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There is no obvious solution, no clear precedent for stopping genocide within a country's borders. However, the years of waiting in Bosnia and Rwanda provide a strong precedent of what doesn't work--and it's time to try something else. NATO must take care to avoid unnecessarily alienating other nations or splitting the alliance, and it must keep in mind that all wars are only methods of achieving peace...
...strong voice in favor of military action, and she came out in support of the air strikes right away. In a speech in Phoenix, Ariz., on Friday, she was able to remind her audience that as a former Red Cross chief, she has been to Rwanda, been to Bosnia, knows what ethnic cleansing is all about. "I would not back down, and I would take no options off the table," she told TIME on Friday. "We should continue the air campaign and expand the list of targets to include the Serbian government's infrastructure...
...think especially after Bosnia earlier in this decade we in the U.S. and in the rest of the world have become accustomed to seeing images like the ones were seeing from Kosovo right now. And in as sense we have become somewhat inured to those images so they no longer horrify us as they should," said Siddiqui, who is the treasurer of the Harvard Islamic Society and a Crimson editor...
...said a decision was made by American policymakers to withdraw from Bosnia by the fall of 1996 because of national interests, including the then-upcoming presidential election...
...Ordinarily in military involvements, you have a clarity of ends, and you keep your means obscure. In this particular case, the situation has been reversed," said General William Nash, former commander of the U.S. First Armored Division in Bosnia...