How did we (the US) get this Bosnia thing so wrong?
It seems so clear to me: when in doubt, Islam is the bad guy.
Let's see; who was President when Bosnia flared up, and we chose sides?
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It wasn't W.
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It was that guy before him - Hillary's mealticket - What was his name?
"How did we (the US) get this Bosnia thing so wrong?"
Because prior to the break-up of Yugoslavia, most of the MSM and Western politicians couldn't even have told you what continent Bosnia was on. By the time Bosnia came on the radar, Slovenia, Bosnia and the Kosovo Albanians had hired high-powered PR firms to make their cases to the world.
James Harff of the PR Firm Ruder Finn did an interview with Jacques Merlino re representing the Bosnian Muslims & others which was pretty astounding. Exceprts from the interview can be found here: http://www.greens.org/s-r/20/20-24.html The PR Firms made "black" seem "white" and vice versa. Before you knew it, one political mouthpiece was bouncing off another and another, telling the same wrong-minded story and making stupid decisions based on lies.
The long & short of it was that we were duped.
I forgot to include Croatia in that group who hired high powered PR firms.