I was experiencing the Dutch culture first hand at the time of the Srebrenica massacre and there's no doubt that the Dutch military was embarrassed by events there. The points already about the difference between the Britsh and Dutch approach is well made. As I said to my Dutch colleagues at the time I couldn't imagine that happening had the Paras been in charge. The price we pay though are atrocities such as Bloody Sunday and Amritsar. The Dutch are a very democratic society and far more trusting than us cynical Brits. In many ways they have a more advanced and balanced society than ours and probably credited the Serbs with the same values that they themselves held. Every nationality has it's own way of dealing with situations (Italians paying the Taliban not to attack them). Long may these differences continue, the world would be the poorer if every nation responded identically to a crisis. Who has the right answer to the Syrian issue for example?