[bob808]

Your "apples and oranges" all taste like the same bitter grapefruit to me, Hoplite. If the RS's vote was "exclusionary" because it did not include the entire parent entity (all of Bosnia), then so was the Muslims' referendum on Bosnian independence because it did not include all of Yugoslavia.

You condemn the RS for not getting permission from the rest of Bosnia prior to secession, but are fine when Bosnia split from Yugoslavia without the latter's consent.

No, Hoplite, that is not very intellectually honest at all.

[Hoplite]

Considering that Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Kosovo have all opted out of Yugoslavia when given the chance to do so, your position that enlarging the voter base to include all of Yugoslavia would have changed the outcome of the Bosnian referendum is bizarre.

No wonder everything tastes bitter to you, Bob - the world operates under different principles than you do. When the RS seceded, it began to murder and expel non-Serbs in order to create an ethnically pure state - compare that to the language in the Bosnian referendum.

That you ignore that one salient feature of the RS damns more than just your sense of taste, Bob.