Stephanie Jackson

The war in Bosnia started with the clash of a few religious groups: Slavic Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. As these religious groups differed they grew apart and became very violent with the help of Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic was a definite fan of genocide, so it seems, and I’m sure that’s not a positive influence on the people around him. I think this was another Iraq type issue, where we felt it was important to take a powerful and aggressive person out of control.

So, NATO sends in troops, some of them being American troops, who begin to train Muslim troops and supply them with weapons. In this war some technology is used such as electric maps, “robotic vehicles” (they look sort of like golf carts; not the typical sci-fi “robotic vehicles”), and apparently, we used “aerial mind-control broadcasts” on civilians and enemy troops in Bosnia. We also got smarter with defense by using such things as towed rollers to set off mines before troops moved into a certain area, Range Body Armor, and mine awareness training.

Well, after the war finally ends there are over 250,000 casualties and Bosnia pretty much hates us. I guess if an American ever wants to go to Bosnia, he/she would have to expect to be shot at as soon as he/she stepped foot on that soil. Fortunately tension between the three religious groups is apparently going down and our friend Mr. Milosevic is in jail and going on trial soon (if he doesn’t pass before then) which was pretty much the point of the war anyhow.

As I always say, I don’t really want to form an opinion on this war, just because I don’t know what little silly controversial issues could be behind it (i.e. we’re in Iraq supposedly just for the oil) but if I had to make a decision, I would say we went to Bosnia for a good reason. It’s good, though, this time that we went in through NATO instead of just going on our own terms, because it wasn’t an issue between America and Bosnia, it was a moral issue. It also doesn’t seem like we made very many enemies so it must have been a supported effort anyhow.