Posted on 08/29/2006 2:52:55 PM PDT by kronos77
Until recently, Bosnia-Herzegovina was often described as a shining example of succesful international effort in post-conflict reconstruction and nation building. Since the war ended eleven years ago, hardly a shot was fired, towns and villages were repaired, and many refugees have returned to their homes. But now, a month ahead of crucial presidential and parliamentary polls, ethnic tension spurred by local political leaders is running so high that Bosnia's relapse into war no longer seems unthinkable.
Bosnian Muslims, the largest ethnic group in the region, are pushing to dismantle Republika Srpska, the Serb-dominated entity created by the 1995 Dayton peace accord and one of the two ethnically centered statelets, or entities, that comprise Bosnia. The other is the Muslim-Croat federation. Each has its own parliament, government and president. (Bosnia as a whole has a weak central government and a three-member presidency: one Serb, one Muslim and one Croat.) Bosnian Serbs are threatening to secede and merge with neighboring Serbia. "When I hear people talk on the news and in the cafes, I get the feeling that they're just about to jump at each other's throats," says Mirjana Topic, a student from the Bosnian Serb capital of Banja Luka. "All it would take is some fool's call for war."
Although Bosnian politicians have so far refrained from calling up voters in their constituencies to reach for the guns, they have done just about everything else to provoke and insult the opposing ethnic groups. Last Sunday Borislav Paravac, the Serbian member of Bosnia's collective Presidency, stated that the behavior of his Muslim colleague Sulejman Tihic was "idiotic." Tihic had previously said that those Serbs who do not accept his vision of Bosnia as a centralized state should pack up and move out of the country.
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But I just saw Wesley Clark on Fox saying what a great job he did there...
susie
Pretty missguided article trying to descrive Bosnia as @Shining example of peace and reconstruction@ threatened by clouds of war instead of frankestein quasi state made to apease Islamofascists and enslave Christians, but article shows that Clinton liberals-made-up-paradise in Bosnia is going to burst again, lik ein 1992 when stupidley established for the first time.
IS clinton's fragile peace in Bosnia crumbling?
Doogle
Ahhhhh..... Wesley "once-I-was-a-general" Clark....
Yeah-the Weasel, Half-Bright, and bj--three friggin' genuis intellects we owe a lot to.
I cannot figure out why Fox loves him so much....
He doesn't even LOOK like a general.
susie
Go figure that there is a "fragile peace" in Bosnia due to problems with muslims. Who would have thunk it?
It can't be crumbling. The stellar diplomacy of the Clinton Administration is still working. Just like in DPRK
Peace is not possible as long as islm exists, period.
If they are not trying to force everybody else to become mohammadian lunatics, they are fighting among themselves...sunnis trying to make the shits become sunnis..whahabies trying to force the shits and sunnis to be something more lunatical.
It will never end as long as islm exists.
he does... look like new-age, gay frindly hippie version politicaly correct general...
He was actually nicknamed "parfumed prince" by US officers
Impossible!! Bill Clinton fixed Bosnia.
More Clinton mess....
LOL that's funny. He just seems very effeminate (too lazy to look that up tonight, not a word I use very much).
susie
LOL! Thankfully he was just an prototype. They dissmanteled assebmly line and burned the blueprints. Still he was shipped to used politician/soldier depot (MSM military-political advisor)
LOL
Dream job for him! He can lie and be stupid all day long on TV and ware latest fashion details without any responsability (No fiering-squad for MSM mill/pol. experts... sofar...)
P.S.
hey teach :)
LOL perfect!
susie
I hope WWIII doesn't start in the seat of the Balkans like WWI did.
Why our administration doesn't see the writing on the wall with the Iranian and Al Quaeda backed Muslims is beyound me.
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