On Thursday, February 9th, 2012, at 08:27:09h -0500, Arny Krueger wrote:

In all seriousness, Europe has settled down a lot since WW2 and then the
cold war.

The Great War started in the Balkans with the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand.

The Balkan nations had another attempt at a conflagration in the 1990s in which
the US once again played a role.