Opinion: Bob Dole's efforts to prevent the genocide of Bosnians, remembered

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Bob Dole, who died last Sunday at age 98, is memorialized this morning in his hometown of Russell, Kan. But his death was also felt this week in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and by those of us who covered the conflict there. As Bosnian politician Bakir Izetbegovic wrote, "He will remain in the lasting memory of all those [that] carry our homeland in their hearts."

As Yugoslavia broke apart along ethnic lines in 1991, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker looked at the destruction and declared, "We don't have a dog in that fight."

Americans looked at Bosnia and saw ghosts of their war in Vietnam. Western Europe saw the shadow of World War I, which sparked in Sarajevo. Both were wary of getting involved in someone else's conflict.