Sarajevo Daily: A City and its Newspaper Under Siege.
Washington Monthly › Vol. 27 Nbr. 3, March 1995
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Sarajevo Daily: A City and its Newspaper Under Siege.
Tom Gjelten, HarperCollins, $24
We struggle to learn from the Holocaust, the measure of modern state terror, because we desperately wish to avoid repeating its evil. There's a risk, however, of overlearning. As the saying goes, a man with a hammer sees everything as a nail, even if it's a screw. Full-throated advocates of intervention in Bosnia often dwell on the question of genocide in the hope that the high moral imperative of "never again" may influence policy. As one of the original interventionists, I must confess here, I'm guilty myself of having used the term genocide (rarely, with qualifications) in reference to Bosnia, yet I've never been comfortable with insisting it was taking place--mostly because it...See the full content of this document
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