It was supposed to be a 1year peacekeeping operation that would keep the factions apart until their own forces could come in aid keep the peace from the ground up. They would have local elections and general elections for their national leadership. They would begin to resettle refugees. Dayton has long since passed. I was in Brcko a year ago. 1 week before the eruption there in which U.S. troops were harmed. I was able to see how far we had come. I have been to Bosnia four times. What I saw in Brcko was the resettling of refugees who did not even meet their nextdoor neighbors from the other factions. and I thought this is going to take a long time. The atrocities committed right in Brcko against thousands of Muslims are as bad as anything I have ever heard reported from the Nazi atrocities of World War II. Yet. we are trying to say "come and live together like Americans do." It looks like we are trying to create multiethnic neighborhoods. forcing people to do this prematurely. after the atrocities that have occurred in that country.
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