was that France and Germany should have sent in a joint force of a few armoured divisions, to separate the belligerents along the Serb-Croat front line, and start a process of forcibly annexing the Yugoslav republics to the EU.

Not politically realistic at the time, of course. But fewer deaths, and an obligation to find a political solution.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}