Quote: Talk about contradictory but the whole mess of all of ex-Yugoslavia is due in large part to the mindless way all of the West has meddled and acted "impartially" [sic] in what was a civil war. I guess if the US end up steam-rolling Athisarri's plan through the UN they will turn around in 11 years time and say it is not working because of the EU and come up with another equally "impartial" [sic] solution. When one fails to take a fair, equal, impartial & holistic approach one can't help but find an inadequate solution - you would think the US had learnt this by now but clearly not!!! (Princip, UK, 6 February 2007, 16:55) --- Ambassador Montgomery's assessment of the Eurocratic Frankenstein Bosnia has become is right on the dot. Serbs in RS feel neither the social community with their Bosniak neighbors, nor any sense of political drive to reunite with them. Croats in the Federation are leaving en masse to Croatia, and RS is more economically sound and politically stable than Federation. As such, elites in RS could easily assume they were a separate political entity.
Separating warring groups does provide stability in the short run, but the Clinton Administration's unhealthy fetish to categorize everything in the Balkans by tribal name - based on the half-witted history lessons by journalists like Robert Kaplan - only reified ethnic cleavages and solidified differences that were originally popular only by nationalists. As a result, Bosnia, the one part of Yugoslavia were three ethnicities and religions coexisted the most, is now a patchwork of homogeneous ethnic enclaves separated by historical animosities. If this is the same type of Scandinavian-proposed Eurocratic experiment for Kosovo, then the West has truly learned nothing of their mistakes in the Balkans over the last 15 years. (Mike, 6 February 2007, 18:34) --- usually disagree with Montengomery, but he did a fairly decent job pointing out the flaws in the current system. However the good thing is it ended the violence and life there is fairly normal for the people on the ground and that is what is most important. Maybe now is the time for Republic Srpska to get full independence or be allowed to join with Serbia. Why not let the majority of people in Bosnia (Serbs and Croats) decide whether they want to stay in Bosnia or join with Serbia/Croatia? There would not be war this time if Croatia and Serbia agreed in a peaceful manner. It was a huge mistake on the part of the International Community not to consider or support something like this in the first place, it would have avoided a lot of death and bloodshed.
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