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...I am really disturbed by the relationship of the Orthodox Church to militant Serbian nationalism.

Yes, to all of the above concerns, but I also echo Ryan's sentiment here too.

As a former Canadian soldier (hmm... what nation took a rather prominent role in the UN peacekeeping efforts in that region before NATO command came along and made a dog's breakfast of it?) I can assure you that the militant Serbs are so far from guiltless, it is ridiculous.

I can point out though that, as a general rule, the faithful Orthodox Christians never picked up weapons, and the people who populated the Serb "death squads" and the like, were the holdovers from the Communist regime who never darkened the door of a Church (except to desecrate it). Those two groups of people are not the same, even though they might have the same ethnic origin.

But, I am unnerved by unblinking support of Serbian nationalism in the name of Orthodox Christianity.

The news doesn't always help because there is so much deceipt, guile, and false representations in that part of the world, that the journalists themselves rarely understand what they are reporting.

"Politics is lying to reporters, and then wholeheartedly believing those same lies when you see them in print."