A Dark Corner of Europe, Part I

Editor's Note: Michael Totten is presently traveling through what was once known as Yugoslavia. Like all of his works, this is another must read piece on his observations of what is the situation on the ground in this part of Europe. It has been 9 years since the cessation of Europe's last war .... if war is to return to Europe it will be in this region again.
“If Yugoslavia was the laboratory of Communism, then Communism would breathe its last dying breath here in Belgrade. And to judge by what [Slobodan] Milosevic was turning into by early 1989, Communism would exit the world stage revealed for what it truly was: fascism, without fascism's ability to make the trains run on time.” - Robert D. Kaplan

“You bombed my country.” These were the nearly first words I heard after clearing passport control on arrival in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, from a taxi driver who flagged me down inside the airport. “Fifteen countries bombed my country.”

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