Embassy in Belgrade

February 21, 2008 - 11:30 am - by Stephen Schwartz
Robert
2008-02-22 16:33:03

Dear Sirs.
Being a half slovenian-half croat living in Slovenia, I, according to your rasistic insult to common sense called article, have all the reasons to hate serbs.
But I don’t.
You see, I was here when things happened. I have bosnian, croat, albanian, serb friends. They are all amazing people.
I see ordinary serbs as warm, welcoming and intelligent bunch of people. Sadly, truth is also that they just don’t have lucky hand when picking their leaders. Only quality their leaders possessed was incredible power to manipulate. But it happened before and elsewhere, too.
Of course, their history has many black spots. But all the balkan nations have them. You see, we are just peons on a chessboard in a game of chess played by big powers. Always played against each other.

Burning your embassy was extremely stupid thing to do. It was done by a handful of idiots with absolutely no right to represent a nation in whole. Ask any ordinary serb about it – they might be even angrier as you are. Because as far as i can remember, they were always pro-western. They turned to russia because there was no one else left for them to turn to.
As for the facts you represented, well, that is beyond any criticism.
You are perfectly entitled to be pro-independence, but don’t disqualify whole nation in attempt to justify your stance.