I'm still not sure what to think about the Bosnian war, though some things are obvious; like that the Serbs had concentration camps (I met a guy a few times who'd been forced to serve as a guard at one), the Bosnians didn't. And the Bosnians weren't all Muslims, let alone Islamists.
When they seemed to have no alternative, they looked to the West for protection. But the West was more interested in reaching a political arrangement with the Serbs and their Russian patrons. But still such a massacre is presented as a reason why there is no choice but intervention.
Incidentally, in Afghanistan the US financed a war against the Soviet occupation for a decade without anyone thinking it would be the trigger for a wider conflict. The US weren't lobbing missiles in themselves, but you can be sure that the Russian naval base at Latakia won't be a target in Syria, and the Russian ambassador will be able to walk in the bits of Damascus Assad isn't shelling in the morning after.
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