25 Feb 2008

Serbia on a downer

A student holds an Obraz flag and a portrait of Radovan Karadžić in a Time Magazine photo.Last year, Montenegro voted to break it off with Serbia. Last Sunday Kosovo decided to call it quits as well. Serbians are so upset they decided to trash their own country, and today I watched people marching through downtown Vancouver in protest, waving flags and chanting "Kosovo is Serbia" and holding signs saying "Kosovo = Québec", fearmongerimplying that if Canada recognizes Kosovo as an independent nation it will encourage Québec to secede. I didn't see any pictures of Radovan Karadžić in Vancouver, but they certainly were in evidence in Belgrade.

Call me bemused. Serbians are doubtless annoyed that it doesn't have Albanian Kosovars to kick aroundmurder anymore. But they should look at it on the positive side: next time they can have the thrill of an invasion and then throw another genocide. Even at the best of times nationalism looks like a load of hooey, but these guys really take the cake. Greater Serbia indeed.

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