remember those names come election time in article christopheru ak pe clarinet com clarinews clarinet com sid balman jr writes washington upi secretary of state warren christopher said tuesday there are better ideas to stop the human slaughter in the balkans than ordering american fighters to bomb the serbs but a frustrated senator told him to do just that we ve not done a damn thing sen joseph biden d del told christopher at a hearing of the senate foreign relations committee preventive diplomacy is not in your capability right now in bosnia herzegovina biden chastised the administration and its republican predecessor for what he characterized as a limp response to the serbian policy of ethnic cleansing of muslims including rape and shelling of civilians the time has come for us and the world to stop bemoaning the fact that all the options are bad ones biden said they are all bad ones and we ought to pick a couple biden also endorsed lifting an international arms embargo against the former yugoslavia so the muslim dominated bosnian government might have a chance to at least defend itself against the serbs christopher said this could give an opening role in the conflict to the radical islamic government of iran o i c biden endorsed bombing serbian heavy weapons around the besieged eastern town of srebrenica there s not a military person who will not tell you that they could today if you gave them the order take out the heavy weaponry around srebrenica biden said if you did nothing else nothing else but that you would have saved hundreds of women and children who are being absolutely massacred right now military action is the only thing that s going to change the equation biden said despite the frustrations and pressure christopher had no enthusiasm for american combat aircraft to strike serb positions in bosnia herzegovina clearly we are at a turning point in the bosnia situation christopher said air strikes are among those steps that are so complex because they tend to interfere with the humanitarian endeavours i think there may be better options humanitarian as in feeding them and let them get raped and killed political conflict clinton vowed during the presidential campaign to then lift the arms embargo and to strike at serbian heavy weapons with u s combat aircraft christopher said airstrikes would likely increase the level of now fighting and cause our allies to draw back or even pull out the humanitarian effort great britain and france have balked at foreign military intervention in bosnia herzegovina for fear that their peacekeeping troops on the ground may suffer serbian retribution why don t they get the hell out of there they ared doing nothing to protect the victims anyway maybe becasue they have a different agenda sen nancy kassebaum r kan seemed to agree with christopher s assessment and stressed the need not to build up bosnian expectations for heavy u s military intervention it s very important that expectations aren t raised high on the part of the beleagured bosnians she said air strikes might have made a difference eight months ago she said but the strategic significance of that step now is questionable like christopher kassebaum said it might jeopardize the humanitarian relief effort now that they made sure the bosnian who were the only real subject of the embargo last year as everybody knows that the serbs had an unlimited supply of arms wre massacred without having a chance to defend themselves now this evil coldhearted snake is saying it is too late to save them so let them die
