SELLING THE BOSNIAN MYTH TO AMERICA: BUYER BEWARE

["D.R." <danica_razlag@usa.net>]

"As NATO threatens to further employ its air forces in support 
of achieving Muslim military goals and the U.S. teeters on the precipice of
embroiling itself in another Vietnam and Somalia-type quagmire, it is time to
examine some of the myths being perpetuated about this conflict. These images
can then be juxtaposed with the reality on the ground. Accordingly, the
purpose  of this paper is twofold: first, to scrutinize 
the often distorted truth of this Balkan struggle and highlight the
sophisticated misinformation and disinformation being foisted upon the
American public by misguided "moralists" and unprofessional elements of the
media; second, to explain how the U.S. arrived at the dangerous position in
which it now finds itself. "
              
"The successful efforts of these firms resulted in the portrayal of unilateral
Serbian atrocities in such a way that future moral judgements were seriously
corrupted. Ailing Serbs in Muslim prison camps were described as Muslims in
Serb camps; Bosniac ethnic cleansing was ignored; statistics on mixed
marriages were inflated to manipulate an image of pre-war peaceful
coexistence; aid from Serbia proper was inflated or invented to force the
application of trade sanctions and embargoes; BSA military advantages were
falsely compared to supposed Muslim shortages; Bosniac military offensives
(more frequent than BSA attacks) went deliberately unreported; mass rape
charges were willfully manufactured 
and printed by the media; and the list continues with more odious examples
which the public accepted without challenge.6 "


Foreign Military Studies Office

SELLING THE BOSNIAN MYTH TO AMERICA: BUYER BEWARE

by LTC John E. Sray, U.S. Army 
October 1995 

"One man who minds his own business is more valuable to the world than 10,000
cocksure moralists." H. L. Mencken 

http://call.army.mil/call/fmso/fmsopubs/issues/bosnia2.htm




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