EUFOR Soldiers In the BalkansFrom Foreign Policy Blog:
Gerhard Sporl has a fascinating piece in Der Spiegel looking at the EU's open-ended project in the Balkans, particularly Bosnia:
In the Balkans, the EU is trying to pursue a policy that the United States has just abandoned: nation building. Inzko's task is to transform this odd, artificial nation [Bosnia] of four million people into a constitutional state, a market economy and a parliamentary democracy. But while control of Iraq will gradually be handed over to that country's elite, the nations that have been created in the Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, remain deeply dependent on the armies of officials, soldiers and skilled personnel brought in by international organizations. There is no timetable for the gradual transfer of power to national governments. In other words, Europe has no exit strategy.
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My Comment: The key phrase in this story is the following ..... no exit strategy.