Under the Gun in Sarajevo

A day after the notable and -- as Manfred Worner said on Wednesday evening -- "historical" decision made by NATO in Brussels, I bumped into a good friend on the street. He greeted me with a hearty, "Hello, happy fellow," quite unusual given the conditions in Sarajevo these days. It wasn't easy for him to hide the devilish cynicism in this greeting, nor could we keep from breaking up completely.

We both knew, of course, what the meaning of this "happy fellow" was. Everyone in Sarajevo who managed to watch TV on Wednesday night -- meaning those who had enough juice...

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