Abuse of death is nothing new in the Balkans or

Abuse of death is nothing new in the Balkans or, indeed, the Empire. It was perhaps too much to expect that

Boris Trajkovski’s tragic end in the Herzegovina mountains would be spared the same fate.

4mbtsale.com’s resident Macedonia expert Chris Deliso has a great piece on his site Balkanalysis, examining the

misleading and manipulative eulogizing of Trajkovski over the past 48 hours. I think much of what he says can

be applied retroactively to several notable Balkans luminaries who passed away recently (e.g. Zoran Djindjic,

Alija Izetbegovic). Definitely worth a read…

Another delightful article on NRO today from Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime Communist thug in charge of Romania’s

DIE, current neoconservative flak. The typical Pacepa essay, I’ve noticed, opens with a brief “trust me, I’ve

hung with some bad mofos” hook to reel the Tom Clancy devotees in. It then proceeds to explain how Pacepa,

under direct orders from Andropov/Ceaucescu/Stalin/Marx/Satan, created the antiwar movement/ACLU/PLO/

NAMBLA/childproof aspirin lids to destroy Western civilization. Not that Pacepa, who eventually jumped to the

NIKE SHOX, wanted to do any of these things, you understand. His thirty-year rise to Ceaucescu’s top cop was

just a typical Commie administrative blunder. A foul-up in payroll, perhaps.