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Flushed with this success, the Security Council then went ahead in May 1993 to designate five other safe areas: Zepa and Gorazde in the east, Tuzla and Bihac in the north, and the capital, Sarajevo. The policy was a bluff. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told the Security Council at the time he would need 34,000 soldiers to provide the enclaves with real security. The council balked and mandated only 7,600. In fact, not even that many were ever assigned to the safe areas. So the resolution approved a month later did not mention their "defense" but called...
...Soviet Union were constantly haunted by fear that nuclear war would start if one side called a bluff that turned out to be no bluff. That dread died with the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.--but neither the U.S. nor Japan is going to disappear as an economic superpower...
...bottled up with his detachment of peacekeepers at a U.N. base in Visoko that had been blockaded and mined by Bosnian-government troops. He could see smoke and explosions rising from a battle a couple of miles away but could only guess at their significance. "Is that a bluff?" he asked. "Do they want to get to Sarajevo? Is that the aim?" Then he answered, "Not for the moment...
...mission: "Offhand, with hindsight, I can think of many factors bubbling about in my brain, but I ought to admit right away that its origin was totally haphazard, touch and go, a flip of a coin. It all got out of hand with a companion calling my bluff (I said I could do it, this companion said I could...
What a mess in Washington too. From the outset, Bill Clinton's Bosnia policy has been equal parts wishful thinking, domestic politics and bluff; now it has virtually disintegrated under the pressure of the Bosnian Serbs and quarreling presidential advisers. The Serb triumph at Bihac has brought home the extent of Washington's failure and opened a bitter debate about what to do next. "Our policy is in complete disarray," admits a senior official. The debacle on the battlefield left the White House, senior Administration officials and a leading legislator separately enunciating contradictory positions...