#61 It's not because you're an american. As you can read above I'm not fighting the Serb's war. Especialy not against the U.S. - only morons do this:)
It's because you didn't read enough. You read something and you didn't understude it. The worst kind of knowledge.
"Not between Greece and Hungary? Have not both countries claimed it the region in the past, and isn't that now why it has the name F.Y.R.O.M instead of Macedonia ">
WTF has Hungary to do here. As for the name dispute, Macedonia has been recogised by the US by it's constitutional name and so have 130 other countries in the world.
Cheers from trying to care for something more than American idol, and beleive me this is not the image I have for the americans in general. But if you try to make a point, read more and have a more open mind - that's what boingboing's all about:)
That's the main issue here. People in Serbia that share the same simpathy for the western community (and there are more of these that you imagine) are being let down.
You see, albanians aren't your only friend on the Balkans. You are pushing away all others.
Nevertheless I spent a lot of time on un-pretty things. Never really thought I'll get into a discussion on Kosovo on BoingBoing:)
Over and out.

#9 and #10
Don't expect you to understand, as you don't really know balkan history and understand international law, but are always prepared to stand "for democracy and civil rights".
Actually, my point wasn't really to lamentate on the final solution for Kosovo, but to remind Ms. Tesanovic that people have every right to be angry at the western comunity.
As for the independance of Macedonia, you should check the oldest book (the bible) for the name Macedonia and see how far back we go. Actualy it's very strange for me to quote on the bible, since it's not really my favourite reading, so I'll try to explain why is the independance of Macedonia different from the independance of Kosovo.
Worst case (let's forget antient times, Alexander the Great and bible mumbo-jumbo), Macedonia was a Republic since 1945. That's 50 years of own parliament, own government and government bodies and institutions. Kosovo has never been a republic. It was an authonomous suplement of Serbia, and the worst thing Milosevic has done is to take away their authonomy in the 90's. We were all a part of Yugoslavia, but only two Republics had apsolutely no legal problems in proclaiming authonomy in 1990 - that's Slovenia and Macedonia. All others were either in the middle of bloodsheading or weren't really a republic.
That's the main difference between Kosovo and Macedonia. Glad I could help.

Jasmina, I really like your texts on Serbia, and I really like your pro-western attitude. It really stands similar to the pacifist approach I also feel - that's "Man (or woman) before the state".
But even the people with most sympathy to the Western world (i.e. - me) cannot understand this move.
International laws have been broken. Creating a authonomous country from a piece of someone else's land. And all of this becouse of that moron Milosevic.
But he's gone now, and his loser suporters are less and less each day. The international comunity is actualy helping their numer rise by this decision.
I didn't feel this way in 1999, when they bombed you. I thought "the moron must step down - he fucked up all of the balkans and everything is acceptable - even this". Anything that'll make the average Serb vote 'no' for Milosevic and evict him. But today, I feel things are really different. And I'm sure other solutions could've been found.
So stop being a "bigger pope than the pope", and stop feeling sorry for Nike and McDonald's. For Christ sake, they're destroying McDonald's in Sweden too, when they feel "antiglobalist". Street huliganism is not the worse thing in the world.
It's better to let the mob destroy a McDonalds or two or torch the american embassy than to have unexpected moves of apsolute violence outburst. It's a kind of vent. It's not something that'll make Serbia less European. The west should be aware that they're breaking international laws.
I know that it's days before my country also recognises Kosovo, I'm sure that we don't have much choice but to make the smarter move and "dance to the American tune". Pretty sad feeling, and I could only imagine how those poor people who live in Serbia must feel now. Let them have there anger!
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Just joking, please don't get me wrong and try to lecture me on the importance of saving...

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