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From there, bin Laden and his terrorist group, which came to be known as al-Qaeda,
在阿富汗，本·拉登和他的恐怖主義分子，也就是之后的基地組織，
lashed out against countries, both Western and Arab, which offended bin Laden's ideas about world rule.
對西方國家和阿拉伯國家展開了一系列襲擊，因為它們違背了本·拉登關于世界統治的看法。
Fear of another Vietnam also affected the West's response to the former nation of Yugoslavia.
因為擔心另一個越南的產生，西方對前南斯拉夫的反應也有所改變。
Created in 1919, as part of the Versailles Treaty, Yugoslavia had been made up of various smaller nationalities,
南斯拉夫建立于1919年，按照《凡爾賽條約》的規定，南斯拉夫由很多個小民族共同組成，
such as the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes and Bosnians, and of various faiths, including Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Islam.
有塞爾維亞人、克羅地亞人、斯洛文尼亞人和波斯尼亞人，他們信仰不同的宗教，包括天主教、東正教和伊斯蘭教。
An ineffective monarchy before the Second World War,
南斯拉夫在二戰前由軟弱的王室進行統治，
Yugoslavia emerged as a strong and semi-independent communist state, led by Marshal Joseph Tito.
之后成為強硬和半獨立的共產主義國家，受約瑟普·布羅茲·鐵托將軍的領導。
But once the Soviet client state network had crumbled, each of the Yugoslavian peoples wanted to go its own way.
但一旦這個蘇聯附庸國的整個體系瓦解，南斯拉夫內各民族都想要按自己的方式行事。
However, the different nationalities and different faiths had long since been hopelessly entangled with each other.
然而，這些不同的民族和不同的信仰之前一直都交織在一起。
The region of Bosnia was a prime example.
波斯尼亞地區就是最好的例證。
Settled by Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Bosnian Muslims, the natives of Bosnia had been at each other's throats, literally for centuries.
這里既有信奉東正教的塞爾維亞人、天主教克羅地亞人，還有波斯尼亞的穆斯林、波斯尼亞當地人幾個世紀來一直是他們的傳話筒。
