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...Clinton Administration's erratic Bosnia policy. "I thought about resigning last month when Secretary Christopher said the U.S. was doing all it could," he says. "But the real kicker came when I found out we were putting heavy pressure on the Muslims to come to an agreement in Geneva, and using the threat of withholding air strikes around Sarajevo as part of that pressure. It's wrong to pressure a legitimately elected government to agree to a dismemberment that has been forced by a brutal campaign of aggression that we could have stopped and can still stop...
That was the precise moment Bill Clinton chose to threaten to bomb the Serbian forces that were "strangling" Sarajevo. Encouraged, possibly believing that U.S. military intervention could still save him, Izetbegovic bolted from the talks in Geneva. When Clinton's renewed determination to mount air strikes hit the NATO council in Brussels, it set off a 12-hour meeting so acrimonious that some participants feared the alliance itself was in danger of breaking apart over what would be the first offensive military action in its 44-year history...
...territory. The Serb militia is pounding on the gates of Sarajevo, and they are about to fly open. If nothing is done to police the Serb triumph and Muslim defeat, a final, horrifying bloodbath could sweep over the Bosnian capital and other Muslim enclaves. That fear spurred negotiators in Geneva and the Clinton Administration in Washington last week to try -- again -- to do something...
...session in the huge U.N. palace in Geneva, once the home of the impotent League of Nations, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic effectively surrendered. He had fought long and hard for the principle that Bosnia should remain a single, multiethnic state. He had held out against U.N. demands that he sign on to a plan partitioning Bosnia into 10 ethnic provinces. Now, under heavy pressure from the U.N., and from U.S. special envoy Reginald Bartholomew, who promised him substantial financial aid for his new mini- state, he could resist no longer. He accepted a plan to cut his country apart along...
...Serb and Croat leaders could hardly stop smiling at the confirmation of their triumph. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a man the U.S. holds responsible for war crimes, emerged from the Geneva talks to declare portentously, "We should all be satisfied. No one else need die in Bosnia and Herzegovina." In fact, that kind of talk is premature, since most of the important details have yet to be settled. And as Lord Owen, the European Community's negotiator, noted, "There are all sorts of people out there who want to continue the war, on all three sides...