FREE AND FAIR elections are critical to the rebuilding of Bosnia. War crimes trials are a must. And compliance with the Dayton accords offers the only real chance of peace, however fragile. But these are just a few of the wideranging imperatives brought on in the aftermath of the Bosnian debacle. So many more remain to be addressed.

Roads, bridges, homes, and factories lay in dusty rubble. Electricity, drinking water, gasoline, and food are all in dangerously short supply. The few doctors need medicine for the surfeit of patients, and war-maimed victims need artificial arms and legs. Schools need teachers. Libraries must have books. Without loans, entrepreneurs cannot start the businesses necessary to employ the two million out-of-work Bosnians. And the Muslims, Croats, and Serbs who...