While logic and morality have never been the hallmark of international politics, is it not curious that Tony Blair, Robin Cook and Bill Clinton are so welcoming to new Yugoslavian premier Vojislav Kostunica, a man who is a far more radical Serbian nationalist than Slobodan Milosevic ever was? Kostunica is a man whose main complaint against Milosevic was not he was a dictator, but that he signed the Bosnian and then the Kosovo peace deals.
He warmly praised the alleged war criminal Radovan Karadzic and criticised the war crimes tribunal in the Hague as an instrument of American
policy (which, of course, it is).
Milosevic's presence was merely a convenient excuse to cloak the real objective of NATO's wrath - a Yugoslav state which consistently opposed the spread of the alliance's influence in
Eastern Europe, thereby directly threatening Serbia and Yugoslavia's historic ally.
- Fred Shipton, Donald Hall Road, Bristol Gate Estate, Brighton
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