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...minimize any chance of being hit by ground fire. And they were to be preceded by planes dropping leaflets telling ground forces what was about to be parachuted into their areas and when. Further, Clinton announced that the supplies would be dropped not just to Muslims cut off by Serbian siege and blockades from relief supplies but to everybody, "without regard to ethnic or religious affiliation." By week's end, with the drops set to begin, the operation had support from U.S. congressional leaders, allied officials such as Britain's John Major, and the U.N. Security Council. Even General Ratko...
...drop gimmick is clearly an attempt to deflate pressure for action, partially the result of his own campaign rhetoric, while allowing him to continue focusing on his economic plan. Recent statements by Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher make it clear that the administration sees no hope of reversing Serbian gains...
...presidents and their administrations have been hopelessly inactive in intervening to aid the Bosnians. It is incomprehensible that George Bush, the same leader who invaded Panama and fought the Gulf war, could not even order air strikes on Serbian military targets or militarily enforce the no-fly zone...
That, the Clinton Administration made clear last week, is pretty much what the U.S. intends to do. On the stump and during the presidential transition, Clinton said he would consider tougher action against Serbian aggression and criticized Vance-Owen for in effect rewarding the Serbs for their "ethnic cleansing." He said in recent weeks he wanted to give Bosnia's Muslims a better deal and make the Serbs give up more of the territory they have seized...
...Bosnia shows how that logic can be turned upside down. There, "elite" units of Serbian irregulars such as the White Eagles have evidently made rape a gesture of group solidarity. A man who refuses to join the others in rape is regarded as a traitor to the unit, and to his Serbian blood. Sometimes, that impulse to bond with the male group becomes a kind of perverse inflaming energy inciting to rape. Lust is only a subsidiary drive...