In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization.
I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.
I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.
From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.
An international presence in Serbia's Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia's participation, would be acceptable.
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.
No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.
The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.