hrusta wrote:ja sam gledo taj spot u subotu imam nekoliko sati rata na dvd-u, i nesto sam presnimavo/editovo, i tako se fino sjetim sta sam prezivio u SA u toku rata, i tako me taj spot podsjeti na te dane prezivljavanja, i kad sam sam se penju u izgoreni dio sibice i penjo se do 8 sprata i virio prema grbavici da vidim vide li se cete, bicikolo do stupa, iso na zuc u drva. evo sta je reko onaj mamlaz ovan:
"Don't dream dreams," was the celebrated advice Lord David Owen gave to the Bosnians as they battled the mass murderers, ethnic cleansers, and indicted war criminals licensed to kill by Slobodan Milosevic.
The tip from the British mediator came at the end of 1992 when the Bosnian capital Sarajevo was under Serbian siege. The racial pogroms had uprooted two million people, mainly Bosnian Muslims, and left two thirds of Bosnia under Serb control.
"Don't, don't, don't live under this dream that the west is going to come and sort this problem out," Lord Owen said. The Bosnians were not dreaming. They were living a nightmare.
mater mu jebem lordovsku.....

I njemu i Douglas Hurd-u
At long last the Serbs responsible for committing atrocities in Bosnia and Kosovo are being charged for war crimes in The Hague. For this, credit is due to the determined quartet of [Prime Minister] Tony Blair, [Foreign Secretary] Robin Cook, [President] Clinton and [Defence Secretary] Madeleine Albright.
But Douglas Hurd ought to be tried alongside the Serbs. When he was Foreign Secretary, under John Major, the Serbs were committing atrocity after atrocity against Muslim and Croat in places such as Banja Luka but, each time, Hurd remained adamant that British troops could not help the civilians against slaughter, because British troops would be ‘at risk’. Hurd constantly argued with newspaper and television reporters, who wanted something done.
I suspect the Serbs bribed Hurd for, as soon as he left his post as Foreign Secretary, he began a lucrative job in a Serb bank. Well, Hurd has got his blood money! The Americans wanted to intervene but were constantly rebuffed by Hurd, so they did not take any action, unwilling as they were to act unilaterally.
How many of the bereaved in Bosnia and Croatia must be cursing Douglas Hurd! That man must have a heart of stone! John Major deserves blame too for not dismissing Hurd for acting culpably!
New Labour in Britain and the Democrats in America, whatever critics may say of their other policies, are to be congratulated for their foreign policy: they had the audacity and resolve to right a wrong and actually bomb Yugoslavia. This has sent a message to the Serbs, and indeed the world, that depravity in military conflicts will not be tolerated by the USA, Britain and the rest of the civilised world [and our current role in Sierra Leone is similarly to be applauded].
Baroness Thatcher was absolutely correct to say that British and American intervention in the Balkans came woefully late, and for this Douglas Hurd is primarily responsible. This one man is accountable for hundreds of thousands of casualties, and the untold suffering of millions, in Bosnia and Croatia, over a number of years!
Yours sincerely, Dr. Umar Azam