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...been burned by human relationships will pour cash in. I take out some ads, like "This Dog Will Be Put to Sleep This Weekend Unless You Send Me $500," and in four months that $12 mil is $24 mil, and I've got my nose 12 deep in Pomeranian rump...
DURING THE THREE YEARS BEFORE AMERICA'S policy toward Bosnia became inextricably linked with the name of Richard Holbrooke, the Clinton Administration seemed to be basing its actions on Bismarck's famous comment that the Balkans are not "worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier." In July 1995, however, the Bosnian Serbs seized Srebrenica, a U.N.-designated "safe haven," and set about massacring several thousand of its men and boys. This atrocity, only the latest of many, stirred Bill Clinton into belated action. The President recognized that dithering and long-distance hand wringing over Bosnia didn't work...
Have American conservatives lost their minds over Bosnia? It was Bismarck who said the Balkans were not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. Bob Dole and other conservative hawks have long made it clear that they do not consider the Balkans worth the bones of a single American ground soldier. Yet they seem quite prepared to sacrifice NATO on the altar of Bosnia. Destroy NATO for what? Certainly not to save Bosnia. That they admit is beyond doing. No: for the simple satisfaction of pretending to save Bosnia; for the warm, smug feeling that comes from lifting...
...More than a century ago, Otto von Bismarck gazed on another Balkan crisis -- the collapse of the empire of Ottoman Turkey -- and shrank from getting militarily involved. In the Iron Chancellor's view, Germany had no interests there that "would be worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian musketeer." Though Serbian nationalism went on to ignite the First World War, the E.C. last week seemed to feel much as Bismarck had. At an emergency session in the Hague, the Community's foreign ministers rejected the idea of committing a "buffer" military force. The rejection prompted three other countries -- Canada...
...Crimean War, which gave the world Florence Nightingale, the charge of the Light Brigade and the first modern war correspondents. Fearing the consequences of such entanglements for his own country, the German leader Otto von Bismarck declared that the Eastern Question was "not worth the bones of a Pomeranian grenadier...