The peace option means a functioning government. Not one that one party or another feels it is free to sabotage or paralyze. Half measures have failed and will fail. This mosaic that is Bosnia Herzegovina today is frequently a puzzle to observers that should not be sold to historians. Europe has already seen such mosaics and patchwork in past centuries thrive and gel into regions of reconciliation, reconstruction and economic prosperity.
Ancient enemies become economic partners with benefit to each.
Stalling of the formation of joint institutions serves nobody's interest, either one is on board the Dayton ship or one is not. Dayton already provides each entity with the space and freedom to enjoy its own identity. Groundless fear for that identity is not a reason not to move ahead. Fear of the future is unnecessary and full wholehearted participation we believe in the joint institutions is the best way for leaders to rapidly show their own peoples both social and economic progress. Indeed we think history's leadership prize will now go, not to the one most unbending or the one with the longest historical memory, but the most flexible and the most farsighted and the one most sensitive to the urgent economic needs of the people.