Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when three aides, including Robert Frasure, who prepared the way for Holbrooke's diplomacy, were killed in a road accident near Sarajevo, but that tragedy only made Holbrooke more determined. When the Bosnian Serbs lobbed a shell into a Sarajevo market on Aug. 28, they triggered a massive NATO bombardment, and in the ensuing weeks, Holbrooke relentlessly bullied his interlocutors toward the bargaining table. Finally, they sat down to talk peace in Dayton, Ohio, last month. The reason everyone quit fighting, it was joked, was that this was "the only way to get Holbrooke to go home...
...sure, if the NATO force is sufficiently powerful the peace shall be kept for the duration of its presence. To anticipate harmony in the Balkans subsequent to NATO's withdrawal however, is not cynical or pessimistic as many would have you believe, but the unfortunate reality of a terrifically fierce ethnic conflict. Even Bismarck, who advocated a policy of "Blood and Iron" avoided intervention in the Balkans following the Crimean War for fear of the possible repercussions. Upon his removal by the Kaiser, Germany asserted itself, and World War I resulted...
FROM THE FURIOUS DEBATE IN THE U.S. Congress and the press, one might think the Bosnian accord is an exclusively military agreement on separation of forces, to be policed by 20,000 American G.I.s and 40,000 other NATO troops. But in fact the agreement reached near Dayton, Ohio--which will be signed this week in Paris unless the French derail it over an unsettled dispute about the fate of two French pilots shot down in August--envisions a process of peace and reconciliation in which ethnic cleansing will stop. The estimated 2 million people driven out of their homes...
...look like fairy-tale dreaming. The horrors of the 44-month war have permeated down to the smallest village, in cycles of brutality begetting retribution begetting counterretribution. It seems idle to think Muslims, Serbs and Croats can ever again live together peaceably. Far more likely: if the U.S. and NATO troops pull out in a year or so, they will leave behind a country split--in fact if not in name--into two or three ethnically monolithic, antagonistic parts where refugees still live in makeshift homes and where war criminals still rule...
...handful of suburbs that will revert to Bosnian-government control, and several thousand Ilidza Serbs shouted defiance at a rally after the Dayton signing. Jovan Bugarin was one who talked of armed resistance: "Everybody here has guns. And we will send our children out on the streets. The NATO soldiers won't kill children. Or we will drag NATO soldiers through the streets like in Somalia...