Originally Posted by
uxb99
Didn't we put this to bed in the 90's?
Paddy Ashdown said in the late 1990s that he felt peace in the Balkans would last for about 20 years, which was just long enough for a new generation that had never experienced the war to come into adulthood, and for the generation that did experience it to forget the horror. Incidentally, he noted, pre-Tito the ethnic conflicts would typically flare up every 20 years or so.