Comments on: Karadzic arrested!?

By: Wim Roffel

Wim Roffel — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:32:30 +0000

Karadzic’s website is
http://www.psy-help-energy.com/

dragandabic.com is fake.

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:29:09 +0000

Concerning Karadzic' website, it gets even weirder. These guys did a WHOIS search and discovered that the site came online on July 22, the day after he was arrested. See also here in the comments section.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:28:39 +0000

They were not interested in a lot of things they should have been interested in their own interest, eg. even a minimum of good PR.
So the shortcomings of the Bosnian Serb leadership should probably not be a basis of EU policy. The question remains. If we want peace we should make making peace attractive to those who have to make it. We are not doing so.

Indeed we just looked on for years while the shooting lasted and that in a time without other military engagements. So how can any party in an armed conflict not draw the conclusion that it’s safest to keep the conflict going?

So this may be a case of good feelings, probably help Serbian political climate in the long run, but how does it help the rest of the world, particularly the EU countries?

By: Douglas Muir

Douglas Muir — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:54:32 +0000

Oliver, amnesty for the Bosnian Serb leadership was mentioned in the peace discussions, way back in 1994-5.

They weren’t interested.

Doug M.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:08:22 +0000

That leads me to a principal question.

If it seems like the leaders of the losing side in any recent conflict are arrested and jailed, whom do we expect to sign peace treaties? Short of unconditional surrender that is.

By: eni

eni — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:43:29 +0000

Great news. But hey, its pretty much the confirmation of what everybody already new. Karadzic was in Serbia under some kind of protection. Irony of the fate, Belgrade will probably get political concessions from the EU now. For lying for so long about hiding Karadzic.

By: Gridlock

Gridlock — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:09:31 +0000

I think it’s worth pointing out his website, becuase it’s just plain bizarre:

http://www.dragandabic.com/

Answers the question of location too (if you know downtown Belgrade):

“Dr. Dragan Dabic currently resides on Yury Gagarin street in New Belgrade”

Other highlights:

“In mid-1990s Dr. Dabic returned back to mother Serbia for good” [from a tour of India, China etc, apparently]

Each and every of his 10 “personally selected” proverbs is dripping with irony, but I did like this one:

“He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.”

By: Douglas Muir

Douglas Muir — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:47:44 +0000

“Narcissistic” fits.

By all accounts Karadzic was intelligent and charming. Also vain — that wave took a lot of effort — pompous, and laboring under about three different interlinked inferiority complexes.

So, in retrospect, this makes a lot of sense.

Note that he’s gone to some effort (including controlling his weight) to produce an image close to that of a classic Orthodox abbot.

Doug M.

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:13:41 +0000

“healingwounds @ dragandabic dot com”

Good Lord. First create your clientele, then heal them. Sound business plan.

I would love to see a psychological profile on this guy. Wouldn’t be surprised if he turns out to be one of those narcissistic guru types.

By: Doug (not Muir)

Doug (not Muir) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:58:32 +0000

And the e-mail address! healingwounds @ dragandabic dot com

Either some Homeric hubris and nemesis going on or serious black humor.