Hope, Arkansas to Hope, Albania: naivete and idealism to reality and tragedy.
The wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo were perpretrated by a radical nationalist Serbian cultural political consciousness that the American cultural political consciousness and leadership had difficulty responding to and understanding. There is a great cultural divide between a 'pathology' in Serbian culture, Milosević's radical nationalism, and a humane 'naivete' in American cultural consciousness. I discuss why, finally, American political leadership, Bill Clinton from Hope, Arkansas, responded to the tragedy of these wars. However, we are still left with the question of good vs evil: What is the course of human history; psychotic political leadership causing repetitive human tragedy or can there be a higher humane and moral order to human cultural events?
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Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA.
D000415:Albania; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States; D014857:Warfare; D015022:Yugoslavia