Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think Milosevic has spoken a word of truth in the last seven years, so one would have to be a complete idiot to believe anything Milosevic says without clear support from his actions," said Emir Kamenica '01, who is from Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina...
...think the Serbs are the aggressors. They attacked first Slovenia, then Croatia, then Bosnia, then Kosovo...If you look at what happened in Croatia, I can not help but conclude that there's a massive genocide going on in Kosovo," he said...
...have it, finally, a concise summation of the Clinton foreign policy of the '90s: the Clinton Doctrine. From the President's "nation building" escalation in Somalia to the invasion of Haiti, to the diplomatic capital spent on the Irish and Middle East peace processes, to the occupation of Bosnia and now fatefully to the bombing of Serbia in defense of Kosovo, we have the core of how the Clinton Administration sees the world and what the U.S. should be doing...
...denunciation. No sanctions. No bombing. No indignant speeches about ethnic cleansing and the slaughter of innocents. In fact, in justifying the current bombing of Serbia, Clinton made an indirect reference to this Croatian campaign when he credited the "courageous people in Bosnia and in Croatia" who "fought back" against the Serbs and "helped to end the war." Indeed, they did. Croatia's savage ethnic cleansing so demoralized the Serbs that they soon agreed to sign the Dayton peace accord...
Hard-liners called that speech the worst name they could think of--"sentimental"--and made noise about how real men know that foreign policy has always been a choice of lesser evils. But that's exactly what Clinton was saying last week. He knows from his experience in Bosnia in 1994 and 1995 that Milosevic understands only force. The dirty little secret is that it's taken Clinton several years to realize that. It's impossible to know if last year's Balkan bloodshed might have been diminished had Clinton acted faster. But when Milosevic massed troops on the Kosovo...