When in 1054, a schism occured in the Christian church, the Drina was again the border between Catholics and the Orthodox. It remained like this until the Turkish penetration and the spreading of the Ottoman Empire to our territories. All those who finished primary school and attended a history class on which the history of the Vojna Krajina was taught, know well how the Austro-Hungarian Empire received and used the Orthodox. Serbs, therefore, crossed the Drina in the medieval times, sometimes fleeing the Turks and sometimes as their loyal servants. Every peace initiative, unfortunately, must start with the reality and that is, as a starting point, almost the central premise.
Historic truths are history and, after all, past, obsolete situations.
The latest American negotiation initiative which is similar to the Contact Group plan, starts from the situation in the field and takes into account the present relations between the sides. Well, now pessimists or realists, call them whatever you like, are in their element and notice that Alija Izetbegovic, the leader of the majority people in Bosnia was responsible for fooling his people into believing that there would be no war, when even the pupils in the schools for retarded persons were convinced that the war was coming. Action of NATO aircraft, as well as those of the rapid reaction force artillery, against Bosnian Serbs' artillery, radar and anti-aircraft systems, should be understood as an attempt to bring Bosnian Serbs to the negotiating table and not, although the Muslim media and their propaganda try to portray it as such, as an attempt of the world powers to militarily defeat Serbs. On the contrary, judging from the so far known details of the American peace initiative, the Americans still count on Serbs. Economic sanctions, to tell the truth, have broken the backbone of the Serbian economy, but the Serbs were never good businessmen, after all.