>>>The solution is to emulate Miloshevich again, as in other things. Whenever he'd lose a war, he'd bail himself out by starting another.
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>>One difference is we have only lost one war. Milosevic lost a bunch of them. And every time he did, Yugoslavia got smaller. It was a bad idea in the first place to combine people with ethnic hatred for each other. Like Iraq.
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>The ethnic hatred wasn't there - it was mostly forgotten, at least in my generation. We've all had friends all over the country. It's when the politicians in grab for power started rousing the local version of rednecks and bible thumpers that it was reinvented.
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>And that's the real danger - the once civilized country can be pushed into any sort of barbarism by sheer propaganda.


What about the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia? Are you saying that was a myth?