With Vance-Owen, those nutters agreed to a peace deal in 1991.
4 years later, after 100k dead, they ended up with the same deal they wanted originally.
So, nothing really backfired on them. They wanted Republika Srpska, they got it. nThere were two choices, apparently. Srpska with 100k people alive, or Srpska with 100k people dead.
Their decisions were no more nutty than the recent decisions of Americans and Brits.
You're really setting the bar quite low there... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
The Balkans are reviled for their murderous ways, and meanwhile, others in the so-called civilized countries of Europe and N. America conduct 30 year wars, mass genocides, and complete annihilations of ethnic groups. As someone born in the Balkans, it does get me that my local murderers are somehow considered less civilized than the murderers further afield.
Although I must say that I did put "Balkan nutter" in scare quotes precisely because they aren't quite as much nuts as they are sometimes made out to be.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
I'm not of the illusion that the Kosovo Albanians could ever live under the Serbs again. But when you prop up the KLA and diminish the importance of Rugova, then a separation WILL HAPPEN.
