Word: balkanize
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Prominent political opponents of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic agreed last night that free elections and other trappings of democracy are essential to stabilizing the fractious Balkan region...
...good heart. It must also be received with a good heart. Only such reciprocity can set in motion the dynamic of apology and forgiveness and transcendence: a powerful, liberating force for all concerned. (Consider the evil power of the opposite dynamic--hatred, revenge and the bloody shirt, the Balkan way of transmitting rage from one generation to the next...
Because of the Republican frontrunners' positions, it seems the American people won't have any foreign policy choices in the general election. Regardless which party wins, America will administer multiple Balkan protectorates, give out war guarantees as easily as they would popcorn and starve millions of innocent foreigners because they won't install the stooges of Uncle Sam. Although the next American president will have to pass judgement on whether or not it is in our interests to make Latvia a member of NATO, the electorate will not be able to express an opinion on this matter. It seems parties...
...corruption and repression of the Tudjman era, and his reluctance to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal on Balkan war crimes, earned Croatia pariah status in Europe. "Although the opposition has vowed to work with the Hague Tribunal, don't expect a rush to hand over war crimes suspects," says Anastasijevic. "A lot of current military and police officers are potentially implicated in war crimes, and the new government can't afford to put these people in a corner." Still, the result will have a positive effect on the Balkan regional dynamic. "The most immediate change may occur in Bosnia, where...
...accused the President of "wagging the dog" - attacking a Central European country to divert public attention away from a sex scandal? Well, it turns out Bubba may have just been trying to get back in the good graces of his wife. At least that's the history of the Balkan conflict according to the First Lady's latest biographer, Gail Sheehy. In her forthcoming book "Hillary's Choice," Sheehy says that at the height of Monicagate, an enraged and humiliated Hillary went eight months without talking to her husband, before calling him from Africa last March with a directive...