Well, I've written on this many times on this website, and though I don't expect anyone to remember what I wrote, I can assure you that  I never called people barbarians who are at each other's throat. In fact, the post you're responding to is a defense of your casting the people of the Balkans in this manner: "The whole Balkans issue becomes messier and messier. I'm tempted to wish a plague on all their houses and be done with it. But, of course, we can't cos they'll be at each other's throats if we do." so, ultimately, I fail to see how you deduce that I believe they are all barbarians.

Instead, I suggested there were unresolved ethnic troubles in the region post WW2. Whereas Germany apologized for the actions of the Nazis, the ex-Yugoslavs never dealt with the legacy of fascism in the region. This means that many were in denial about its existence in the region. It was all too easy for radicals to exploit this tension, especially when the region was encouraged to subdivide once again by Western Europeans (Germany, mainly). That initial subdivision triggered the mayhem.

Peace-imposition is also what the US is supposedly doing in Iraq. The fact is, The Serbs-Croats-Muslims had an agreement in 1991 which was authored by Lord Carrington. That was scuttled by the interference of Germany and the USA. Subsequently, they displayed ultimate irresponsibility by scuttling the peace and then not providing a security apparatus to prevent bloodshed. To this day, the US and Germany point to Operation Storm as an example of how they defended the Croats and Muslims from the Serbs, though Storm itself was a massive ethnic cleansing campaign. These two countries then conspired again in Kosovo to bring war to the region. Germany was forging documents meant to show that Serbia had conjured "Operation Horseshoe" while at Rambouillet the US declined the peace agreement offered by the Serbs (full autonomy for Kosovo).

It's obvious that the western actors FOSTERED bloodshed rather than prevented it.