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...strange wire indeed. The German government, or at least the Defense Ministry, has been an agitator on behalf of faster NATO enlargement. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's own Christian Democratic Union, meeting in a party congress last week, passed a resolution recognizing that the Bosnia embargo may have to be lifted. Kohl personally endorsed the measure, saying failure to protect Muslim sanctuaries was a "disgrace." Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel said Germany "stands morally close to the American position." In practical terms, however, it stands apart...
...fierce surprise offensive in late October that won them 95 sq. mi. of Serb-controlled territory and quiet applause from the U.S. Now that the gambit has backfired and the Bosnian government is blaming everyone but itself, Dole is pushing for more NATO bombing, for lifting the arms embargo and for other forms of flailing unilateralism...
These measures, as even Dole admits, hold out little hope of turning the tide of battle in Bihac or elsewhere in Bosnia. But they are guaranteed to do great damage to the foremost U.S. foreign policy asset in the world: NATO. Lifting the arms embargo and mounting air strikes against the Serbs would endanger the thousands of British, French and other peacekeeping troops on the ground in Bosnia. Conveniently, the U.S. has none there, which invites Dole's cowboy notions. The French and British are justifiably apoplectic at a U.S. that is unwilling to risk a single soldier...
...enough that the Clinton Administration unilaterally stopped enforcing the embargo last month, leaving the NATO allies holding the bag in the Adriatic. Dole would compound the damage to the alliance -- and to embargoes that we care about, such as that against Iraq -- by actually breaking the embargo over British and French objections. And embargo busting is more than just damaging. It is by now ridiculous. The Bosnian government, for whose sake we would presumably be breaking ranks, itself gave up the demand 10 weeks ago. In late September the Clinton Administration, under congressional pressure, was quite prepared...
...paper advocating an "illusion-free Bosnia policy" that would "stop advancing proposals we know the allies will . . . reject." Among its directives: tell the Bosnian government "that they will have to accept less" territory than the 51% awarded them by the Contact Group; drop any thought of lifting the arms embargo; and accept a confederation of the Bosnian and Croatian Serbs and Belgrade. The Defense Secretary publicly floated the confederation idea the next morning, as newspapers trumpeted a major reversal in U.S. policy...