BTW, do you know what the main difference between Bosniak Muslims, Croats, and Serbs was, BEFORE this mess got started? At least for the overwhelming majority?
If you were Croat, you skipped Catholic Mass every Sunday.
If you were a Bosnian Muslim, you kind of forgot to go to the mosque every Friday.
If you were Serbian, you flipped a coin between attending the local soccer match and Orthodox Mass every Sunday...heads you went to see the soccer game and skipped Mass, tails you missed Mass and saw the soccer game instead.
It didn't matter a hill of beans until the local a-holes (not-so-ex-Communist thugs) suddenly "discovered" the joys of ethnic identity.
(BTW, I a a devout Catholic; I am particularly disgusted by Croats using the religion they ignored for 20-30 years as an excuse to go shoot at other people.)
So I tend to blame the civil war (gosh, THERE's a malapropism) on people either being mentally or morally defective, in that they chose to throw away a civil society just to keep some retread Communist hacks in power. I wish them all an improper relationship.
You know, I always felt the current problems went back to Tito's death, with everyone fighting over the inheritance afterwards due to the divisive system he set up to keep his but in power. But I do have to say the Serbs got a raw deal on this one, though. They were accused of so many gruesome things, many of which proved later to be exagerations or outright lies. Plus, as a conservative, I am very uncomfortable with this "moral crusading police the world" attitude that we seem to be developing. When it affects the U.S., we must act; otherwise, we're just repeating the steps of every FORMER world superpower. If we do that, I wonder how long until we become a FORMER superpower ourselves.
Anyway, for whatever it's worth, peace to you and have a Merry Christmas.