The process is already under way. The first stage, the opening up of the books of the big state-sector companies to independent audit, prior to evaluation, met with fierce political resistance. Perhaps this was inevitable, since the government-run companies are yet another source of funding for the major political parties. Such arrangements are not tolerated in Europe. They should not be tolerated in Bosnia-Herzegovina, either.
Governments can no longer be both a regulator and operator.
But reforms are all very well. Ultimately, we cannot impose a peace, because true and lasting change must come from within. The International Community can go on pushing for change and providing the security needed to make change possible. But it will not do so forever. Western taxpayers simply will not tolerate it - nor, as Floyd Spence of the House Armed Services Committee implies, should they be expected to.