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...already spoken to Norm Schwarzkopf earlier in the morning and told him I sensed we were nearing endgame. The prisoner catch was approaching 70,000. Saddam had ordered his forces to withdraw from Kuwait. The last major escape route was choked with fleeing soldiers and littered with the charred hulks of nearly 1,500 military and civilian vehicles. Reporters began referring to this road as the "Highway of Death...
Unfortunately, the agreement made no mention of a cease-fire, and as the Bosnian Serbs failed to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo, nato escalated its military campaign, doubling its target list and extending the scope of the air war across Bosnia. As poor weather frustrated bombing efforts and Serb resistance appeared to be holding firm, a nato official admitted, "It might take a longer campaign to inflict significant damage...This may be a question of lasting attrition, grinding them down rather than overwhelming them with a series of spectacular strikes in a couple of days...
There will be many, many obstacles, but let's imagine all parties agree to a peace plan. America would then have avoided its nightmare scenario--sending in 25,000 soldiers to help U.N. forces withdraw from Bosnia while the war is on. That's great, but there is a catch. The Clinton Administration has also pledged that if a peace accord is signed, the U.S. will send 25,000 troops to Bosnia to help enforce it. No doubt that is a safer mission than covering a U.N. retreat. Still, at his office in Naples, U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith...
...billboards and magazines-and air them on TV. If you're lucky, parents, the Catholic League and other religious groups will protest, especially over the video in which an offscreen male voice tells a girl standing alone that she's pretty and not to be nervous. Promise to withdraw the ads with an Orwellian statement about how your "positive message" was "misunderstood" and garner tons of free media exposure. Then watch your jeans, which most teens wouldn't have been caught dead in a few months ago, become black-market subversive overnight...
...fall of the U.N.'s ''safe areas" of Srebrenica and Zepa to the Serbs in July, Clinton faced a choice: either take military and diplomatic control away from the U.N. and the Europeans, or be forced to send thousands of American soldiers into harm's way to help withdraw U.N. troops. Clinton's priority in Bosnia has always been to avoid sending in soldiers while the war was going on, and he chose engagement...