History Point

I'm pretty sure we bore the West with our "Balkan turmoil". Still.
The recent tribunal case clearly showed different vantage points to, well, anything. The weakling Croatian diplomacy alas never succeeded in portraying the war as an act of agression. First, to a westerner, all countries here are alike, exacerbated by the fact the war methods were sometimes identical, if not in scale.
And it is Dubrovnik in particular that these idiots could have used as proof: there had been no murky killings, Serbs constituted but some 4% of the total population, only to get organised and in a matter of a day collectively leave without warning to their neighbours - and watch the shelling from the other side.
True, things can be all things to all people. I recently talked to a Croatian-Serb mongrel that left for Milan, and I must say I understand.
However, what I dislike are people that fail to comprehend the larger picture, together with a few loose unresolved strands. Next they try something rationally, and end up with a conclusion Dubrovnik Serbs have right to their property. As you can imagine, this justly represents the red cloth being waved in front of Croatians.
If Slovenes and Croatians wanted to dismantle Yugoslavia, they were also actively pushed out by impossible solutions proposed by Milosevic, the original looney. My hero, James Baker, US Secretary, visited the guy only a day before the war started. Now, this is a transcript I'd truly care to see.
Yesterday's Guardian reads as follows: "After Obama had finished speaking, Logan Price, a member of the Bradley Manning Support Network, engaged the president for several minutes in debate over Manning's charges and the effect of WikiLeaks. "I can't conduct diplomacy on open source, that's not how the world works", Obama can be heard telling Price on video." Yes, this must be very safe for us.