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To: Dale Baker who wrote (109866)	4/26/2009 6:38:06 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 541990

Precisely. It is a game and if we understand all the players and their moves, there are things that are unlikely, more likely, and very likely. In geopolitics, though, it seems logic falls short sometimes. It is difficult for a 3rd party to come into a fray and have all parties accept the moderation unless it is done by force. The U.S. entry into Bosnia possibly made it better than before our intervention. Temporarily. When the former Soviet Union fell apart, the pre-existing tensions you mention became the newly dominate rule in this game. So we have to honestly say that Bosnian atrocities were in part a consequence of the new "freedom to act" that people got as a result of the breakup of the USSR. One such freedom is the ability to go kill your neighbor. Freedom, like democracy, is not intrinsically "good" if minority rights are not respected.