Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idle threats has come to rival the death toll. But I really mean it this time, Clinton insists: If the Serbs don't cease their strangulation of Sarajevo, fire will rain from the air next week -- more than five months after the very same pledge was first uttered by NATO last August...
...striking decisively and massively in Bosnia, the U.S. and its NATO allies are missing a tremendous opportunity to save lives. Minor involvement like that suggested by the staff will only fuel the fire of guerilla violence. Militias of Bosnian Serbs will not feel threatened by a few scattered troops with superior weapons and training...
Soon after the pictures of the carnage hit television screens, NATO leaders gave the Serbs an ultimatum: remove the artillery that rings Sarajewo or have it removed by NATO warplanes. Already the threat has borne some fruit: Serbs have turned over some heavy weapons to U.N. troops...
...have seen this pattern before. Whenever NATO or the U.N. has made noise about action against the Serbs, they have made some small concession--and then gone on with the killing. Western leaders have fallen for this ruse over and again...
...other alternative is for the West to enforce a settlement, requiring the deployment of thousands of troops. While NATO troops are far superior to any of those fighting in Bosnia, such a deployment would inevitably lead to losses. If the U.S. experience in Somalia is any indication, the Clinton administration might not have the stomach for these losses...