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General Briquemont

Vitez, Bosnia

When General Briquemont arrived in central Bosnia as the new UN commander, he parroted the UN line that "there was enough guilt to go around" and that all three sides were equally to blame. After his six month tour was up he was having a beer with some British officers on the base in Vitez and I overheard him say "the first thing to do around here is kick the living shit out of the fucking Serbs."


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Guest 01-Mar-2013 13:13
Oh really zvijezda? So that would mean airstrikes against Croatian positions in BiH which would vanquish one of the constituent nationalities in BiH and clear the path for the creation of a muslim nation state? How very humane and tolerant suggestion. It is easy to be a general after the battle is over. UN couldn't do much because the whole situation was confusing. The area the photos were taken in was and still is inhabited by Muslims and Croats, and in the state of a civil war it was impossible to judge which side was "right". Although, most of "hawks" like you will claim that HvO was an agressor army. But that kind of propaganda is already well known so there is really no necessity of commenting it.
zvjezda11 19-Nov-2007 00:42
Fuck moral equivalence.

The idea that all 3 sides were equally to blame has been proved wrong time and time again. I'm surprised it took Briquemont 6 months to realize that.

Immediate UN & NATO intervention, backed up with firm diplomacy and the serious threat of embargos on Serbia and Croatia, and airstrikes against murdering armies and militias would have ended the conflict before it even began. Instead the global community had their thumbs up their asses while people died. Hooray for diplomacy.