I hesitate to mention this

I hesitate to mention this, but the tone of Deliso’s article is also quite astonishing. Apart from describing

del Ponte as the "Hague hag" and a "frumpy dowager", he also begins with a tongue-in-cheek endorsement of the

marriage proposal she recently received from an unknown Serbian waiter — no doubt brought to his attention by

humorous coverage in the nationalist press.

I wonder if Deliso has thought this through. A basic strategy of Serb paramilitaries throughout the civil war

was to assert their dominance over Yugoslavia’s other ethnic groups through a systematic campaign of rape and

sexual assault. I don’t think it takes an anthropologist to figure out what this gentleman is really

suggesting.

I don’t understand what motivates this kind of sentiment coming from non-Serbs. There’s plenty of room for

rational criticism of the West’s policies in Yugoslavia, but Deliso’s essay isn’t remotely recognizable as

such.