Word: sarajevos
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...defined objective that is achievable at acceptable cost, and when you are sure you can build the support here at home. The gulf war is a good example of that. Especially when it can be done through multinational support. It's appropriate for us to support the airlift to Sarajevo. If we do get involved further there, it certainly ought to be through a U.N. aegis and not on our own, and we need to be very careful that we don't have a European Beirut...
There is a stark simplicity to life in Amira Puzic's war-scarred apartment building in the northern Sarajevo neighborhood of Ciglane. At dusk the 18 families there prepare for another night of shelling by bedding down on couches and mattresses crammed onto landings of the central concrete stairwell. By day, when the barrage eases, they forage for food. But hunger has become a secondary consideration in the face of the almost constant bombardment, now well into its fourth month, by Serb forces firing from the surrounding hillsides. All day, every day, the talk in the building hallways...
...intent of the Serbs' incessant artillery and sniper fire is to break the will of Sarajevo, but it has only swelled the residents' anger. They welcome the international effort to fly in food and medicine but are worried that the relief operation is treating the symptom of shortage, not the cause. What Sarajevans want above all else is to see the aggressor routed. "A necessary evil" is Bosnia-Herzegovinian Defense Minister Jerko Doko's blunt term for the United Nations' hard-won airlift. "I wish the airport hadn't been opened in this way, because it has actually slowed down...
...many mutter angrily, stolen -- are available at outrageous prices. Puzic bought toothpaste, soap and a bundle of broad coltsfoot leaves. "I've never eaten it before," she sighed with a dubious glance at the tough, shiny weeds normally used for treating asthma. "But what else is there?" In Sarajevo outright starvation is not a threat, though hospitals are reporting cases of scurvy...
Even a decisive relief of Sarajevo while Serbian aggression raged on elsewhere in Bosnia would be no great victory. In Washington there is talk of establishing protected islands of security throughout the country. The extreme option would be reconquest of Bosnian territory already taken over by the Serbs. Some British sources estimate that would require at least 300,000 troops and up to a year of intense battle. "In the gulf war, the allies' high-tech stuff worked well," says Michael Dewar, deputy director of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies. But in mountain guerrilla warfare, "smart weapons...