Thursday, August 31, 2006
From Time: Is the Bosnian Peace Un-Raveling?
Is the Fragile Peace in Bosnia Hercegovina Unraveling
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1449151,00.html
This article was called to my attentiion by seesaw, a regular reader from the inception of this blog, and one of the first to link to me.
I have been covering the events around the up-coming elections in BiH, things like the destruction of Izetbegovic's tomb. There's supposed to have been an arrest in this case, of someone who has a Muslim name btw.
Some of the problem is that elections are always dirty, and BiH is no exception.
Any politician, or political consultant will tell you that people do not vote for things, they vote against, again BiH is no exception.
So politicians instead of saying what positive things they will do to make better lives for their people, will attack other politicians who don't agree with them. Then the attacked politicians attack back and so on and so on.
Next thing you know, someone is attacked physically, or even killed, and then all Hell breaks loose.
I for one am tired of politicians putting their own advancement ahead of their country, or their people whether the politician is an American, a Mexican, an African, an Arab, an Iranian or a Bosnian.
But that said, ANY politician is only doing what he or she does to stay in a job. Some of it is the fault of normal people who do not pay attention, and who when they do, do it in an ignorant way. That sort of ignorant participation is a world problem, not merely another thing that's wrong in the Balkans.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1449151,00.html
This article was called to my attentiion by seesaw, a regular reader from the inception of this blog, and one of the first to link to me.
I have been covering the events around the up-coming elections in BiH, things like the destruction of Izetbegovic's tomb. There's supposed to have been an arrest in this case, of someone who has a Muslim name btw.
Some of the problem is that elections are always dirty, and BiH is no exception.
Any politician, or political consultant will tell you that people do not vote for things, they vote against, again BiH is no exception.
So politicians instead of saying what positive things they will do to make better lives for their people, will attack other politicians who don't agree with them. Then the attacked politicians attack back and so on and so on.
Next thing you know, someone is attacked physically, or even killed, and then all Hell breaks loose.
I for one am tired of politicians putting their own advancement ahead of their country, or their people whether the politician is an American, a Mexican, an African, an Arab, an Iranian or a Bosnian.
But that said, ANY politician is only doing what he or she does to stay in a job. Some of it is the fault of normal people who do not pay attention, and who when they do, do it in an ignorant way. That sort of ignorant participation is a world problem, not merely another thing that's wrong in the Balkans.
# posted by Katja R. @ 6:44 AM 
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Yes, you are right. Let's hope the situation in Bosnia does not deteriorate too much during the election campaign that has just started.
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