Giving a shunt towards Europe

IN 1991 Radovan Karadzic, the then leader of the Bosnian Serbs, stood in the Bosnian parliament in Sarajevo and warned Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) that they were taking the country down the highway to hell. It was one of the most dramatic moments in the history of the destruction of Yugoslavia. On May 19th Joe Biden, the American vice-president, stood in the same place and denounced nationalist politics. In an emotion-laden speech, he exclaimed: “God, when will you tire of that rhetoric?…This must stop.”