War With Trolls
Albanian puppets and their handlers. The text reads: Independent Kosovo!
Old Nobodaddy
Then old Nobodaddy aloft
Farted and belched and coughed,
And said, ‘I love hanging and drawing and quartering
Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.’
William Blake
Among other things, Serbs are these days a perfect example for the wise old warning: Never lose a war. Because if you do, not only will you be hanged and quartered and forced to eat mud for the rest of your days, you'll also get innumerable Nobodaddy's pissing on your leg and telling you it's raining.
Today, a Nobodaddy named Martin Sletzinger suggested a compromise solution for Kosovo could be based on “a revision of existing borders.” Not surprisingly, what this troll considers Serbia's “existing borders” are the non-existent borders of Serbia-proper: instead of Serbia's southern border with Albania, Sletzinger is talking about the “border” with Kosovo. So, in short, Sletzinger decided to give Serbian southern province of Kosovo away to Albanians, and now he is generously offering one half of one city in the same Serbian province to Serbs.
Very nice, I love it when the trolls fall back to their original Serbs-are-morons strategy.
Another Nobodaddy, a German pen-pusher Joachim Ruecker recently assigned to head the administrative leg of the UN Mission in Kosovo, rushed to announce Serbian province will be taken away from Serbs who, being bad and unworthy, deserve to lose 15 percent of their territory.
Director of the Serbian government's Office of Media Relations Srdjan Djuric felt the German troll (already!) needs to be reminded of his duties which, incidentally, exclude free-hand map redrawing and include bringing to justice Albanian Muslims who have committed hundreds of unpunished crimes against Serbs in the province.
Ahtisaari, the Troll King
But none of it quite matches the audacity of Martti Ahtisaari who, from his position of the UN special envoy for Kosovo status negotiations, decided it is time to issue a final verdict, that “Serbs as a people are responsible” for the war against Albanian al-Qaeda, the terrorist KLA, suggesting loss of Kosovo and Metohija will be another installment of the price Serbs are expected to pay without batting an eyelash.
The accusation was hurled on August 8 this year, in Vienna, and thrown into Serbian delegation's face while they were taking part in the negotiations over the future status of southern Serbian province. Coordinators of the Serbian government's negotiating team Leon Kojen and Slobodan Samardzic had sent a letter to Ahtisaari on August 10 demanding that he explains his statement. Since they received no response until yesterday, Kojen and Samardzic went public with the biased envoy's deplorable statement, repeating their demand for explanation.
Pressed to respond, the decrepit troll simply said that “every nation has a burden to pay for” and used the opportunity to push the blade an inch deeper:
The democratic leadership in Serbia today cannot be held accountable for the actions of Slobodan Milošević, but the leaders in Belgrade have to face the heritage and responsibility, because this historical heritage cannot be ignored, but rather must be taken into account in the process of finding a solution for the future status of Kosovo.
Notwithstanding the fact Slobodan Milošević did much less and much later than any president of any state in the world would have in the face of the organized armed insurgence aided by Bin Laden and foreign intelligence services, and dedicated to starting a war in order to carve up part of the state Milošević swore to protect, Ahtisaari is saying that the Serbian democratic leadership cannot be responsible for Milošević's terribleness, but it is responsible. The “historical heritage” of a 1,500 years old state with Kosovo and Metohija as its Jerusalem, according to Nobodaddy Ahtisaari, is limited to the “heritage” of 1998-1999 war with terrorist KLA. And Serbian democratic leadership “has to face responsibility” for this war because they must and have to. Did I miss something? Is this man a complete idiot, or does he just think Serbs are?
Cause and Effect
The very same evening after the KLA-fan supposedly representing United Nations has finished publicly repeating the insult and issuing the verdict to Serbian people, a sixteen year old Albanian Muslim Adem Dibrani walked across the bridge to predominantly Serbian part of town of Kosovska Mitrovica and threw a bomb into a coffee-shop. Among the injured was also a member of NATO troops stationed in Kosovo.
Following Ahtisaari's accusation that triggered the attack, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica issued a public statement:
Ahtisaari's declaration of Serbian national guilt has produced the prompt reaction from Albanian separatists - throwing a grenade at innocent Kosovo Mitrovica citizens.
Both the Albanian terrorists and the representatives of the international community who, through their actions or inaction are continuously encouraging the terrorists, bear equal responsibility for this crime.
At the moment when the negotiations over the just and sustainable solution for the future status of Kosovo and Metohija are in full swing, the gestures and statements of Martti Ahtisaari, the UN Secretary General's special envoy, are causing all the greater bewilderment and raising serious concerns. Although Ahtisaari was given a mandate to enable the negotiations that would lead to a historically just compromise and a solution based on the rules of the international law, Ahtisaari seems to be bent on doing everything contrary to his task.
