Word: embargoed
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...next big Clinton initiative was to lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims. The administration's stated hope was that arms for Bosnians would create a balance of power in the region, and lead to a peaceful settlement...
...course, the administration was hoping against hope. The more likely result of the embargo's end would be the creation of (in the words of Douglas Hurd) a "level killing field" instead of an uneven...
However, the lifting of the embargo appears to have been superseded by a new initiative: the "serious consideration" Clinton has said he is giving to U.S. and allied air strikes against Serbian positions in Bosnia.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...
...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 put it, "We couldn't find a single Bosnian who, given a choice between U.N. forces remaining and lifting the arms embargo, preferred...
...would show itself to be made of still sterner stuff. In Britain, one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, public sympathy was running in favor of more determined action, led by an impassioned plea from Lady Margaret Thatcher to exempt Bosnian Muslims from the arms embargo and allow them to acquire the means to defend themselves. "There is nothing moral or right about leaving a people defenseless," she fumed. "We cannot just let things go on like this. It is evil...