apologies to others on the list, but dl's enlightened arrogance is the limit-point of my conversation.
dl, you are an asshole pretending to be a mouth; and like all such aspirations, a mechanism is required to transform this from pretense to self-evident truth. in this case, that function is filled by your brutalisation of 'the balkans'.
if you had any integrity at all, you would acknowledge that this is your fantasy, doing work for you that you so desperately need done, especially since what you seek to do through this is claim a distance between your civility and the barbarity of others. this is your own other. deal with your own barbarity and racism before you presume to be able to comprehend that of other people.
that, unfortunately, is not a manoeuvre confined to dl. he has perhaps done us all service in being so crude.
Angela