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From: Ivo Skoric 
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From: "Ivo Skoric" 
Subject:       Re: http://mediafilter.org/SJ/Pages/ethnicity and religion 

No, no, no. Kissinger is right. He is always damn right. He knows 
where the money is and he doesn't care about the bodycount.

Hehehehehe. Kissinger of course knows very well what the Balkans war 
is all about and why it happened. He has his hands until elbows 
involved in making of Yugoslav disaster. This is precisely why he finds it 
necessary to continue to obfuscate the truth. Since it is obvious 
that both ethnic and relligious differences are just a cover up fir 
real reasons for this war (which are as it is nicely put here - 
pilage and power - as they are usual prime suspects for ANY war 
anywhere), it would be interesting to know why Kissinger now 
*insists* that religion plays bigger role than ethnicity? This 
primarily serves to undermine Bosnian Muslims - because the "same 
ethnic stock" theory was promoted both by Serbs and Croats in Bosnia 
denying legitimacy to Bosniacs. Some Serbs also favor this approach 
because they'd like to claim that Yugoslavs were all Serbs just of 
different religions, which has no historic evidence. Blame it on damn 
Vatican and bloody Turks. Kissinger is a wise guy, so he probably 
gains something from that approach. Let us see how this flies with 
the Balkan power players:
Milosevic - he would endorse it, because if all Yugoslavs are of same 
ethnic stock, most logical would be that they are all of the majority 
ethnic stock - which is Serbian.
Tudjman - he would have problems with that because he tries to prrove 
that Croats are separate ethnic stock, but he would endorse it in 
Bosnia where he would like to prove that Muslims are islamicized 
Croats (the flower of Croatian nation, as Croat nationalists use to 
say).
Izetbegovic - well, he'd be against it, but who asks for an opinion 
of a statesman whose state is run by multi-national occupying force?

So, as always, Kissinger plays his stakes wisely and with a clear 
vision of the profit he can make out of a region.

Ivo Skoric


Subject: Re: http://mediafilter.org/SJ/Pages/ethnicity and religion of B-H
From: visic@pipeline.com (Miroslav Visic)

On Dec 19, 1995 13:08:43, 'boe57@netropolis.net' wrote: 
 
 
>I recently read an editorial by Dr. Henry Kissinger on this conflict. He
stated  
>that the real issue 
> 
>is religion rather than ethnicity and that most of the people of that
region  
>are of the same ethnic stock. 
> 
>I tend to agree with him. I would like to learn more about this and hear
from  
>anyone who can shed light 
> 
>on the subject. This is crucial to the understanding of the conflict and
the  
>leaders and politicians cannot 
> 
>make proper decisions about B-H without understanding this. I would like
to  
>hear from anyone there that 
> 
>cares to correspond with me. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
 
Everything that Henry Kissinger said doesn't have to be true. This time for
example, he was wrong. The war wasn't about religion nor ethnicity, it was
about pilage and power.