The Serb-apologists around here attempt to "explain" the Chetniks' behavior in terms of "prior bad behavior" by Oric and this elicits no protest from you, but when I point out that this perverse logic can be reversed, I am excoriated as a naive liberal of the Hitchens variety. What transparent bullshit. Further BS is the notion that "there were no 'good guys' in Bosnia." When Kurds in Turkey or Mayas in Guatemala or Timorese in Indonesia or (dare I say it?) Palestinians in the Occupied Territories get slapped around the way Muslim Slavs and Albanians did in the former Yugoslavia, all us lefties are supposed to run to their defense. The PKK and Palestinian factions have committed plenty of thuggeries, but this doesn't prevent us from recognizing the "good guys." But in Bosnia we resort to bogus equivalism. Pathetic.

Still more pathetic is the notion that Milosevic was somehow protecting the Titoist system. Nobody did more to destroy it. He came out of the banking bureaucracy, for crissakes, and acquiesced in IMF-imposed austerity all the way back in the 1980s. Then, instead of blaming the IMF for the resultant economic agony like a real socialist would, he blamed the Albanians for having too many babies and stealing Serbian jobs, the way Pat Buchanan blames Mexicans here in the good ol' USA. And you fall for this fascist shit? And then have the chutzpah to play a lefter-than-thou card?

By the way, I am facing eviction proceedings at the moment, so I will thank you to refrain from commenting on my supposed insensitivity to people who "have bills to pay."