The Washington Post, August 11th, 1995
All along in the former Yugoslavia, American opinion and policy have rested on a rough arithmetic of atrocity. Favor has been extended or withdrawn according to prevailing notions of the criminal misdeeds inflicted or suffered by each party. Until now the Muslims have been the most favored by this measure, in rhetoric anyway, for their victimization; the Serbs the least favored, for their sins against other former Yugoslavs, with the Croats floating somewhere indistinctly in the middle. Sentiment is not the most solid basis for policy. It's subjective and emotional and invites inconstancy. In ...
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