Was Holbrooke Responsible for What Happened to Bosnia?

Dear Friends of Bosnia, I feel that I need to respond. I do not want support either side, I merely want to try to correct the wrong perception among both sides that Holbrooke is responsible for what happened with Bosnia during the "peace process". That become a stereotype, and as you know, stereotypes are usually false. It is probably true, that Holbrooke was not a friend of Bosnia, but he could not give half of Bosnia to Karadzic's Serbs. How could he give something where he does not have any authority? Was not he merely a mediator, an agent whose job was to figure out what the two sides are willing to sign? His only "guilt" is that he made a correct judgment about Izetbegovic, that Izetbegovic is willing to give half of Bosnia to Karadzic's Serbs? And, that was not difficult to see at all. Indeed, Americans never pressured Bosnians to accept any deal, according to the common sense rule, that you cannot punish the victim of aggression if a negotiation fail. Warren Christopher said at the beginning of 1993: "We cannot threaten Bosnia, we can punish only Serbia?" Remember, friends of Bosnia in American Congress won by 2/3 margin a long battle to arm Bosnians, but Izetbegovic suddenly refused to accept the arms and requested from American's to give 6 more months to Serbs to accept the deal, i. e. to take half of the Bosnia. At that moment it became clear, that "Bosnians also want the division". At that moment Americans stopped trying to preserve the unified Republic Bosnian Hercegovina. Not Holbrooke, but Izetbegovic is the man who had authority to sign off the half of Bosnia. Only he was able to sell the deal to Bosnians, until the Serbian Republic was established, and the victorious Army of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina dissolved. In the process he has to cut some legal corners, which made the Dayton constitution illegitimate, and the temporarily suspended Constitution of the Republic Bosnia-Herzegovina still the only legitimate constitution. This is not the place to get into Izetbegovic's motives. Let that be done by serious researchers. Hence, one can run in circles repeating the stereotypes about "Holbrook's twisting hands" or he can try to understand what really happened. Thanks, Muhamed Borogovac