Albania: "Please Occupy Us!"

AmusedToDeath · #1 (**permalink**) 07-19-2008, 08:12 AM

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Time magazine, Sunday, Jun. 10, 2007

Albania: "Please Occupy Us!"

George W. Bush's visit to Europe this week has focused on the countries that once fell under the veil of communism and that have also, not coincidentally, proved important allies in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush's brief visit to Poland on Friday was his third as President.

But nowhere will Bush receive as warm a welcome as in Albania, where he is scheduled to land on Sunday morning. Bush will be the first sitting President to visit the remote Balkan country, the poorest in Europe, and Albanians have outdone themselves in preparations: tens of thousands have thronged to the run down capital, Tirana, to get a glimpse of the American first couple. The parliament recently passed a bill authorizing the U.S. to do anything necessary, "including the use of force," to secure the President. One headline declared: "Please Occupy Us!"

In addition to sending small numbers of non-combat personnel to Iraq, Albania voted with the U.S. in the United Nations on key provisions, such as the refusal to recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and also offered to take care of prisoners released from Guantanamo who the U.S. refuses to harbor and cannot be returned to their home countries for fear of persecution. Albania is the only country in the world to provide such refuge, and, coincidentally, lawyers acting for detainees announced last week that 30 more are headed from Guantanamo to Albania in the near future. (Human Rights Lawyers have denounced the move as a failure to properly address the rights of detainees.)

While Bush can be sure of a rapturous welcome in Tirana, the same is no longer true of all post-communist European countries, including some others on his current itinerary. In the Czech Republic, more than 60% of citizens are against his missile defense initiative, not because they agree with Moscow (which has also, loudly, opposed the plan) but because they fear being dragged into another superpower slugfest. Surprisingly, Czechs view Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, more highly than they do Bush, although polls show they still would prefer the U.S. as a neighbor.

In Poland, former Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, once a strong supporter of close ties with America, recently denounced the missile defense initiative, writing, "If the Bush administration expects Poles and Czechs to jump for joy and agree to whatever is proposed, it's going to face a mighty crash with reality. The administration might have gotten away with this five years ago, when the memory of Ronald Reagan's steadfast support for our freedom fighters had just been bolstered by American advocacy of NATO enlarge... But the war in Iraq has dented Central European trust." Many Poles are also upset at this week's apparent confirmation, in a report by Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty, that the the CIA used a base in Poland to hold high-value terror suspects, including Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, between 2002 and 2005 as part of a secret operation known as extraordinary rendition. The Polish government rejects the finding.

Many ordinary eastern Europeans have begun to chafe at the apparent lack of return on their investments of troops and resources in U.S.-led, far-off wars. And the failure of the U.S. to grant visa-free travel to eastern Europeans—their fellow E.U.-members in France and Germany can enter American borders freely—is another sore point. Bush has used his eastern European visits to trumpet a "freedom agenda," correctly asserting that, with their recent experiences under communist tyranny, eastern Europeans share his goal of spreading democracy around the world. But for now, the Albanians are the only ones supporting it in the streets.

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...inline-sidebar

Whichever a nation gets the title "superpower", it can count on Albanian support.

Yesterday those were Hitler and Stalin, today it's Uncle Sam.

Lets see who will be next.

Adriano · #2 (**permalink**) 07-19-2008, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by AmusedToDeath

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...inline-sidebar

Whichever a nation gets the title "superpower", it can count on Albanian support.

Yesterday those were Hitler and Stalin, today it's Uncle Sam.

Lets see who will be next.

funny enough serbia still keeps on getting smaller... what a coincidence...

AmusedToDeath · #3 (**permalink**) 07-19-2008, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Adriano

funny enough serbia still keeps on getting smaller... what a coincidence...

Well, we will grow again. In due time, my friend. Don't you worry about us.l

Adriano · #4 (**permalink**) 07-19-2008, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by AmusedToDeath

Well, we will grow again. In due time, my friend. Don't you worry about us.l

im not worried, neither is anyone else, your emigration numbers and your low birth-rates plus the old people compared to your youngsters actually tells the opposite.

once again the palm tree scenario looks more likely than you will grow.

AmusedToDeath · #5 (**permalink**) 07-19-2008, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Adriano

im not worried, neither is anyone else, your emigration numbers and your low birth-rates plus the old people compared to your youngsters actually tells the opposite.

once again the palm tree scenario looks more likely than you will grow.

As I've said, don't you worry about us.

Adriano · #6 (**permalink**) 07-19-2008, 11:32 AM

there are just some things that have to go amused, and fake things never last, like the chinese economy serbs dont have a single thing to be proud,chinese dont even have a single own brand, even tesla does not deserve only 200 dinars.

there are a lot of nations that come and go, and i truly believe that serbia will be just another history sooner or later.

a nation that is only proud of lies and famous for killing innocent is the shame of this world, all your neighbours know that amused, and russia only wants influence not dumb allies.

drama · #7 (**permalink**) 07-23-2008, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Adriano

there are just some things that have to go amused, and fake things never last, like the chinese economy serbs dont have a single thing to be proud,chinese dont even have a single own brand, even tesla does not deserve only 200 dinars.

there are a lot of nations that come and go, and i truly believe that serbia will be just another history sooner or later.

a nation that is only proud of lies and famous for killing innocent is the shame of this world, all your neighbours know that amused, and russia only wants influence not dumb allies.

you shiptars have no history what are you talking about? there is an old Serbian saying that translated says "person that will insult you or try to put you down is always going to be lower than you". Reason he does that is because he or she is trying to cure his own insecurites and complexes. You shiptars have a complex called Serbians and as hard as you try you will never be able to cure it. I could really care less what you think about Serbs because i know what I think about you. And no, it is not because I hate you, but it is because I know you hate me.

Adriano · #8 (**permalink**) 07-23-2008, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by drama

you shiptars have no history what are you talking about? there is an old Serbian saying that translated says "person that will insult you or try to put you down is always going to be lower than you". Reason he does that is because he or she is trying to cure his own insecurites and complexes. You shiptars have a complex called Serbians and as hard as you try you will never be able to cure it. I could really care less what you think about Serbs because i know what I think about you. And no, it is not because I hate you, but it is because I know you hate me.

hahaha

tha balkans were cursed when the balto slavik barbarians crossed the danube.
keep waving your russian upside down flag and call it old. keep speaking your balto slavik language that they speak from croatia all the way to russia and call it original. keep loosing wars and battles and call them victory's...
please man just another radical dying breed thats all you are portraying here
drama... you are funny.
but still a serb

here is what i hate about serbia and not ordinary serbs but for what your theocratic country makes U do

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YouTube - Nazis and serbs both use 3 fingers.

and now... what can u say?

AmusedToDeath · #9 (**permalink**) 07-23-2008, 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Adriano

and now... what can u say?

Hahahahahahahaha. That's what I say, if you ask me.

Guy Fawkes · #10 (**permalink**) 07-23-2008, 02:42 AM

Send them Brittney Spears and Family then ask them.

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