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Is the Fragile Peace in Bosnia Crumbling?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1449151,00.html ^

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichristianity; balkans; bosnia; islam; islamofscism

1 posted on 08/29/2006 2:52:56 PM PDT by kronos77
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To: kronos77

But I just saw Wesley Clark on Fox saying what a great job he did there...
susie


2 posted on 08/29/2006 2:54:53 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: joan; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; Banat; ...

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.


3 posted on 08/29/2006 2:55:49 PM PDT by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org say NO to Al-Qaeda new sanctuary (Go IDF!))
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To: kronos77
Is the Fragile Peace in Bosnia Crumbling?

IS clinton's fragile peace in Bosnia crumbling?

Doogle

4 posted on 08/29/2006 2:56:49 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF...68-73,,..."never store a threat you should have eliminated")
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To: brytlea

Ahhhhh..... Wesley "once-I-was-a-general" Clark....


5 posted on 08/29/2006 2:57:10 PM PDT by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org say NO to Al-Qaeda new sanctuary (Go IDF!))
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To: brytlea

Yeah-the Weasel, Half-Bright, and bj--three friggin' genuis intellects we owe a lot to.


6 posted on 08/29/2006 2:57:52 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: kronos77

I cannot figure out why Fox loves him so much....
He doesn't even LOOK like a general.
susie


7 posted on 08/29/2006 2:58:55 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: kronos77

Go figure that there is a "fragile peace" in Bosnia due to problems with muslims. Who would have thunk it?


8 posted on 08/29/2006 2:59:00 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of an American Soldier)
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To: kronos77

It can't be crumbling. The stellar diplomacy of the Clinton Administration is still working. Just like in DPRK


9 posted on 08/29/2006 3:00:06 PM PDT by jw777
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To: kronos77
Of course the "fragile peace" is crumbling....muslms are involved. Any "peace" where muslims are involved is no "peace". It only looks like peace as long as the "flock" stays in line, and the women are content to live in burkas...and the people living next door agree to convert...and if they don't, they are forced to, hence a "crumbling peace".

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.

10 posted on 08/29/2006 3:04:28 PM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Islam, liberalism and abortions are terminal..)
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To: brytlea

he does... look like new-age, gay frindly hippie version politicaly correct general...

He was actually nicknamed "parfumed prince" by US officers


11 posted on 08/29/2006 3:04:38 PM PDT by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org say NO to Al-Qaeda new sanctuary (Go IDF!))
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Is the Fragile Peace in Bosnia Crumbling?

Impossible!! Bill Clinton fixed Bosnia.

12 posted on 08/29/2006 3:04:47 PM PDT by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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Where's Ann coulter when you need her?


13 posted on 08/29/2006 3:04:48 PM PDT by F-117A (They say there is no such thing as an ex-Marine,.Murtha disproves that!!!)
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To: kronos77

More Clinton mess....


14 posted on 08/29/2006 3:13:48 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: kronos77

LOL that's funny. He just seems very effeminate (too lazy to look that up tonight, not a word I use very much).
susie


15 posted on 08/29/2006 3:42:41 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: brytlea

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)


16 posted on 08/29/2006 3:56:05 PM PDT by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org say NO to Al-Qaeda new sanctuary (Go IDF!))
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To: kronos77

LOL


17 posted on 08/29/2006 3:59:34 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: brytlea

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 :)


18 posted on 08/29/2006 4:09:35 PM PDT by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org say NO to Al-Qaeda new sanctuary (Go IDF!))
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To: kronos77

LOL perfect!
susie


19 posted on 08/29/2006 4:12:01 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: kronos77

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.


20 posted on 08/31/2006 10:25:00 AM PDT by FrankOwens
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