Dostavio, Mile Nikolić

Dick Holbrooke represents the very worst of American bullying. His brazen support for the KLA terrorists, disregard for international law, pathetic self-aggrandizement, and eternal pursuit of personal financial gain are all well known in Washington. Neither is logic his forte — I remember his stumbling inability to respond at a press conference in the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo when I asked him how the United States was able to affix its seal as a witness to the Dayton Accords when it did not even recognize the existence of one of the contracting parties (The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).

However, there is much good to be found by the Serbs in this man’s very useful flaws.

Just as his Dayton Accords served to finally legitimize Serb interests by giving formal legal status to the Republika Srpska, Holbrooke’s bluster looks likely to help us once again…

Specifically, by overplaying his cards and demanding that Serbia’s subservient U.S.-backed President Tadic do the impossible by recognizing Kosovo, Holbrooke might just deliver yet another dream of all patriotic Serbs who are fighting foreign colonization — Holbrooke might himself block his own collaborators in Belgrade from joining the EU for long enough that the Serbian people will be able to remove them from power and assert Serbian independence once and for all.

So by all means keep it up, Dick! If you succeed in blocking the EU from taking over Serbia by insisting on Kosovo recognition, your name will stand with that of Ratko Mladic as one of the two people who by one method or another saved Serbia’s independence from EU takeover against all odds.

Ah, how sweet it is! Sudbina (fate) intervenes yet again to save the Serbs!

Wishing your (Holbrooke’s) efforts all the best,

John Bosnitch

Journalist

john.b@imcnews.com

On Sep 9, 2008, at 1:31 AM, Nebojsa Malic wrote:

Before I comment on this, I have to share an anecdote.

Back in 1996, my mother was visiting Washington with a group of politicians from Bosnia (she’s a relatively high-ranking Social Democrat, which is a cause of many humorous debates whenever I go visit). At the end of their two-week „democracy education“ (ha!), the State Department suits arranged a press conference. Mom was one of the few who spoke English, so she got to speak, even though she represented the opposition. After she thoroughly embarrassed the „multiethnic“ nationalists, she was angrily approached by Nedzib Sacirbegovic, one of Izetbegovic’s buddies and father of the gambling-prone „foreign minister“ Mohamed, who growled at her, „You should not have spoken like that!“

My mother looked at him, shrugged, and asked, „A vi ste…?“ („And who might you be?“)
He went lobster red, gasped for breath, and stalked off.
It’s still the best political putdown I’ve ever seen, and I’ve lived in Washington for almost a decade now.

Why did I tell you this? Well, because that’s the thing I wonder about Dick Holbrooke these days. Sure, he *was* an Ambassador, and a Deputy SecState and what not, but what is he now? Who exactly does he represent when he says these things… and why should we care?

Nebojsa

Boba wrote:

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12957/

Holbrooke: Tie Serbia’s EU Bid to Kosovo

08 September 2008 Pristina _ The former United States envoy to the Balkans says the EU should not enter into any further agreement with Serbia until Belgrade recognises Kosovo’s independence.

Richard Holbrooke, a former Special Envoy for Bosnia, Kosovo and former American ambassador at the United Nations, said he believes Serbia should join the European Union, “but only after recognising Kosovo.”

“The EU would make a serious mistake if it accepts Serbia while she has pretensions on Kosovo as a part of her territory. That would be very dangerous,” said Holbrooke.

The ex-diplomat made the remarks in Pristina after a meeting with Kosovo’s President Fatmir Sejdiu and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.

Holbrooke will meet other Kosovo leaders and will give a special lecture on political developments in the Balkans at Pristina University.