Thirteen years after the United States brokered the Dayton peace agreement to end the ferocious ethnic war in the former Yugoslavia, fears are mounting that Bosnia, poor and divided, is again teetering toward crisis.
... Yet for the first time in years, talk of the prospect of another war is creeping into conversations across the ethnic divide in Bosnia, a former Yugoslav republic that the Dayton agreement divided into two entities, a Muslim-Croat Federation and a Serbian Republic.
The power-sharing agreement between former foes has always been tense. Now, however, the uneasy peace has been complicated by Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia in February, which many here worry could prompt the Serbian Republic to follow suit, tipping the region into a conflict that could fast turn deadly.
... Bosnia, which has received more than $18 billion in foreign aid since 1995, remains a ward of the West, its security guaranteed by 2,000 European Union peacekeepers.
... For the country to progress, leaders on all sides say, the structure established by the Dayton accord must be overhauled. The country’s two entities have their own Parliaments, and there are 10 regional authorities, each with its own police force and education, health and judicial authorities.
The result is a byzantine system of government directed by 160 ministers, a structure that absorbs 50 percent of Bosnia’s gross domestic product of $15 billion, according to the World Bank.
- THIS TERRIBLY FLAWED IF NOT FAILED MODEL IS WHAT OBAMA AND ZBIG AND SCOWCROFT AND JONES AND POWER ENVISION FOR THE WEST BANK. THEY WANT THE IDF TO LEAVE, AND NATO TO TAKEOVER THE POLICING OF THE WEST BANK - AND THE TRAINING OF WEST BANK POLICE/SOLDIERS.
- MODELING AN OCCUPATION OF THE WEST BANK ON A FAILED OCCUPATION OF BOSNIA - OR THE FAILED POLICING OF SOUTHERN LEBANON BY UNIFIL - IS AN UNBELIEVABLY STUPID IDEA ON ITS FACE.
- THE ONLY THING THIS POLICY WOULD ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH IS SEVERELY HAMPERING THE IDF'S ABILITY TO RETALIATE FOR THE INEVITABLE TERRORIST ATTACK EMANATING FROM THE WEST BANK.
- EITHER OBAMA & COMPANY ARE STUPID, OR THIS IS THEIR REAL GOAL.
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