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...details standing in the way of a Yugoslav settlement. All these things came to pass, and Eagleburger was pleased by the strong international unity demonstrated. But absent the use of U.S. military force, which he fears could lead to another Vietnam quagmire, none of these steps will guarantee a formula for changing Serb behavior soon, and he knows it. "To a degree I think we're in the midst of a Greek tragedy," he says, "which had a beginning, and somewhere will have an end, and a lot of people are going to die in the meantime...
...approach the family-values question, it may be necessary to remember the formula of F. Scott Fitzgerald: he said the sign of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to retain two mutually contradictory ideas in the mind at the same time and still be able to function. The two mutually contradictory but simultaneously valid ideas involved here are these...
...they're not that stuck. We tried the other formula not so many years ago -- a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress -- and out we came with a misery index, unemployment and inflation, the highest it's been in modern times. That formula has been tried. The other one has not been tried, and I would like to see that...
...impossible. The deficit is so big you can't do it in one year. And anyone who says you can is setting up a formula for disaster and destruction. It just can't be done...
Perhaps "the threat or use of force," as the old formula goes, would not bring Bosnia's Serbs to heel. But proposing military targets for air strikes in the Serbian heartland might make Milosevic think twice, give his many Serbian political opponents a more persuasive voice and ease the heat on slowly strangling Bosnia. At the least, it would send a message about where the West stands. At bottom, this may not be a universal U.N. concern, but it is a European crisis and, more to the point, a Western responsibility. As such, it is also a job that will...