Well there is not a lot of surprise there. Can you think of any situation anywhere in the world today where you do not think that the Muslims have all the right in the world to complain?
That's besides the point. The reason I said this about Bosnians, however, is because the Bosnian Muslims tried with the democratic approach and aggresors that didn't respect the democratic decision attacked Bosnia. This should've attrackted the full support of the West.
Actually the West has supported a unified democratic Bosnia all the way. You may not have noticed by Bosnia is full of NATO troops specifically there to make sure that Bosnia remains a united and democratic country.
Again, the embargo didn't help. What I mean is, they should've been sterner against the aggressors and not accept anything but the result of the election. The result of the election didn't say anything about a Serb republic in Bosnia, however it's there today. The Serb republic or a total division of Bosnia should've, if we'll go by democracy, come through democratic ways, not through aggression.
However, I think this policy is foolish. If Croats, Serbs and Muslims cannot live together in Yugoslavia they cannot live together in Bosnia. Just as the Bosniaks are entitled to exercise their right to self determination, so too, I think, are the Croat and Serb Bosnians. Divide the province. Reunite the pieces with whomever they want to reunite with.
There are 2 problems.
1. Bosnia is ethnically mixed. If there's a town with a predominantly Serb/Croat/Muslim population, there are villages with a majority of Serbs/Muslims/Croats there. It's to difficult to divide.
2. You seem to be against democracy when you say that the West shouldn't have had this policy, since the referendum said that their should be a Bosnian republic. To go and divide Bosnia and ignore the referendum isn't democratic. This is only a problem, btw, if you claim to be a supporter of democracy. If not, ignore this second point.
Whether Bosnia was a sovereign state or not is debateable, but let's accept that as the US seemed to.
Why is it debatable?
Where does Clinton say anything so stupid? The Germans in particular fell over themselves to support the Croats - the Croats being Catholics and having close ties to Austria and Germany at that time being ruled by a party that had strong ties to the Austrians and the CSU - a Bavarian Catholic Party.
I'll rephrase it. They supported the Christian cause, since they didn't want a Muslim country in the heart of Europe and thus ignored the democratic elections.
Which is morally right and just but is a waste of time I think. If the West ought to do anything, it ought to give everyone large sums of money on condition they give up the right to return home and partition Bosnia into three ethnically pure pieces. If the Bosnians cannot live together in Yugoslavia they cannot live together in Bosnia.
You seem to forget that the Bosnian Muslims were the most staunch supporters of Yugoslavia. The reason they wanted out was because Slovenia and Croatia allready had left, and so the Muslims (and Croats) didn't want to end up in Great Serbia. They held a referendum and the majority voted for indenpendence.
If Slovenia and Croatia hadn't left, the Muslims would have no problem staying in Yugoslavia and living together.
We wouldn't have any problem living together in Bosnia as we did in Yugoslavia.
I doubt most Bosniaks agree.
Well, after so much time under Communist rule, Bosniaks are pretty secularized. So you're probably right.
