 This policy was criticised by Thatcher and others who saw the Bosnian Muslims as the main victims of Serb aggression and compared the situation to events in the Second World War.The Clinton administration, by contrast, was committed to a policy of "lift and strike" (lifting the arms embargo and inflicting airstrikes on the Serbs) causing tensions in the "special relationship" (Douglas Hurd and others strongly opposed this policy).Some commentators compared the Major Government's policy to "amoral equivalency" because it appeared to judge the Bosnian Government and the Bosnian Serbs equally culpable.