[Rictor]

elaborate.

I'm not supportive of nationalism per se, I just think that everyone should be entitled to it equally. Serbian nationalism is no different than the Croatian, American, British or Mongolian variety. And yet, "Great Serbia" has become a phenomenon because some clever journalist coined the term to reason away every shortcoming on the part of the Serbian people. Sort of like "fanatical Islam" "the Communist menace" and "European anti-Semetism". And from that comes the impression that people walk around the streets of Belgrade, randomly shooting at non Serbs, pounding their chests and praising Milosevic for promting some sort of Balkan style manifest destiny, which is bull.

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by Rictor
Trashman: depends on who wins the election. If Nikolic wins...well, ****. Tadic is like Kerry, his only merit is that he's not Nikolic. Either way, the Serbian people lose, but I guess they're used to that after what the past decade has brought....

personally, I can't fault the Great Serbia crap, its basically pure nationalism, just like every other country in the world has. At this point, no one has enough power to put that into action, so its not really relevant. It seems to me that if the Serbian people don't accept the commonly held view that they're murderers and the crap of the world, then they're somehow seen as ultra-nationalist. All people need pride in their country and so forth, and if you choose to call that Great Serbia, fine.

with that said, I do hope Tadic wins. He's the lesser of two evils at least, and at this point that about the best you can hope for..

edit: my mom actually knew Tadic back in university. She says he's a beaurocratic little ass-kisser who worked his way up the ladder on account of his daddy being someone important.

Rictor, I have nothing against Serbs...really.. Alltough I know a lot of Croats who have, and I can't blame them.
Actually, Serbs and Croats have one thing in common - they both have a history of making the worst political decisions in histoy!!!

Now, I have nothing against Serbian nationalists, but Serbia and Great Serbia are not the same. As V. Karadzic once wrote "Wherever there's a serbian grave, that's serbian soil!"...
And I'm not a fan of nationalism of any kind....

I'm still worried that you're goning to get this the wrong way, but I'm too tired to get into long explanations right now....