Word: nato
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These measures, as even Dole admits, hold out little hope of turning the tide of battle in Bihac or elsewhere in Bosnia. But they are guaranteed to do great damage to the foremost U.S. foreign policy asset in the world: NATO. Lifting the arms embargo and mounting air strikes against the Serbs would endanger the thousands of British, French and other peacekeeping troops on the ground in Bosnia. Conveniently, the U.S. has none there, which invites Dole's cowboy notions. The French and British are justifiably apoplectic at a U.S. that is unwilling to risk a single soldier...
...enough that the Clinton Administration unilaterally stopped enforcing the embargo last month, leaving the NATO allies holding the bag in the 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...
...exports of F-16s to Pakistan, but not before Islamabad may have secretly modified some to deliver its handful of nuclear weapons. A Senate committee recently noted it had received reports "that U.S. military equipment, including helicopters, has been used in attacks against civilians in southeastern Turkey." Turkey, a NATO ally, denies it has attacked its Kurdish minority with U.S. weapons."Most of the weapons we purchase from the U.S. are not suitable for those operations," says Namik Tan of Turkey's Washington embassy. "We use weapons from other countries, like Russia...
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...
...Group plan -- which would give 51% of Bosnia's territory to a federation of Bosnia's Croats and Muslims and 49% to the Bosnian Serbs -- the Pentagon was urging Clinton to cut his losses and compromise with the Serbs. Aides to Secretary of Defense William Perry warned him that NATO was being torn apart over Bosnia, and the Administration's demands for air strikes on Bihac had only deepened the rift. The Joint Chiefs of Staff advised that no military threats from NATO would bring the Serbs to a political settlement. According to a position paper classified secret, prepared...