On many occasions, in a more or less veiled way, he has pointed out that compromise and negotiations are pointless, since the solution that only remains to be implemented already exists: independent Kosovo. For this solution which is directly opposed to the basic principles of the international law Ahtisaari has now offered his explanation: ‘Serbs as a people are guilty.’ This way, Ahtisaari has joined the proponents of the most sinister notion in the history of humanity, that of the collective responsibility of entire nations.
For this reason, Ahtisaari has not just trampled over the mandate he was entrusted with, but has also engaged in a war with the international law, democratic values and historical facts. As the history has already recorded, one dangerous precedent Ahtisaari is sponsoring cannot remain unique and singled out. The issue that is jeopardizing the integrity of the Serbian state today could soon plague other countries and the entire world.
This is precisely why the world's democratic community has to respond appropriately to this type of lethal ideas and propositions.
Price of Peace
Not so long ago, Henrik Ibsen concluded that “to live is to war with trolls.” As a Serbian, until fifteen years ago, I didn't even know so many trolls crawl around, let alone that so many of them occupy the highest positions on the world scene. But, as a Serbian, I'm afraid there is another quote that is much closer to the people I belong to: We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets (Douglas Jerrold).
Perhaps it is time for the international trolls to take a cue from Serbian history (which happens to be a bit longer then the past 15 years) and start treading lightly over the certain ground, lest they wish to get the Serbs thinking they are being chained all over again. The unlimited patience, alas, is far from being Serbian strongest trait.
Cartoon by Zoran Matic - Mazos
Comments
Very well sewn together particularly considering all this happened only in the last couple of days.
I'm interested in what you think will happen in Kosovo in the next year or so and what do you propose?
Posted by: bganon | August 27, 2006 11:30 AM
Unfortunately, I think what goes under the “international community,” infested with aggressive globalists and Albanian lobbyists, will grant independence to Kosovo - “conditional” or non-conditional, it doesn't matter how they word it, that is what they're gathering steam for.
Serbian current government has offered everything to Albanian side except independence; if their proposition would be accepted, Kosovo and Metohija would really be a state within the state. The only thing they would not have under such agreement is the separate army and a seat in the UN. Frankly, I think they offered too much anyway, but interestingly enough, as soon as Serbian overly generous proposition became public, the ICG trolls advising the terrorist KLA, suggested they must have an army and the Albanians set things into motion to get one, in the midst of negotiations.
I think there's no question about what will Serbs do when Kosovo is officially cut off. We'll continue to consider Kosovo and Metohija an integral part of Serbian land that is occupied and under siege. The only thing to do in such a situation is to free that part of the country and, since all other means will have been exhausted, the war will be the only way to free and reclaim Kosovo.
Posted by: Svetlana | August 27, 2006 01:23 PM
I agree that the decision has already been made. That doesnt mean that the Serbian side has to go along with it. But it is the reality that people have to face upto.
My opinion is that in a few years time the Serbs and (Kosovo) Albanians will come together to negotiate properly and that partition will take place.
Its the kind of thing that Cosic has been advocating for the last few years. The Albanians will feel comfortable 'giving away' part of their new state of 'Kosova' and the Serbian side could offer Bujanovac in return. (Lets face the reality - Serbs in certain areas such as Bujanovac are moving out, in a few years time there could be serious calls for annexation to 'Kosova').
An agreement of this kind might cause some real kind of peace or it could equally stimulate increased Albanian action for a Greater Albania - which could cause a severe backfire by their sponsors in the West. This makes me think that the more moderate Albanians will be much more wary of dividing Kosovo and that the majority nationalist population will be much more willing to split Kosovo.
My own feelings dont come into this much. I would like to see as many Serbs (and other minorities) as possible live in Kosovo in peace. I believe they would be more likely to do so under Serbian jurisdiction. The logical (and more likely) move is partition even if my gut is against it.
cheers
Posted by: bganon | August 28, 2006 11:20 AM
The thing is that questions about the future of Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija are not simply an emotional issue which we cannot allow to cloud our judgment. On the contrary, in my opinion this is predominantly about justice, the international law and and the overwhelmingly accepted values on which the civilized world is built.
While we would all like to just love one another and get along, partitioning or signing off a good portion of state's territory just because a militant foreign minority wants it and doesn't mind killing for it, isn't something that any government or nation would or should accept as a fair price of "peace".
If this was solely the issue for Serbs to come to terms with their "emotions", there wouldn't be so many activists, intellectuals and legal experts around the world opposing the idea of amputating Serbian Jerusalem from Serbia and warning that such a precedent can only have dire consequences for every nation, triggering chaos and law of the jungle in place of the rule of law and order.
Posted by: Svetlana | August 28, 2006 02:48 PM