How big is Bahrain?
How big is Qatar?” • The recent history of Yugoslavia is very instructive in this respect. When the Serbs of Bosnia and Krajna were fighting against the local puppets of the U.S., Milosevic, then president of New Yugoslavia, sold them out by signing the Dayton accords. He obviously believed – and had certainly received assurances – that by “playing ball” with the U.S. he would be able to remain in power, and keep the remnants of his state intact (at the time he was hailed by world media as a “responsible statesman”). Soon enough he was awakened to the real value of U.S. promises, when the U.S. started bombing Belgrade – this time to “liberate” Kosovo. But it seems he was organically incapable of drawing the lessons. So again instead of resisting to the end, Milosevic, who had in his hands one of the strongest armies of Europe, signed a ‘peace accord’ just at the time when the US would have to invade with ground forces, an operation that many western analysts had described as doomed to
