re europe vs muslim bosnians in article c x y xd cbfsb cb att com sadek cbnewsg cb att com mohamed s sadek writes i like what mr joseph biden had to say yesterday in the senate condemening the european lack of action and lack of support to us plans and calling that moral rape he went on to say that the reason for that is out right religious bigotry parts of sen biden s statement were quoted by the washington post today let me put it plainly mr secretary you are required to speak diplomatically i am not i cannot even begin to express to you my contempt for a european policy that is now asking us to participate in what amounts to a codification of the serbian victory what you have encountered is a discouraging mosaic of indifference timidity self delusion and hypocrisy after they held our coats on kuwait and somalia they are asking us to put in a few thousand troops on the ground in order to have the right to speak and in order to implement their new idea of safe havens for the bosnians let s not mince words european policy is based on cultural and religious indifference if not bigotry and i think it s fair to say that this would be an entirely different situation if the muslims were doing what the serbs have done if this was muslim aggression instead of serbian aggression too bad the washington post did not include his next sentence which pointed out that a consequence of such policy is a rising anger within the islamic world the consequences of which we cannot begin to predict later biden told a reporter why he spoke out i think someone has to respond to europe to make it clear this is a big deal so they will understand and it is a big deal by refusing the fundamental human right of self defense to bosnia herzegovina europe and the world have aided the serbian aggression moreover the arms embargo has forced a situation in which bosnian serbs have times more heavy weaponry than bosnian croats and muslims combined under such conditions it is very easy for serbs to play a divide and conquer game and to get the muslims and croats who have strong common interests and who were allied against the serbian aggression to start fighting each other which leads to their mutual catastrophe one final quote u s secretary of state warren christopher has said in rome last week that in practice the embargo had the opposite effect intended it made aggression certain all diplomats who deluded themselves that they could negotiate peace while enforcing a imbalance of power on the ground have contributed to this tragedy sincerely josip
