STING, have you been to Bosnia prior to the war, during the war, and then recently? Because I have. Bosnia is not a viable state such as it is right now. It is only 'free' as a technicality, there is corruption in every corner, there is organized crime, and people are trying to get out to the west, or neighbouring Croatia like there is no tomorrow. LIfe in Bosnia stinks save for the few who have excelled in criminal conduct and took advantage of the war to make money. Most of the rest of the people will tell you that their lives during repressive communism were fantastic compared to now. You just can't imagine the overwhelming sadness of the place that has lost its past, present and future. It is not like you think over there - it's not so black and white and additive. The Bosnia we know is dead, we buried it in 1992. It's not there and it will never be there again.
Just because people aren't openly shooting at each other, or aiming grenades at the next town over doesn't mean that things are good, or that people are 'free' as we perceive freedom to be, or that the democracy is working, or on the way to working. None of this is true - people in the west just tell themselves that so they can sleep at night, self-satisfied.