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Letter to the Editor: Is another Balkan disaster on the way?

Fri, Sep 11 2009 09:58 CET byKevin Beck 702 Views 1 Comment
The Obama administration is paying attention to the Balkans in locations such as Bosnia-Herzegovina where the nasty Serbian ultra-nationalists are interested in demanding a breakup of the Eastern European nation, a move which would certainly trigger increased chances of bloodletting and violence.

Recent moves by the Serbian leader in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, have been harming the current peace by threatening to break up Bosnia-Herzegovina, a policy that might possible plunge this volatile region of Europe back into violence and destruction.

While ethnic tensions do exist, the population of Bosnia-Herzegovina is actually the least talkative about a possible future war; they want no fights among any groups or nations. It is the radicals in the Serbian and Croatian circles of the present-day arrangement in the country which are thinking violently.

If the Balkans erupt into warfare, this will present another global difficulty for the United States and its troubled and expensive foreign policies.

The US spent several billion dollars in the Balkans on reconstruction and foreign aid in the years after the 1992-1995 war and nearly all of this would be wasted if Bosnia is allowed to plunge into the killing it saw in the 1990s.
 

Kevin Beck
Las Vegas, Nevada

Comments

Anonymous Eric Siverson Fri, Sep 18 2009 03:11 CET
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I thought evreybody was happy in Bosnia ,The Bosnian muslims joined with the Bosnian croats . Now all they have to do is wait for the Serbs to come along and evreything will be fine . The dayton peace agreement was to have seperate police and seperate government .
The ink on the peace agreement wasnt even dry before NATO and the muslims wanted to change it. The plain truth is most christian don't want to live under sharia laws . How many Europeans are trying to takeup permanant resisence in majority muslim countries . No its islamist taking up residence in former christian countries . However ists not Serbs , as Serbs have several centuries of living under sharia's laws and they seem to not want to do it again .

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