At 8 the next morning, my wife, Kati, ran in and said: “Milosevic is standing in the snow outside and wants to see you immediately!” Milosevic said he was ready to “walk the last mile for peace.” He offered a compromise. Next Christopher and I went to see Croatian President [Franjo] Tudjman. His voice shaking, Tudjman said: “Get peace, get peace now! Make [Bosnian President Alija] Izetbegovic agree immediately!” Christopher and I almost ran to Izetbegovic’s room. We told him we would have to announce either an agreement or a failure. There was a long pause. Finally Izetbegovic said, “It is not a just peace.” Another long pause. “But our people need peace.” Bosnia and Kosovo and the Kurdish crisis remind us that this century ends with many of the unresolved problems that tore Europe apart at the beginning of the century.
