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...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...
First results were inconclusive. The Serbs broke yet another cease-fire and continued shelling Gorazde. But the barrage lightened enough to cause NATO to hold off on air strikes in hopes it would stop entirely. U.N. observers reported seeing Serb troops pulling back from the town late Saturday...
...pull the trigger, don't point the gun." But it is by no means certain a corner has been turned. If air strikes do finally begin, they might not be even militarily, let alone politically, effective. Bombing runs may not be able to put out of action the Serbs' most effective weapons: easily moved mortars. And even if actual strikes or the threat of them stop the Serbs' Gorazde offensive, what is the next move? There are many places outside the six safe havens that Serb forces could then try to seize...
...trying to make that argument." But, the same official added, "we are trying to argue that this will enhance the safety of the safe areas." That superfine distinction seems aimed mainly at ensuring that new air strikes won't be judged a failure even if some Serb shelling persists...
Terrified Muslim residents of the eastern Bosnian city of Gorazde, declared a "safe area" by the United Nations last May, huddled under nearly continuous attack by Bosnian Serb forces for the third straight week. At week's end NATO allies issued a strongly worded new ultimatum to Serb gunners, giving them until 2:01 a.m. local time Sunday to withdraw their forces 1.9 miles from the town center and allow U.N. peacekeepers into the besieged city. The threatened big stick: allied bombing on a far greater scale than before...