Word: embargoing
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Last week the Western front was roiling just about everywhere. As Christopher was peddling a revamped approach before NATO, Bob Dole was winding up visits to London and Brussels during which he called for an end to the arms embargo against the Bosnians. The man who will soon become the Republican majority leader in the U.S. Senate was given short shrift in Britain, where Defense Secretary Malcolm Rifkind termed American criticisms of British policy "disgraceful" and demanded that Washington remain silent if it would not send troops to Bosnia...
Dole, displaying what he surely hoped would be regarded as presidential stuff, said he was unconvinced that reprisals against the Serbs could not work. "I want to express my strong support for a strong NATO," he stressed in Brussels. Yet he still planned to introduce an embargo-lifting resolution in the Senate, perhaps tacked to a veto-proof spending bill, sometime after the new Congress convenes in January. He predicted at least 70 to 80 votes in favor...
...classified wire sent to Bonn by the German ambassador to NATO, Hermann von Richthofen, a grandnephew of the World War I flying ace known as the Red Baron. His complaints centered on what he styled an arbitrary U.S. push to expand NATO eastward rapidly and to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, which he said would strain the alliance "to the limits...
What could the U.S. do had it the will? Many things. First and foremost, it could escalate its aggressive push for the lifting of the arms embargo. If such an effort failed, the U.S. would be morally justified in skirting the embargo and supplying the Bosnians unilaterally. The embargo is, after all, a violation of Bosnia's right to self-defense, a right guaranteed in the U.N. Charter. Air strikes against Serb supply lines and heavy weapons would further increase pressure for a more just settlement. And all else failing, ground troops should be a possibility--the stakes are that...
...such, the U.S. should immediately end the arms embargo against the Bosnian (and Croatian) forces--unilaterally if necessary--and step up NATO airstrikes to protect U.N.-designated safe havens. But the U.S. must not commit its own forces to this conflict. We should help the Bosnians in their civil war, but we cannot fight their war for them...