{"id":655,"date":"2008-02-17T23:15:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T04:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/17\/kosovo-hours-old-centuries-old\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T23:15:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T04:15:56","slug":"kosovo-hours-old-centuries-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/17\/kosovo-hours-old-centuries-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosovo: Hours Old, Centuries Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia. Maybe it’ll run as a back page story in American newspapers tomorrow. Or maybe it will find its way to the front soon, with talk of NATO security guarantees, Serbian demands, and Russian\/American pressures. Doesn’t it all sound familiar? From Jasmina Te\u00c5\u00a1anovi\u00c4\u2021<\/a>, over at Boing Boing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Sirens :: 02.17.2008<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s starting again: the language of war is the daily bread in Serbia. The sirens of nationalism are turned on again, as if nothing had changed in the eight years after Milosevic was toppled.<\/p>\n

[ . . . ]<\/p>\n

In Belgrade yesterday a thousand nationalists with Serbian flags marched downtown to the Slovenian embassy. Today, in front of the American embassy, potential riots were controlled by the police. In Kosovo province, two thousand policemen from EU mission will be deployed for 120 days until the situation “becomes stable.”<\/p>\n

[ . . . ]<\/p>\n

The president of the government with much harsher tones accused the US and EU of robbing Serbia of its territory, after destroying Serbia in 1999 with bombs. High ranked Orthodox priests also condemn the loss of their historical heritage. The members of the Serbian government tour Kosovo, encouraging Serbs to stay there. They could have done that eight years ago by coming to terms with the criminal ethnic cleansing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over and over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia. Maybe it’ll run as a back page story in American newspapers tomorrow. Or maybe it will find its way to the front soon, with talk of NATO security guarantees, Serbian demands, and Russian\/American pressures. Doesn’t it all sound familiar? From Jasmina Te\u00c5\u00a1anovi\u00c4\u2021, over at Boing Boing: The Sirens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t