“As a young man I was at first attracted like many others to politics, and in politics I was thwarted by many obstacles. In place of shame, self-restaint, and virtue, arrogance thrived and graft and greed…I was young and did not know how to resist. Caught in the midst of such corruption, I too was seized and corrupted by ambition. - Sallust [Catiline’s Conspiracy, 3]
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The tiny former Yugoslavian nation of Montenegro held a Presidential runoff election on Sunday, April 2nd. Milo Djukanovic, who has led the republic in one form or another since the end of the Cold War was defeated by a young, Western…
