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...these victories are not the end of the Balkan horror story--just the close of another bloody chapter, with the worst still to come. If settlements are soft on Serbia, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic could cause a European crisis that will dwarf the current one, and put millions more lives at risk...
...what a peace it is. Attacks by the Bosnian Serbs, funded and supplied by Serbia, will be rewarded--Serbian aggressors will win exclusively Serb provinces within Bosnia, which will soon become formal or informal extensions of the Serb state. Worse than the settlement itself though, is the message it will send to Milosevic...
Milosevic has a dream of a Greater Serbia that will encompass large swatches of Bosnia, Croatia and the disputed province of Kosovo. The Serb leader has carved out a section of Croatia already, and now is on the verge of solidifying his control over much of Bosnia...
...anything happening within a nation's borders is no business of foreign powers. The fighting in Bosnia and Croatia could be regarded as international, since these areas had declared independence; in Somalia there was no government left to tell anyone to stay out. Kosovo, however, has been part of Serbia for centuries; for all its current Albanian majority, Serbs regard it as the cradle of their nationhood. To Bush and others, that consideration is overridden by the danger that Serbian aggression in Kosovo could ignite a general war drawing in Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and even Turkey...
Well before any involvement in Kosovo, the U.S. could find itself embroiled in Bosnia. Bush is seeking U.N. approval for a resolution enforcing a no-fly zone that Serbia has been violating, and the Pentagon talks not just of shooting down Serbian planes and helicopters but also of bombing the bases from which they fly. Contingency plans are being drawn up to establish safe havens for refugees, presumably protected in part by U.S. forces...