We have staked a great deal on success in Bosnia.
Failure is unthinkable.
Bosnia's hopes for a quick, surgical end to its debacle appear ruined. They feel the accord has imposed an artificial peace, leaving them in a limbo where full-scale combat has temporarily stopped, but the hatreds, divisions, uncertainties and insanities of war continue unabated. Many blame the problem on the accord, which is widely considered flawed, vague and simplistic. The Bosnian Serb newspaper, Oslobodjenje Srpska, recently ran a political cartoon depicting a squiggly, convoluted road winding around the mountains of Bosnia. At the beginning of the road stood an exasperated-looking angel carrying an olive branch.