Word: serbians
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However, the lifting of the embargo appears to have been superseded by a new initiative: the "serious consideration" Clinton has said he is giving to U.S. and allied air strikes against Serbian positions in Bosnia. It appears that the U.S. will be at war in Europe for the first time in nearly a half century...
...visit to the former Yugoslavia, is preparing a memo for President Clinton that suggests one way the U.S. could justify the unilateral use of force against the Serbs. Biden plans to tell the President that because U.N. resolutions permit "all necessary means" to deliver humanitarian aid to Bosnia, the Serbian gunners who threaten aid convoys are fair targets for American bombs. Biden will also suggest that the U.S. should abandon the arms embargo against Bosnia, thus literally giving the Serbs' victims more of a fighting chance. As one member of Biden's staff who accompanied him on his trip...
...Serbian officials dared to excuse the attack as a response to Bosnian provocation. A more likely explanation was Serbian displeasure with enforcement of the U.N.-imposed no-fly zone over Bosnia. Coinciding almost precisely with the first NATO warplane patrols, the assault had been immediately preceded by a promise from Bosnia's top Serbian commander to stop shelling. The brazen breach of trust eventually moved President Clinton to declare "outrage." His words offered little solace to Srebrenica's defenders. By early Sunday Bosnian Muslim military leaders reached a cease- fire accord with Serbian forces that provided for the safe evacuation...
...been said that the choice Muslims face in eastern Bosnia is between < being transported like cattle and being slaughtered like sheep. Last week they got both. Shattering a two-week cease-fire, Serbian forces unleashed artillery attacks on refugees packed into the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica...
Most analysts recognize the danger of Serbian action in Kosovo or Macedonia triggering a wider regional war. If that does occur, U.S. interests will be threatened, and involvement will be a must. Today's "realism" is nothing but curmudgeonly short-sightedness...