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The Game After the Bombs

by Rastislav Durman

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KOSICE - [AUTHOR'S NOTE - The following is not the transcript of a telephone conversation this time and the conversation is situated in more or less the near future. In this short conversation President Milosevic resumes with President Clinton their previous activities . I know this just will have to take place. ---RD]

"Bill, didn't I do my best to [ful]fil all of your wishes? Didn't I do my best to scatter [and divide the] former Socialistic Federal Republic [of] Yugoslavia? Who did [weaken] from European competition the strongest among ex-socialistic countries with more than 24 million inhabitants?"

"Yes, Slobo, I admire that you had flayed the biggest piece of the job, but you can't forget that Franjo from Croatia and Milan from Slovenia also have taken a few tasks on their shoulders."

"Yes, but I was the person who was giving you [the best] alibi all the time! If I had not bombarded Dubrovnik and Vukovar in the way [they were] bombarded, you wouldn't [have been] able to smuggle in[to the] UN the recognition of Slovenija and Croatia as sovereign states, would you?"

"I suppose that you are right..."

"Then I was bombarding Sarajevo, to say nothing about Srebrenica..."

"And Gorazde..."

"You can't deny that my Bosnian smoke-screen estrange[d] the world's attention from ethnic cleansing of Krajina?"

"It was your and Franjo's business [as regards] Bosnia..."

"Yes, but whose generals took part in operations, yours or mine?"

"Well..."

"And who put his sign[ature] on [the] Dayton Agreement when you wanted to take a break [from] politics and have a little fun with Monica? Who gave you a hand when they caught you with your fingers in her cake and saved your reputation [as an] important politician? Do you think that your Americans are smarter than my Albanians? They could buy Kosovo from me as you bought Alaska, but I gave up [the idea of making a] profit to save your dignity..."

"I was thinking that Albanians are paying to you for Kosovo by unkeep in elections..."

"Who had saved NATO for you when it was clear to everybody that it was nothing but flock of useless mouth[pieces] after [the] Russians [were] gone with [the] wind, and when nobody was interested in reviving [the] bombarding of Saddam? Who .. offered you [the] scenario for the biggest show in [the] history of war with [the] special possibility of promoting your technology and view of arms?"

"For Good's sake, Slobo! I have told you that I recognize you as my friend for life. What more do you want? Can't you see that I am also affected [by] this silly way of punishing politicians in the Age of Aquarius not with execution, arrest or exile, but with killing our self-respect, destroying our vanity, erasing our importance! Who could take us seriously .. when he sees us captured in [this] Zoo? But I can't do anything about [this state of affairs.] Can't you see that I am in the cage too? What I can do?"

"Could you give me some of your peanuts, please?"


RASTISLAV DURMAN was born in 1956 (Senta, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia.) He is married and has been living in Slovakia since 1993. He's a writer, (4 novels, over 40 radio and TV plays, more than 1000 short stories,) and TV director (over 500 hours of program). Mr. Durman graduated from University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1982, with a degree in Philosophy. His postgraduate studies were at the same institution, from which he graduated in1984. Rastislav has twenty years of experience in TV media. He is one of the founders of City TV Foundation and the International Festival of Local TV Broadcasters (Head of Program and Development Dept., Kosice, Slovakia since 1995.)

This is Mr. Durman's eighth piece for The World's Magazine. His previous submission was a satirical and hypothetical look at a possible conversation between U.S. President Bill Clinton and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.

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