Rattled Sabers, Redrawn Maps

While Bosnia lies dying, politicians in Geneva talk about dismembering it and Western leaders try again to coordinate their plans for bombing it

This time it might really happen. The vicious 16-month war among hate-filled neighbors that has soaked Bosnia and Herzegovina in blood -- and seared the conscience of the rest of the world -- might be coming to an end. But not because the combatants have seen the horror of their ways or the Western democracies have made justice prevail. If the killing does grind to a stop in the coming weeks, it will be more out of collective exhaustion than the result of any agreements or pressures the politicians are trying to impose.

The hardest fact, the one that matters most,...

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