>As I indicated in post to Bill, I think that just eradicating a gov considered unfriendly seems to create more antagonism over there. Perhaps segregating and supporting some which are closer in Weltanschauung is a better strategy. Seen from here the separation in former Yugoslavia was a success, but perhaps Dragan can give more and better data.

Yup, all success. The wars weren't as bad as it was claimed to be, just looked so under the media scrutiny. The end result is that instead of one moderately developed, independent and generally successful country, now there are six or seven mostly unviable ones, or at least nothing to envy them for, completely dependent on any bidders that come along, deeper in debt than ever, living under the IMF dictatorship. And the market is a free-for-all. Anyone's free to try and anyone here's free to try to take a share in the loot.

Someone here had a nice quote, "sit back and enjoy the crisis". The only mistake is that the word crisis is inappropriate, as it assumes a temporary state.