Bosnia in Danger of Collapse

(the author of LNR spent 12 years in the Former Yugoslavia working with the United Nations as a political affairs officer).
Holbrooke, the American diplomat who apparently made an “immunity deal” with Karadzic, is now again, along with Former High Representative of Bosnia- Paddy Ashdown, calling for the WRONG policy in Bosnia. They warn that Bosnia is in danger of collapse. LNR says- “good”- it’s about time this artificial forced union of people who do NOT wish to live together dies out. Especially with the totally illegal and precedent setting recognition of Kosovo, the Serb Republic and and the Croatian half of the Croat-Muslim Federation wish to leave Bosnia and join Serbia and Croatia respectively. Territorial lines are now established and functioning, so, since Kosovo was illegally and forcibly split from Serbia, why can’t the Serbs and Croats in Bosnia democratically leave a dysfunctional artificial edifice of the international community ? Ashdown and Holbrooke warn of dysfunction and continued antagonism- thereby themselves proving the mistake of creating a Bosnia in the first place by forcing the three people’s to live together when they clearly did not want to, before AND now. Bosnia was a gift to Saudi Arabia to keep oil prices down during the Clinton years, and for Clinton to display to the Arab countries America’s even handedness when it came to Muslim peoples. Plans to partition Bosnia after the Dayton Peace Accords was supported by those of us on the ground, the UN, diplomats, all the people except Izetbegovic’s radically influenced Muslim government who thought that without a Bosnia, they would be isolated and left with too little.