[Mb-civic] Was Bosnia Worth It? - Richard Holbrooke - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Was Bosnia Worth It?

By Richard Holbrooke
Tuesday, July 19, 2005; Page A21

If you wonder whether the 1995 American intervention in Bosnia was the 
right decision, go to a really horrible place, one whose name has become 
synonymous with genocide and Western failure. Go to Srebrenica.

<>Ten years after Bosnian Serbs under the command of Gen. Ratko Mladic 
murdered 7,000 Muslims there, I found myself back in that valley of evil 
as part of the official American delegation representing President Bush 
and the nation. We walked across muddy fields, under leaden skies, 
through a vast throng of victim families who were burying more than 600 
of their loved ones, their grief and personal hatred of those who had 
done this undiminished by the passage of a decade.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/18/AR2005071801329.html?nav=hcmodule 

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