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During the 1992 presidential campaign, Holbrooke, a longtime member of the Democratic foreign policy establishment, had urged a stronger Bosnian policy. Clinton appointed him ambassador to Germany and then, when the Bosnian crisis deepened, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs. Holbrooke already enjoyed a reputation for being overbearing and peremptory--qualities that were to prove indispensable at Dayton--and he is forthright about being no shrinking violet, engagingly quoting unflattering references to himself. "If I were to operate in a routine manner," he writes, "I might make fewer enemies... " His narrative provides a compelling account...
There were many ironies. The Bosnian Muslims, generally regarded as the victims, were the most self-destructive and uncooperative members of the group, threatening up to the very last minute to torpedo the peace agreement. Slobodan Milosevic, the President of Serbia, widely perceived to be the original begetter of the tragedy, turned out to be the most constructive--and ostensibly amiable--of the protagonists. And the reluctance of the American military to become involved accounted for some major weaknesses in the final arrangement...
Meanwhile, the Kosovar rebels have grown just as dangerously belligerent and uncompromising. "The Serbs have been trampling all over us for years," said the young tough at the Smonica checkpoint. "Not any more. We are not Bosnian Muslims, and we will not allow ourselves to get butchered." That cockiness, combined with Serb intransigence and Western inaction, is a perfect recipe for a wider...
Reactions to news of Dershowitz's potentialdefense of Karadzic ranged from resignedacceptance to perplexity among experts in thefield of Bosnian war criminals...
Morton H. Halperin, vice president of the NewYork-based Twentieth Century Fund, a public policyorganization with a special Bosnian war crimestask force, said he is not surprised that Karadzichas contacted Dershowitz...