"In the Land of Blood and Haney"

Column in The Washington Post
Cohen: Film Angelina Jolie is inevitably one-sided story
The Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen watched the movie Angelina Jolie "In the Land of Blood and Honey" and voiced his opinion about the film debut of holywoodske actress, the role of American and NATO war in Bosnia, the victims of Srebrenica ... We bring you the translation of today's column in the prestigious American newspaper.
Richard Cohen, columnist for The Washington Post
Richard Cohen, columnist for The Washington Post
We are facing a bad time. Nationalism is on the rise across Europe. In the spring of the Arab world has suddenly become cold and sects, tribes, clans, religious, religious and military movements take us back a step back, watching each other for the upcoming battles.

Now comes a powerful and very interesting movie about Angelina Jolie ugly war of the 90s in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I do not know whether the film is about what happened or what is going to happen. I am afraid that this is different.

The film is called "In the Land of Blood and Honey", and the damage is that it is not played by director and screenwriter Angelina Jolie. Actors speak B / H / S language (subtitled in English). The audience for this film barely exists.

Nevertheless, the film is only partly about the Bosnians. Also, this movie tells us about the Americans who are in almost every scene, occasionally quoted or mentioned, but we're always there somewhere, while the Bosnian women raped and kept as slaves, and then raped. Young and beautiful, the happiest moment before women suddenly become unhappy.

People are hardly spared. Approximately 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men of all ages, were massacred in Srebrenica. It did not do the 1940th the Germans, but they 1995th The Serbs, he witnessed the scene and confirmed by reconnaissance satellites - thousands of men suddenly disappear, and most of us have not done anything.

So am I, on the left, was in Bosnia in the Pentagon, and I am convinced that the war could be avoided. On the other hand, the right side, the Bush administration, among which was a realist, and James Baker, secretary of state.

"We do not have your dog in this fight," Baker was quoted as saying.

Women were raped, men were slaughtered, most of us have fun with their work. We have other helpers in the omission.

The crimes in the Bosnian war are shockingly discovered, the all-too-surprising and a ceasefire. For them, it was known at the time when they occurred.

However, there were the news, said that they were opovrgavani, of course. The victims did not have names and faces, had no lovers or children, as they have in the film, Angelina Jolie.

The victims were treated as a challenge to foreign policy issue for or against the role of the United States, the United Nations, as the rest of the Second World War, the inevitable consequence of the fall of communism and the wars with no exit strategy: Do not enter, no exit.

Film Angelina Jolie is inevitably one-sided story. The Bosnian Serbs were "difficult". But the implosion of the war in Yugoslavia was a complex event. Serbs were evil, but also Muslims and Croats had blood on their hands.

Movies can not be the truth, because truth is a complex and confusing and, hell, it changes over time.

Just as in life, the Serbian commander, fictitious display of real Ratko Mladic, the main villain in this film. The young man was ordered to Srebrenica. He received his adaptation.

In September 1995. The NATO has finally ended the war and only a few months, Richard Holbrooke was''coined''the peace agreement. It turns out that the United States and NATO in the short term can make a difference without much hassle.

We can not be the world police, I know. However, the world needs a policeman and who will it be if not the U.S.? We choose our moments, where you can intervene, as we successfully did in Libya. We need to do, not alone, certainly not alone but in concert with others.

Where you can do something, you have to do something.

Some bad days are coming. Maybe history does not repeat, but human nature surely will.
Contracted economy means spreading hate. This is no time for silly reduce the Pentagon budget.

Angelina Jolie made her own film to express dissatisfaction with the apathy and incompetence of the international community in Bosnia.

It worked. We had a dog in this fight, not just interest, but self-esteem.

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