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Senior editor at The Intercept. Author of 'Love Thy Neighbor' and 'Crude World.' Views my own (of course).

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    Peter Maass‏ @maassp 16 Oct 2018

    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.pic.twitter.com/4Uuvbfsp0N

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      2. Peter Maass‏ @maassp 16 Oct 2018

        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.

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      3. Peter Maass‏ @maassp 16 Oct 2018

        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.pic.twitter.com/qLaHDHOQgy

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      4. Peter Maass‏ @maassp 16 Oct 2018

        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: http://www.petermaass.com/articles/bosnias_ground_zero/ …

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      5. Peter Maass‏ @maassp 16 Oct 2018

        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:https://theintercept.com/2018/10/13/max-boot-book/ …

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      6. Peter Maass‏ @maassp 16 Oct 2018

        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.)pic.twitter.com/NOA3NEOaUM

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      7. Peter Maass‏ @maassp 16 Oct 2018

        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.

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      8. Peter Maass‏ @maassp 16 Oct 2018

        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. https://theintercept.com/2018/10/13/max-boot-book/ …pic.twitter.com/AXkNZekRnN

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      9. Peter Maass‏ @maassp 16 Oct 2018

        Peter Maass Retweeted Will Bardenwerper

        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.https://twitter.com/WBardenwerper/status/1052252027143639041 …

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        Will Bardenwerper @WBardenwerper
        Replying to @maassp @MaxBoot
        It is also a bit rich to smugly imply one is a “student of civil wars” and then cite as an example one (Sunni vs Shia) that was a direct consequence of a preemptive war you lobbied for.
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      10. Peter Maass‏ @maassp 16 Oct 2018

        Peter Maass Retweeted Sarah Cunningham

        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.https://twitter.com/S_Gladiolus/status/1052257564468150272 …

        Peter Maass added,

        Sarah Cunningham @S_Gladiolus
        Replying to @S_Gladiolus @WBardenwerper and 2 others
        And just a side note, my God, the ‘both sides do it’ is a classic genocide denial tactic - how disappointing to see it used by people who can affect foreign policy.
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      1. Aintropy‏ @Aintropy 16 Oct 2018
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        *tips fedora*

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