In Bosnia, it wouldn’t have taken an invasion to stop the killing. One or two air strikes on the artillery in the hiills overlooking Sarajevo would have stopped the slaughter there.

Mladic kept probing to see how serious the West’s threat was, and when he saw that it was no threat at all, he knew he had a free hand.

Any serious resistance would have prevented the massacres of Bosnia without the need for an invasion.

In Iraq, the entire country is under US occupation, and that’s an entirely different situation.

Anyway, Bosnia has no oil!

I do however have to laugh at the innate hypocritical logic used in describing the West’s involvement, or rather lack thereof in this situation, as in Rwanda around the same time.

Yes, they went into Iraq under false pretenses and the whole thing has been a shambles since, but surely Saddam was as big a genocidal criminal as these guys.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

No wonder no one is doing anything about Sudan.

Now, is there any more starkly ironic or hilarious alter-ego that he could have adopted? The mass-murdering war criminal nestling among the neo-hippies of the alternative medecine racket and pontificating about human quantum energy and Chinese herbs. It is just the best.

Again, on 15 October 1991, Karadzic foresees the extermination of the Muslims in the event of war. Talking to Miodrag Davidovic and his own brother Luka, Karadzic said: “In the first instance, none of their leaders will remain alive, they will be killed within 3 or 4 hours. They will have no chance of surviving.”

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