[bob808]

Better that ALL of the Balkan peoples die than one or more of them get into a position to start World War III...

Well, keep in mind that if we had simply kept out of it, yes, Slobo would still be in power, but al-Quaeda's Bosnian and KLA buddies would be no more and the region would be a lot more quiet and settled now. Clinton and Albright seemed to have no problem ignoring Sudan, but for some reason (Operation Distract Attention?) felt compelled to bomb a sovereign nation over 2,000 (total) casualties in what was at that time a low grade civil war.

Clinton & Albright's "Humanitarian Bombing" is what I consider dangerous and more likely to blow up into a major war rather the local fight between Milosovic/Tudjman/Izetbegovic.

[Poohbah]

And that "quiet" would have lasted until ol' Slobo felt strong enough to beat somebody else, and so on, and so on. Slobo apparently felt that if a Serb ever passed gas in a given location, that place suddenly became part of Greater Serbia, forever and ever (Dubrovnik comes to mind--historically Croat, 80% Croat population, but it was part of "Greater Serbia" all the same).