Good riddance, Mr. Milosevic.The termination of Cold War-style leadership got a big boost when Slobodan Milosevic, one of the last communist dictators left in Europe, finally took a hint and conceded that Yugoslavia no longer wanted him to run the
Good riddance, Mr. Milosevic.The termination of Cold War-style leadership
got a big boost when Slobodan Milosevic, one of the last communist dictators
left in Europe, finally took a hint and conceded that Yugoslavia no longer
wanted him to run the country.
He conceded Friday, well after the fact,
that he’d lost the country’s presidential election. It apparently was hard for
him to understand that Yugoslavians didn’t want their leader to be an indicted
war criminal, or someone who started and lost four wars in the Balkans, or
whose heavyhandedness brought foreign sanctions upon his country that left its
people impoverished and cut off from the rest of the world.
But after
hundreds of thousands of Yugoslavians demonstrated in front of the parliament
building where he clung stubbornly to his tattered regime, Milosevic finally
got it. He insists he’ll remain active in the nation’s politics. Hopefully, no
one will listen to him.
