On Serbia, Kosovo, and Kicking the Can Down the Road

Igor Moczko

Igor is a data worker, lover of audiobooks and cats, and an adopted Michigander.

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6 Responses

  1. George Turner says:

    Grenell setting the White House Press corps on fire wasn’t part of the deal, but may be it’s greatest achievement.Report

    • Tens of thousands died in the Serbia/Kosovo conflicts and the entire region is economically unstable but yes, George, Grenell yelling at the media was the monumental achievement. Bully for him…Report

      • George Turner in reply to Andrew Donaldson says:

        My old chat buddy ran a team of Kosovars to hunt Serb war criminals. Amusingly, one of them asked her to dinner because he wanted to meet the hot American blonde who was hunting him, and she went with nothing but her 9mm in her back waistband! He was very nice for a genocidal maniac. For a long while the UN wouldn’t touch him because the Serbs were holding a couple of French pilots, but years later she sent me a story where UN forces had just captured him that day and were dragging him before the war crimes tribunal. She was laughing herself silly over it. 🙂

        As an aside, her local team was a pretty rough looking bunch who were missing a lot of teeth.Report

    • He was righteously snippy.Report

  2. North says:

    Great analysis!
    The thing about peace agreements, though, is that if you kick the can down the road and maintain a peaceful status quo long enough the peace thing has a serious chance of settling in.Report

  3. Fish says:

    I spent four months in Sarajevo as part of SFOR in 1998. My time there included mini-deployments to Tuzla and Mostar and a three-day pass to Makarska in Croatia. My time there was pretty easy as deployments go, aside from the occasional scary run-in with unexploded ordnance or a lockdown because we’d (the royal we, obviously–I ain’t no highly-trained bad-ass) nicked a war criminal and whisked him off to The Hague.

    The Balkans are absolutely beautiful and my experiences with the people were all mostly positive. After decades of unrest since before the death of Tito, the people deserve some peace.Report