tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192194.post2194415120055967239..comments2023-06-05T12:15:30.783+01:00Comments on East Ethnia: Discussion at the Serbian cabinetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192194.post-71310203460179503962008-02-25T22:50:00.000+00:002008-02-25T22:50:00.000+00:00Don't worry. Having been right about him is no com...Don't worry. Having been right about him is no comfort. Especially when it made no difference. In fact it's frustrating. At least you have the luxury of now being (I'm going to assume only mildly) surprised.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12671511208885778828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192194.post-64967455038683112332008-02-25T08:41:00.000+00:002008-02-25T08:41:00.000+00:00I think it is time to send a note to all of my fri...I think it is time to send a note to all of my friends to whom, when they started saying just these things about Kostunica, I replied "ma ajde, ne preteruj."Eric Gordyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08743744653177736119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192194.post-40637975407340361402008-02-24T03:57:00.000+00:002008-02-24T03:57:00.000+00:00After reading Norman Cigar's "Vojislav Kostunica a...After reading Norman Cigar's "Vojislav Kostunica and Serbia's Future" and digging a little further to find out who this man is and how and what he thinks, I was convinced that until he's gone nothing good can happen. That's why it was so frustrating to keep hearing him referred to as part of the "democratic bloc" and the EU applaud the ridiculous constitution he rammed through. I have no doubt that he is serious and very determined in his beliefs. Yet he is always underestimated. Very scary. <BR/><BR/>I thought about that Sutanovac comment for a moment. It crossed my mind that he may have meant "I and the army I am in charge of will stand in front of those wimps." In fact, in an interview with Blic http://www.blic.co.yu/politika.php?id=31608<BR/>Goran Svilanovic suggests that DSS/NS is using "their" resources to incite chaos, while the DS/G17 side is using "theirs" to stop it. The feudal structure of this government can become dangerous in an unstable situation such as this. <BR/><BR/>My favourite sentence in the whole article, which applies metapohircally and now sadly literally to the entire life of the DS-DSS coalition:<BR/><BR/>Vlada se ponela potpuno šizofreno, jedni su palili, drugi su gasili.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12671511208885778828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192194.post-70887982220153973242008-02-24T01:19:00.000+00:002008-02-24T01:19:00.000+00:00Yes, I think this is what is most bothersome. It i...Yes, I think this is what is most bothersome. It is one thing if he indulges in a little demagoguery, but this is what he was saying when he thought nobody was listening.<BR/><BR/>The other surprise: who knew Sutanovac was secretly Clint Eastwood?Eric Gordyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08743744653177736119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192194.post-17063105016289451422008-02-23T20:19:00.000+00:002008-02-23T20:19:00.000+00:00Kostunica is crazy. Full stop. Since his becoming ...Kostunica is crazy. Full stop. Since his becoming Prime Minister I have been saying to people with whom I have talked about this, that with a man like that in a key role, Serbia will never, ever move ahead. He simply has to be marginalized and politically eliminated. A lot of people responded with things like "oh come on, he's just posturing, that's just the public image, he doesn't believe half of what he says",and my favourite "ma sve to oni rade za pare." I think that making a comment like he did, in a closed cabinet meeting, far away from the public and from any media, shows that he believes all of the (increasingly) bizarre things he says. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, a lot of people have been taken in by his image as someone who is weak, uninformed, slow and indecisive (mlitav, spor, neinformisan). Of all the politicians in Serbia, I think he has the clearest idea of what he wants, he does nothing by accident, and so far, he has been very successful in remaining in power. DS and Tadic made a huge mistake in underestimating him and allowing themselves to waste their credibility by being accomplices to all this. If the street violence and hatred spewing from the mouths of the DSS/NS faction aren't enough evidence that the plug needs to be pulled on this government, I don't know what is. There is absolutely no "greater cause" that Tadic/DS could possibly be comprising for any more.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12671511208885778828noreply@blogger.com