Kosovo and the Myth of Serbian Depravity

[Jonathan]

Pajamas Media were kind enough to post my response (http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/03/kosovo_and_the_myth_of_serbian.php) to Stephen Schwartz's bigoted anti-Serb diatribe. (http://www.pajamasmedia.com/2008/02/heroic_serbs_storm_us_embassy.php)

If you are easily offended, then avoid Schwartz's piece. It is one of the most blatantly bigoted articles I have seen in years.

[zastava]

good rebuttal ( although id take issue with your defence of Israel regarding human rights violations and war crimes) . The article you replied to was nothing more than a bitter and racist diatribe against the entire serbian people and nation . Absolutely horrendous stuff . Its like something Borats more articulate cousin would write about a country and a race of people . Disgraceful . Where you to read that article youd think there was no Ustashe ever existed , no Bosnian Muslim SS divison , no serb uprising against serbian collaborators , nogenoicde committed against serbs during WW2 . Its racist propaganda and nothing more .
I was living in england and had a serbian college freind when the yugoslav state began to disintegrate and right from the word go the western media were demonising the serbian people . This was even at the stage of the slovenian secession which went pretty much uncontested and long before srebrinica or the sieges of Vukovar and Sarajevo . Being from Ireland and with a healthy scepticism of the British media agenda ingrained into me from childhood it was clear to me there was a definite political agenda being played out in the media coverage , and an endgame in mind . Yugoslavia and particularly serbia simply did not fit into the new world order . Yes serbs commited war crimes and atrocities , but so did everybody else . Serb wrongdoing was magnified at every opportunity, others wrongdoing was simply ignored completely . With this agenda in play and an entire people being satanised week in week out for almost a decade it was clear to me very early on the endgame was military action against serbia and the throwing of international law out the window and the precedent of setting a nations sovereignty aside being firmly established by those with a new world order firmly in mind .

[Jonathan]

Thanks for the comments.

There is a new brouhaha now, this time it is Michael Totten who has given Belgrade and Serbs a bad review.

http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/michael-trotten-on-belgrade/

[Charlie]

Have to say I agree with Jonathan. Belgrade, Serbia and it's people have been nothing but hospitable to me (sometimes, overly hospitable for a reserved Brit!). I cannot identify with any of the propoganda that was present before I came here. My education on Serbian actions throughout the past 10 years is being rapidly revised.