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...fact, as the French pointed out accurately, it was a counterattack. The Muslims began this round with a fierce surprise offensive in late October that won them 95 sq. mi. of Serb-controlled territory and quiet applause from the U.S. Now that the gambit has backfired and the Bosnian government is blaming everyone but itself, Dole is pushing for more NATO bombing, for lifting the arms embargo and for other forms of flailing unilateralism...
...Adriatic. Dole would compound the damage to the alliance -- and to embargoes that we care about, such as that against Iraq -- by actually breaking the embargo over British and French objections. And embargo busting is more than just damaging. It is by now ridiculous. The Bosnian government, for whose sake we would presumably be breaking ranks, itself gave up the demand 10 weeks ago. In late September the Clinton Administration, under congressional pressure, was quite prepared to go to the U.N. to get the arms embargo lifted. But the Bosnian government, knowing that outside peacekeepers were not about to stick...
...fighting in Bosnia raged on, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic snubbed the world's top diplomat, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, refusing to meet with the U.N. Secretary-General at the Sarajevo airport. Boutros-Ghali later said if the Bosnian Serbs and Muslims fail to cooperate with the U.N. protection force, the organization may find it necessary to evacuate its peacekeepers...
Amid a flurry of sometimes conflicting statements from sundry officials, the White House announced a major change in its Bosnia policy that brings the U.S. into line with its NATO allies. The Administration will abandon its strategy of threatening the use of military force in order to bring the Bosnian Serbs to the bargaining table. "Our only hope," said White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, "is that at some point the parties recognize there's no use continuing the kind of carnage that's going on there at the present time...
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...