Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brave Internationalist, if in fact he ever existed, has yielded to Clinton the Meek. Instead of taking a decisive turn toward creating a more just and fair international system, the Clinton administration has retreated into a corner, scarred by its rough treatment at the hands of Somali warlords, Serb soldiers and Haitian dockside gangs...
Some, no doubt, will be relieved to see a new hesitance on the part of the U.S. The credibility and competence of the world body has been found lacking in several ongoing operations. Serb forces have made a mockery of the U.N. in Bosnia, and General Aidid essentially forced the collapse of the U.N. mission in Somalia. For many, U.S. disattachment from the walking calamity that seems to be the U.N. can be nothing but good...
Foreign ministers from Europe, Russia and the U.S. agreed to urge the Serbs and Muslims to begin peace talks within two weeks. A proposed settlement would give the Serb aggressors 49% of Bosnian territory, with the remaining 51% going to the new federation of Bosnian Muslims and Croats. Meanwhile the U.S. Senate passed a measure requiring President Clinton to lift an embargo on arms sales to the Bosnians despite the objections of American allies...
...aside from the conflict but afraid to do anything about it directly, has chosen indirect involvement through NATO and the U.N. The result? Rather than harness awesome American air power (on display only three years ago in the Gulf War) to a coherent campaign to do something significant about Serb advances, the U.S. allows its air force to become the instrument of absurd power struggles among U.N. officials in Bosnia...
...Serb forces acceded to the NATO-U.N. ultimatum and pulled virtually all their troops and heavy weapons away from Gorazde. But observers fear they may be moving them northward to Brcko (pronounced Birch-ko), a town on the Croatian- Bosnian border partly held by the Serbs that the U.N. is now considering naming a seventh "safe area." At U.N. headquarters in New York City, the Security Council approved 6,550 additional peacekeepers for Bosnia, after the U.S. withdrew its earlier objections to the cost...