As a Croatian, I thank Bob Greene for the thoughtful and deeply felt column, ”You have seen their faces” (Aug. 9), on the Serbian detention camps.
As a human being, I salute the depth of his insight. As he points out, we humans will always find new hatreds, but what joins us-those who believe ourselves to be devoid of hatred and complicity-to the evil these hatreds engender are our self-protecting rationalizations.
We need not involve ourselves. For after all, as Stephen Chapman reasons in his Aug. 9 column (”Guardians of our own house or saviors of the world?”), we can tell ourselves ”we are no more endangered by what happens in Sarajevo than by storms on Saturn.”
Did those distant Saturnal storms, the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo by a Serb on June 28, 1914, and Hitler`s territorial expansion and racial cleansing, have anything to do with America, with the world?
