[sjy]

what were the "facts on the ground" which MacKenzie misrespesented, viz. "defied" and what were the "facts on the ground" to which Dallaire has done such superior justice? I wanted a fact-driven answer here, and not glib generalizations, which I thought was at least implicit in my last post. If that wasn't clear, I apologize.

[Hoplite]

Dealing with Bosnia is a little bit like dealing with three serial killers -- one has killed 15, one has killed 10, one has killed five. Do we help the one that's only killed five? - Lewis Mackenzie, Congressional testimony, 1993.

The Commission is unable to determine the amount of harm and the exact number of violations committed by each of the warring factions. Nevertheless, it is clear that there is no factual basis for arguing that there is a "moral equivalence" between the warring factions. - UN Commission of Experts Report on Bosnia, 1994

Sorry that Mackenzie's statement doesn't conform to your desire to avoid glib generalizations, but that's part of the problem, isn't it?

Let me tell you how this is going to play out:

I'm going to lay out the facts on the ground, and then you're going to deny them in the case of Bosnia.

Ergo, any discussion as to Mackenzie vs. Dallaire is moot, isn't it?

For example, after over a year of preparation, Serbia invaded Bosnia in 1992 and conducted a war of aggression against it's neighbor.

Do you agree with the above statement?

I doubt it, and nothing, to include the submission of reports of various Serbian paramilitaries or an entire JNA Corps travelling across the Drina will suffice, will it?