The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical.
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.
I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.
We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.
Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.
I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.