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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, President George HW Bush declared the age of a new world order, where the 'rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle'. For a new generation of leaders, the west’s victory came with a responsibility – to use force to make the world a better place. Bosnia was their first test. Communism had held the disparate ethnic communities in the Balkans together as Yugoslavia, but following the seismic political changes in eastern Europe, the country deteriorated into a series of bloody wars. Should the incoming young President Bill Clinton and the then US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright use force to save innocent civilians from a genocide whose brutality and horror was being captured on the home movie cameras of its perpetrators?
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