..You Get a Tan from Shopping in the Beograd Rain

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21
Daily Despair

At a dinner I recently attended, the host toasted the EU for breaking off negotiations with Serbia and Montenegro over the failure to hand over Ratko Mladic to the International Criminal Court. His toast concluded: To Justice!.

Justice for whom? For the jobless men, the women must buy on the grey market to feed their families, girls so desperate to find a way out that they are easily tricked by prostitution rings? Children without schoolbooks, democrats who risked their lives to bring down the old regime and win -- what? For the veterinarians struggling with all the abandoned animals, the young who cannot marry, the old who have lost everything?

G-d save me from the well-fed foreigner who puts principles before people....