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2010-04-24 Europe

As U.S. shrugs, Bosnia lurches toward disaster again

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Posted by ryuge 2010-04-24 01:01|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Europe's problem.

Posted by Gaz 2010-04-24 02:52|| 2010-04-24 02:52|| Front Page Top

#2 They don't want to stay together no matter how much we want it.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-04-24 09:47|| 2010-04-24 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Joe Biden to the Bosnians: "Hey, how about them Red Sox?"

Posted by Frank G 2010-04-24 10:16|| 2010-04-24 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 More international exposure for Joe Biden? What could this portend?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-24 10:18|| 2010-04-24 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 More ally insulting gaffes.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-24 10:45|| 2010-04-24 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 As usual, the US State Department botches things and will cause yet another crisis that will eventually cause the president to deploy troops.

I wish they had crashed that 9/11 plane into State instead of Pentagon.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-04-24 10:50|| 2010-04-24 10:50|| Front Page Top

#7 What Gaz said.

Posted by Perfesser 2010-04-24 11:32|| 2010-04-24 11:32|| Front Page Top

#8 why should we interfere when 99% they hate us and say we are meddling, I agree with GAZ let the EU take care of it

Posted by chris 2010-04-24 11:40|| 2010-04-24 11:40|| Front Page Top

#9 It might be "Europe's problem", but as I recall from last time, Europe didn't handle it too well. If we leave it to Europe we can expect a lot more massacres, just like in the Congo with the Lords Resistance Army.

Posted by Steve White 2010-04-24 12:08|| 2010-04-24 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Europe didn't handle it too well.

About as well as they handled the denuclearization of Iran before President Obama took over. That is to say, they declaimed about their diplomatic expertise and accomplished nothing except raising false hopes and eating marvelous dinners.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-24 13:07|| 2010-04-24 13:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Steve, true. An outcome we may have to recognize, and soberly let events take their course anyway. From first hand experience, we've already have enough on our plate.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-04-24 13:09|| 2010-04-24 13:09|| Front Page Top

#12 I've spent a decent amount of time in Bosnia. Sarajevo is a world-class city, and it has several other places, like Mostar, that I would recommend to anyone.
But it's not much of a country. The first 100 kilometers into it, you see more Croatian flags than Bosnia. The Republika Srpska area, up to the north, might as well be part of Serbia already. The Islamic extremists are funding radicalism in Sarajevo (I even saw my first Iranian embassy there).
The solution is to get all these Balkan countries into the EU as soon as possible. Then, borders won't matter so much, and the ethnic and political tensions will die down.
Unfortunately, I'm not in charge over here.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2010-04-24 17:44|| 2010-04-24 17:44|| Front Page Top

#13 A top State Department official on a recent visit here ... said that if Srpska seceded, it would be "an independent statelet without a friend," similar to Abkhazia, a state that broke away from the former Soviet republic of Georgia

What an ignorant thing to say. Abkhazia has the best possible friend in their situation, Russia.

Posted by phil_b 2010-04-24 19:24|| 2010-04-24 19:24|| Front Page Top

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