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...Bomb Serbia...
...most realistic alternative is to supply the Bosnian army militarily while aiding them with air strikes. These strikes should not be limited to artillery but should also target supply depots and bridges between Serbia and Bosnia--a main conduit for supplies to the Bosnian Serbs. If the aid and the air strikes are not enough, then it will be time to consider other options...
...nice thought. Unfortunately, it's been disproved in Yugoslavia, where the fall of communism has brought a vicious three-way war. Serbia and Croatia, both under democratically elected Presidents, intermittently fight each other while jointly dismembering democratic Bosnia. Serbia had a parliamentary election Dec. 19 in which all the parties supported Serbia's aggression -- although it has left the country a basket case. The Yugoslav mess is one reason some former hawks have become born-again doves. They have lost their interest in promoting democracy. They look at the postcommunist world and see that the most common cause...
...died several weeks ago, Prime Minister Jozsef Antall declared himself the leader of 15 million Hungarians, pointedly extending his domain beyond the 10 million in the country. Antall, who was considered a moderate, is not alone. Many Hungarians want to protect their expatriate brothers currently enduring discrimination in Serbia, Romania and Ukraine. "If our reaching out to the West doesn't produce results in three or four years with something like NATO membership -- or its clear prospect -- the nationalists will roar back," says Istvan Gyarmati, Hungary's Director of Security Policy. "They'll just say we moderates tried a policy...
...Khan's agenda -- war and atrocity -- is still pursued, although with less candor about the pleasure involved: some tribal or nationalist rationale ("Greater Serbia!") is proclaimed. Even after the cold war has ended as big-battle war seems to have become extinct -- the Gulf War perhaps a last set piece of tank warfare -- parvenu nations tinker in their basements with homemade nukes. Even more ominous is the global inundation of handy conventional weapons, a planetary democratization of firepower trickling down to Third World villages and the hip pockets of American schoolchildren...