[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.

[bob808]

Yes, had Bosnia's independence referendum included all of the "rump" Yugoslavia at that time, I'm sure results would have been much different. Your statement to the contrary is what is bizarre.

But that is not the issue I'm debating. The issue I'm concerned with is your hypocricy. You just posted that the RS's secession was illegitimate because it did not consider all of Bosnia. Yet you continue to maintain that Bosnia's secession was legitmate, even though it did not ask all of Yugoslavia.

They can both be either (a)justified acts of self-determination or (b)wrong-headed nationalist warmongering, and I concede there is a strong case to be made for both sides. But to claim "a" for Bosnia but "b" for the RS, as you do, betrays your true agenda and undermines all your posts.

[DestroyEraseImprove]

When the RS seceded, it began to murder and expel non-Serbs in order to create an ethnically pure state-

When Croatia seceded, it began to murder and expel non-Croats in order to create an ethnically pure state- as already attempted in WWII and finally achieved in 1995. In order to protect themselves from extermination, the Serbs had the legitimate right to establish the RSK and vote for secession.