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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
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Alija Izetbegovic Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. Paddy Ashdown Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action. Joe Bob Briggs For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army. John Pomfret He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too. Stjepan Mesic I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. Paddy Ashdown I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. John Keegan I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke. Michael Ignatieff I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests. John Pomfret I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad. John Pomfret If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation. Coolio In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child. Christiane Amanpour In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles. Kate Adie It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. Jello Biafra Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist. Jill Dando My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. Paddy Ashdown Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia. Edward James Olmos The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with. Alija Izetbegovic The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me. John Pomfret There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books. Joe Sacco |
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