Folks,

Well, the similarities are immense.  The Iraqi children are
victims of their leader's (Saddam Hussein - previously and
still a torturer of men, women and children) selfishness
just as so many victims in the Balkans can be laid into the
lap of Slobodan Milosevic (properly and honestly delineated
as the "Butcher" by Tresy).

As one of my friends from Europe (Switzerland) put it, "It
is almost impossible to avoid trouble when traveling in the
Balkans, any where with anybody.  I waited for over two
hours to be served breakfast in a Serbian cafe and, finally,
left utterly exasperated only to be cursed on the way out
because the owner had just begun to fix my order.  The cafe
owner called a policeman and complained that I had left
'without paying for the food I had ordered,' and the
policeman caught up with me and cursed me for leaving the
cafe.  I explained what happened and the policeman
physically beat me up and stole my all of my money and left
me on the side of the road!  There is no way one can travel
there safely."   He said he was robbed repeatedly there by
all types, Croats, Serbians and Albanians.  He had traveled
over a very wide area including living in Mexico and Canada
besides the U.S.A., still maintaining residences in all
three countries besides Switzerland.

I have never traveled there so cannot comment on such
complaints but the Swiss citizen was telling me that "the
U.S. would always regret the action in the Balkans because
'everybody is wrong and everybody is right' in the local
fights and we would always be losers for trying to help.
The best advice is to leave the whole area completely
alone."  It appeared to me that he was probably right in
every respect.  In reading the reports it appeared that all
sides (locally) were at fault and guilty of crimes against
humanity.

Anyway, I enjoyed seeing Tresy "take everyone else to the
cleaners," to use an American expression.  Way to go, Tresy,
you have my compliments, again, as not only a great
photographer, a good reporter on the activities of the
black-clothed, masked, anarchist folks in Seattle, but also
a fair and competent arguer and I recall Kipling's poem "The
Female of the Species" (is the deadliest of them all)...

Cordially,

Bob

Andrej Grubacic wrote:
Article on Iraqi children, etc., snipped for brevity...
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