Talk:Vojislav Koštunica

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[edit] NPOV

I have serious concerns about the following paragraph's POV -- while it starts out with some neutrality, it quickly slides into a series of judgments and political opinions (e.g., "foolishly", "bidding of Western powers", "delivered to the West by tricking...", "knowing full well", "hate Hague Tribunal", "he had led Serbs down a dead end.") I don't know enough about the current events there or Serbian politics to feel comfortable revising it, but it does not, in my opinion, currently read as a "neutral" passage:

Kostunica's ideology and rationale for his policies had been a line adopted by many on the Serbian right and in the Serbian diaspora. It maintained the conviction that Serbia under Milosevic foolishly chose to look east for allies, that Serbia should instead have prepared to do all that is necessary to join the West. In return for privatising Serbia's economy and sending troops to do the bidding of Western powers, of working with NATO, these people reasoned, the West will choose to back Serbia against its regional rivals; Kosovo and Montenegrin separatists, and Bosnian Muslim centralists. Having effectively arranged for Serbia to be delivered to the West by tricking a nationalistic and radical electorate into voting to put the hated Djindjic into power, and knowing full well that Djindjic would send people to the hated Hague Tribunal and would carry out economic reform that would damage people's lives by causing unemployment, Kostunica hoped for something in return. With enthusiastic Western support for Montenegro's 2006 independence, as well as Western efforts to centralise Bosnia and to to remove Kosovo from Serbia, Kostunica realised that he had led Serbs down a dead end by being so cooperative with Western powers.

croll (talk) 17:05, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2008 resignation

I added the statement regarding his resignation. Mechasam (talk)

[edit] This complete article should be rewritten

I've removed all the info about Zoran Đinđić being "western puppet" and similar nonsense added by User:Procrustes the clown in February 2008, a vandalism that went unnoticed. I hope I didn't remove anything else that was added in the meantime.--Vitriden (talk) 00:17, 12 March 2008 (UTC)