Suspicions confirmed? Perhaps...
My belief has long been that the so-called Dayton Accords were a set up job by Wesley Clark and Richard Holbrook with a self serving quick fix in mind by two people who probably outsmarted themselves (neither for the first or last time...) -- and with no heed to long term US interests.
This LINK might provide an insight to some interesting news over the next few months. We'll see...
Too true. Though I would suggest
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Rex Brynen
...It is often a rather clever approach, satisfying both the short term imperative for political stabilization and transition with the long term need for justice.
that a clever approach often does the Petard hoisting thing. Most backfire eventually. Reminds me of the old saw; "There's never enough time to do it right but always enough time to do it over."
Noting that someone's imperatives frequently are not really that important and generally do not equal a benefit for most. Add to that that doing it over is almost universally more expensive in every respect and that the time lost between iterations frequently means opportunities lost... :rolleyes:
Yes, I know, reality intrudes -- but always a realist, I used to also think I was clever and could and do clever things. Most of 'em blew up in my face so I learned to quit that foolishness. :wry:
Dayton was yet another example, I think, of expediency and egos ignoring common sense. We'll see what turns up.
Yeah. Most all of it. I used to think I'd seen
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Stan
Well, we've seen almost all of it (I used to think)...
:wry:
the dumbest thing in the world and would then find out that people could invent dumber ones really quickly and easily; now I just watch, shake my head and grin as ever more trundle down the pike... :wry:
One of the bad gigs about being an old NCO is that you get to the point where you can look at a guy for the first time and in five seconds pretty well judge his net worth as a hooman bean plus his general honesty and testicular fortitude. You get one wrong every now and then but mostly, you can look and know. Not conducive to a great deal of faith in mankind, makes you old before your time. :D