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...what happened ((in the Balkans)) at the beginning of the century, when major powers came into conflict. If the U.S. Congress insists on a unilateral lifting of the arms embargo against the Muslims, how can I convince Zuygyanov and Zhirinovsky and the State Duma to keep economic sanctions against Serbia? This could produce a situation where the U.S. may be drawn into supporting one side and Russia into supporting the other. We have to give serious thought to this doomsday scenario...
...said it would lean on both sides to accept that settlement. If the Bosnian Serbs go along but the Bosnian government refuses, Washington might favor easing the economic sanctions now in place against Serbia. "There's nothing new about that at all," Christopher insisted...
...Castro has survived for 35 years. Panama's Noriega held on until the 82nd Airborne removed him. Haiti's military thugs promised their resignations when George Bush imposed sanctions in 1991, but they reneged after concluding that ! Clinton lacked the guts to take them out. The same goes for Serbia...
...President's feckless Bosnia policy represents a sin of omission -- an unwillingness or inability to rally the world against Serbia's aggression -- then, argued Robinson, Clinton's Haiti stance reflected an even more reprehensible sin of commission. "To interdict people and then turn them back to be killed without granting them ((asylum hearings))," he said, "makes the President complicit in the killing of those people...
...really serious about stopping the atrocities, there is now only one option. The Serbs must be taught a lesson. NATO must either protect Gorazde through heavy air attacks, or if that is no longer possible, punish Serb forces by attacking command center, weapons depots, artillery and supply links between Serbia and Bosnia...