So, Europe's warboiler is on again, and the liberals are eager to spill more blood in the hopes of transformative democracy or whatever...I hate liberals. I am one in a lot of respects, but I am not a Hobbit. Our first Bosnian adventure wasn't terrible, as in fact, our first Iraqi adventure wasn't terrible. This will be terrible.
It has been a long time since the United States paid serious high-level
attention to Bosnia. After the 1995 Dayton Accords ended the genocidal
horrors, Washington moved on to other priorities and largely left
oversight of the peace agreement to Europe.(AXE comment--who should have been doing it in the first place and now, now, since we're pretty much out of Europe, really should be doing it but obviously can't find their balls with both hands and a map...) Now it’s time to seriously
re-engage before the deal unravels. (AXE Comment -- No, it's not.)
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Bosnia’s people ultimately must take responsibility for what their country is to become. (AXE Comment: Yup. Same as Iraq and Afghanistan.) But the United States, which led the Dayton negotiations, has a vested interest in making sure the peace deal does not erode further. So does the European Union, which has 2,000 peacekeepers and a special representative in Bosnia.
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Bosnia’s people ultimately must take responsibility for what their country is to become. (AXE Comment: Yup. Same as Iraq and Afghanistan.) But the United States, which led the Dayton negotiations, has a vested interest in making sure the peace deal does not erode further. So does the European Union, which has 2,000 peacekeepers and a special representative in Bosnia.
Actually, no, the US doesn't. If we had no business in Northern Ireland, and we didn't, we have less of it here. There are more Americans of Irish descent in the greater NYC area than there are of "Bosnian" descent in the entire United States, Canada and our overseas possessions. Fuck 'em. Bailing somebody out once a generation is understandable, if not wise. Once every ten years, is just stupid.
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