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...over well when Bill Weld, his opponent, responded with TV ads showing sprightly old people dancing and playing bingo and then being told that, at the state's request, they should drop dead ASAP to ease the fiscal crisis. Even though the idea had distant poetic ancestry in Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori, Silber's campaign fizzled soon thereafter. Still, Silber's message, though transformed somewhat, has survived...
...Vance-Owen peace plan, currently the only plan in town, does nothing to turn back the aggression or prevent Serbia's military from pursuing its goals elsewhere. For months, Bosnian Muslims have known that the U.N. and Europe would offer them little real hope. They did believe, though, that eventually the U.S. would come around to their side...
During the presidential campaign, Bill Clinton said he was outraged at the events in Bosnia. But his latest Bosnian policy has shown utter cowardice. Rather than seeking a military solution, President Clinton has decided to join the current peace talks, considering the Vance-Owen plan that calls for partitioning Bosnia...
...believe that the Vance-Owen plan is in any way a just or practical alternative to military action is absurd. The plan treats Serbia as a legitimate party in a territorial dispute--not as a ruthless aggressor. No person who has seen the devastation, death and rape commited in the name of "ethnic cleansing" will accept a peace plan that rewards that aggression...
...other words, everyone back to the bargaining table. But what can more talk produce, especially now that the U.S. has forsworn the use of military force? After criticizing the Vance-Owen plan for shortchanging the Bosnian Muslims, Washington is not promising to increase their slices of the partitioned state. Instead, Christopher calls for a settlement "that the parties have voluntarily reached," which would be a minor miracle. Then, if that outcome could somehow be arranged, the U.S. and its armed forces would help enforce it and police the gerrymandered borders. U.S. officials claim that their willingness to defend a settlement...