How many wars have you lived through?
How many nights have you spent in cellars or air-raid shelters (if you were lucky to reach it)? How many times have you been in a train driving through an open field, watching planes flying over you asking if this train is a target? How many times did you send your kids to school knowing that a bomb from a sudden plane, a garnet from nearby village, a sharpshooter's bullet from across the street could appear and you'll never see them alive again? How many friends did you lose in the war and how many refugees did you give a hand?
There have been made great war comedies probably about every war in the history. This war isn't an exception. When a comedy is made by people who know what they are talking about, it can be funny, even if it is made by those that have been on the enemy side. But when someone belonging to a nation which has made nothing good to stop the war, in fact both in active and passive way made it last longer, be more cruel, end with injustice (and, last but not least, started more wars during last few decades than all other nations together - but this is not the topic here) makes a movie that shows local people inferior and incapable solving their own problems (yes, they could have solved it long ago if those same "civilized" nations didn't declare embargo on weapons for attacked countries) - yes, people in these countries have all moral right to feel insulted.
Or, simplified, you accept the usual Hollywood concept, that Gere's wife and child are, as Americans, by far superior to Bosnian people, so it is normal that Bosnians don't care for their worthless families, leaving him as the only emotional human person with family feelings that are unknown to those wild tribes.
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