According to one Bob Woffinden on PM,which had the previous day given vast and wholly uncritical coverage to Marko Attila Hoare, who, as a stalwart defender of Franjo Tudjman, is presumably, like his hero, a Holocaust denier who would "never allow a Serb, Jew or Gypsy to marry into [his] family".
Henry Kissenger once suggested that there was no worse fate than to be an American ally. But there is one. It is to have been a British ally in both World Wars. Just ask either the Arabs or the Serbs. Perfidious Albion is instead utterly devoted to the Stern Gang and the Handschar Division, to Irgun and the Ustasha.
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Illogic leaps and rash assumptions abound here.
ReplyDeleteAmongst Tudjman's other international supporters was of course none other than that great "Man of Peace" (as President George W Bush has described him) Pope John Paul II.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.medjugorje.ws/en/articles/church.shepherds/pope-john-paul-ii-medjugorje/
Indeed they do, Philip. Indeed they do.
ReplyDeleteMedjugorje, Oliver? Come on, you know better than that.
In the Times yesterday Karadic is actually accused of aiding Islamism by blowing up mosques and trying to turn the conflict into a Christianity v Islam conflict.
ReplyDeleteYour blog shows you have swallowed that line.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4453728.ece
Well, I'm in very good company, then.
ReplyDeleteThe conflict does of course go ever so slightly further back than that. And it was Izetbegovic who went around rabble-rousing for an Islamic state and in the spirit of nostalgia for the SS past.
The reaction of Karadzic and Mladic may have been wicked in its own way, but it was not singularly so, it was not the cause of the conflict, and in any case Karadzic is not going to be convicted, because the ICC never convicts anybody.
If this wasn't the age old Christian-Muslim/Slav-Turk conflict in the Balkans, then what on earth was it?
I really do have to defend Marko Attila Hoare from the absurd accusation that he is (or has ever been) a defender of Tudjman and/or the Ustasha, let alone a holocaust denier.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, David, making these kind of wild, unsubstantiated, and wholly unfounded claims, serve above all to discredit you and your cause - which is a great pity, as I am sympathetic to a large proportion of what you write.
He might deny it now, but that is what he is, and that is what he has been for a very long time.
ReplyDeleteHe supported the disastrous UDI of Tudjman's neo-Ustasha state in Croatia, and he supported its war of Ustasha re-enanctment (then, as in the Forties, on the same side as the jihadi) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as its removal of the constitutional recognition of the Serbs as one of Croatia's two founding people's, leading to the largest ethnic cleansing in the entire break-up of Yugoslavia.
It gives me no pleasure to write any of this. I believe passionately, as any orthodox Catholic must, in the historic mission of the Croats as 'Antemurale Christianitatis'. But they have been derelict in that duty twice in the last seventy years, and Christian charity includes the obligation to reproach the brethren when and where necessary.