Hate to say it but you are right Pantagruel. You see Mark belongs to the group of people that couldn't point out Yugoslavia on a map before the wars started, and now afterwards they seem to believe they are experts on all things Balkan. They seem to be totally unaware of things going on there before the wars, totally unaware of the fact that the Croatian diaspora for example have never considered themselves as Yugoslavs (I remember reading about the Croatian diaspora in Australia when growing up in the 70's and their gathering of money and weapons to one day be able to leave the Yugoslav Federation). He also seems totally unaware of Stipe Mesic's speach when he took over the position as Yugoslavia president where he stated clearly for all that he is the last president of Yugoslavia.
It's easy to blame the Serbs for everything that went wrong in Yugoslavia but before we points fingers at one side only we should learn to look at each sides role. For as we all are well aware; it takes two to tango...
Unfortunately many who have opinions on the Balkans threads belong to the same category as Mark.
The Slovenes were whipped into hysteria at the thought of being severed from FRY and still being part of FRY. The Croatians bullyed them into their self-proclaiming hysteria.
muslims were being radikalized by the Sandjak muslims that were being brought into the Alija self-declared govt.