tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post145702121909343680..comments2023-10-28T05:02:10.442-04:00Comments on Americans For Bosnia: Michael Dobbs Illustrates that the Lessons of Bosnia Haven't Been Heeded by allKirk Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879908614214050994noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-40611224976517018792008-08-19T21:48:00.000-04:002008-08-19T21:48:00.000-04:00"""""It is difficult to explain why Kosovo should ..."""""It is difficult to explain why Kosovo should have the right to unilaterally declare its independence from Serbia, while the same right should be denied to places such as South Ossetia and Abkhazia."""""<BR/><BR/>no, it's not dificult to explain at all.<BR/><BR/>the question is: how many people are willing to listen to such explanation???<BR/><BR/>very few, because the arguments of reason and justice are nothing compared with the excitment of a brand new 'age-old' ethnic conflict.<BR/><BR/><BR/>then when you try to explain it, you are just seen as biased, emotionally attached to the question, or, anti-serb and anti-russian.<BR/><BR/>this is so frustrating... <BR/><BR/>I agree with you, the lessons in Bosnia are yet to be learned. ever since I started studying this, only once it happened that a disagreement or divergence in point of views turned personal: this was when an american who had worked as an adviser to shvartz-shilling told me that it was not fair that republika srpska was denied self-determination.<BR/><BR/>I was totally disgusted, because this man said publickly that he had adopted a Muslim orphan...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com