“They revolted against their leader, but not against themselves,” says Leon Wiseltier. Milosevic’s overthrow is nothing like the fall of the Communist regimes a decade ago. Kostunica is no Lech Walesa, but rather an “unembarrassed…nationalist who does not see or does not wish to see that the tribal sentiment of his people…has not been the solution but the problem.” The Serbian people were outraged at what Milosevic had done to them, not what he had done to Croatians, to Bosnians, to Kosovars. In other words, “what brought him down were the unhappy consequences for Serbia of his failure in his ugly adventures. And the notion that the opprobrium that was visited upon Milosevic’s Serbia was in any way deserved — that it was the right result of Belgrade’s criminal actions — seems not to have figured prominently in the thinking of the Serbian crowds.” Wiseltier thinks more could have been asked of the Serbian people. The New Republic