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...will President Clinton bend his knee to the murderous thugs who lead Serbian aggression in Bosnia? How far can they push him without a response that preserves American honor? Those questions must be asked after Clinton's disastrous first move in Bosnia. Consider what the president did to defer to Serbian sensibilities--and what he got in return...
Instead of more vigorous action to stop Serbian aggression, as he promised during his presidential campaign, Clinton settled for a humanitarian airdrop to besieged civilians in eastern Bosnia. To avoid offending the aggressors, he said relief supplies would go to all parties--to the attacking Serbs as well as their victims. The Serbian aggressors replied to that deferential policy by using the airdrops as a cover for a major offensive against the Cerska enclave. They overran it, killing hundreds of civilians in what one United Nations official called a "massacre...
...callers who took responsibility for the bombing, at least one said he spoke for an organization calling itself the Serbian Liberation Front. Another claimed to represent Croatian militants. Still another called in the name of Bosnian Muslims. The possibility of a Balkan connection was made more tantalizing by the fact that a bomb was defused on Friday near the U.S. embassy in the Croatian capital of Zagreb...
Most of the Balkan nationalities have a history of marrying politics with violence. It was the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo by a Serbian youth that set off World War I. And according to a French expert on the Balkans, Xavier Raufer, the terrorist techniques that the Palestinians and the Lebanese made notorious in the past two decades -- bombings, kidnappings, hijackings -- were virtually invented by Balkan groups. "These guys make Abu Nidal look like Mother Teresa," he says...
...doing it and hoping the Croats would be blamed. The announcement this week that the U.S. would soon start sending relief flights over Bosnia made it just as plausible that the blast might be a response by Serbs to a perceived tilt against their side. Six months ago, Serbian nationalists threatened to bomb Western's Europe's nuclear facilities if its governments intervened militarily in the former Yugoslavia...