By Nebojsa Malic, Washington DC Lord Owen once said that everyone lied in the Balkans. He most likely meant that the people of the Balkans are unrepentant liars, which has been proven true on many occasions. However, it seems that this unfortunate patch of land is a magnet for liars and deceivers, in addition to the usual collection of murderers, rapists, thugs and robber barons. And let us not forget the carrion-eating pack of imperialists, militarists, smugglers, mafiosi and NGOs missionaries of the new religion of Saint democracy and Holy capitalism. It makes sense for them to be drawn to the once prosperous and now bleeding Balkans.
Sharks go for blood, after all.
But it is the liars that bother me most, especially if they get so bold to pretend they are honest. In a stark example of this phenomenon, Madeleine Albright spoke Friday to the crowds of cheering Albanians in Kosovo, reveling in the fact, as she put it, that the massacres and oppression were over. At the same time, the dirt covering the caskets of 14 Serbs shot then slaughtered by the KLA terrorists has not settled down yet. In the glorious days of NATO s air blitz both physical and metaphorical every account of massacres told by Albanians was believed. But now, when the world has witnessed a massacre by those very same Albanians, of those very same Serbs, for Madeleine Albright this is not happening.