Life is too short to fact-check @MaxBoot but this shouldn't take long. His description -- of the genocide against Bosnia's Muslims -- as a tit-for-tat "cycle of violence" between Serbs and Bosnians is dead wrong, a stunning rewriting of ethnic cleansing. 
I covered the Bosnia war for the Washington Post and wrote a book on it. There's no question among historians -- there was a planned Serb attack on Bosnia that didn't have any military provocation. Bosnian massacres as a trigger & justification for what Serbs did? It's absurd.
There was no "cycle of violence" between Serb & Bosnian fighters as the war began. Serb paramilitary groups swept through Muslim parts of Bosnia in 1992 and killed wantonly. This photo by Ron Haviv shows the most notorious group, the Tigers, as they killed civilians in Bijeljina.
In summer 1992, journalists even uncovered death camps run by Serbs. A question for @MaxBoot: Can you identify one massacre *by* Bosnian Muslims that fed into a "cycle of violence" that started the war? Here's what I wrote about the camps in my book fwiw: petermaass.com/articles/bosni…
A bit of background to this thread. A few days ago, I wrote an article on Boot's epic errors wrt the GOP and Iraq (which he has semi-acknowledged in a new book). I asked why anyone would listen to him now. He's upset about what I wrote. Here's my story: theintercept.com/2018/10/13/max…
So Boot writes a story that proves my point by getting history wrong again, blaming Bosnians for a genocide committed against them. He also suggests the same about Tutsis in Rwanda -- they were partly responsible for the genocide Hutus committed. (@PGourevitch, call on line one.)
A last word, I hope, about his problem with facts. Boot writes that my story called for his political exile due to his errors on Iraq. As my story and its headline made clear, it's due to Iraq *and* his support for the GOP. If it were just Iraq, he wouldn't be exceptional.
Fwiw he executes a half-clever dodge on Iraq, pleading in his WP story that many people were wrong -- "Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Charles E. Schumer, among other Democrats" he writes -- so why blame him so much? I explain why in my article. theintercept.com/2018/10/13/max…
Coda -- here's a good point from @WBardenwerper about the irony of Boot discussing the origins of the Sunni-Shia fighting in Iraq without mentioning it was a direct consequence of an American invasion that Boot advocated.
Another coda, this one from Sarah Cunningham, about the essence of genocide denial coming from a weary (and historically inaccurate) stance that all sides are to blame.
