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The first multi-ethnic unit of the Bosnian army, comprised of Croats, Muslims and Serbs, left for Iraq on Wednesday to assist US-led forces clear unexploded ordnance.

Bosnian leaders said they hoped the deployment would change the country's image from one dependent on foreign peacekeepers to a country able to contribute to international security.

"Make the world recognize us by your professionalism and efficiency, and not the past war, poverty and the high unemployment rate," Bosnia's top general, Sifet Podzic, told the soldiers before they embarked.

In less than a decade, you're going to start seeing the same thing out of Iraq and Afghanistan (and, God willing, Iran). Can you imagine a joint Iraqi Kurdish, Shi'i, Sunni battalion deploying as peacekeepers? Or a logistics unit comprised of Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks deploying in support of allied or coalition units?

Welcome to the future, folks. This Bosnian unit is just the first in a new trend that you'll begin seeing in upcoming years.