Word: croatia
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...flaw in the argument is that it makes ethnic hatreds a cause rather than a symptom. In reality, the war in Bosnia, just like the war in Croatia, is a calculated effort by the Serb government to capture as much land as possible as a means of creating a Greater Serbia. The overwhelmingly Serbian Yugoslav Federal Army has lent soldiers, weapons, training and support to the so-called Bosnian Serbs...
...Clinton team takes a painfully constricted position to the table. Without a threat of Western force, Serbia and Croatia will not accept a fair settlement. Yet the military options Clinton now flashes seem an unlikely check on further Serbian defiance. Christopher's pledge to remain "in the back-ground" while the parties reach their own agreement invites the aggressors to hold on to their claims...
...European negotiators, Cyrus Vance and David Owen, made room for American input in their design. Yet, that design, endorsing much of Serbia's and Croatia's ethnic cleansing, remains--and remains defective. Unfortunately the Clinton administration has not put a lot of thought into what changes it would like...
...West fails to bring peace to Bosnia, Serbian power will roll over the Muslims, parts of Croatia and the last hope of Albanian freedom in Kosovo. That's just the moral side of the problem.. The practical side is even scarier. If Bosnian turmoil continues, angry Muslim countries might send arms and probably soldiers to their fellow Muslims, where-upon resentful Russians will doubtless do the same for their fellow Slavs, the Serbs...
...Croatia has achieved a shaky independence since then, albeit one marred by episodes of urban shelling by Serb guerrillas. The Croats could conceivably have been motivated to carry out the attack hoping the Serbs would be blamed. But the Serbs have their own reason for staging the bombing -- or for doing it and hoping the Croats would be blamed. The announcement this week that the U.S. would soon start sending relief flights over Bosnia made it just as plausible that the blast might be a response by Serbs to a perceived tilt against their side. Six months ago, Serbian nationalists...