Dan Minette wrote:
>
> Further, we have the unfortunate example of the Balkins. The US behaved as
> just one of many members of the international community, unwilling to force
> its will on the world, or even its allies. Lets look at what the Dutch
> review of the tragedy in Kosova has to say about this:
>
> From
>
> http://194.134.65.21/srebrenica/
>
> we have
>
> Christopher's trip was typified by inexperience on the part of Clinton, who
> did not fully understand the extent to which the rest of the world waited
> for America to take the initiative.....Indeed, it had already been decided
> beforehand that Christopher would not be permitted to present America's
> preferred policy of lift and strike as a fait accompli in the European
> capitals.[13] It would probably have been possible for him to persuade the
> Western European leaders with a single utterance of power, but this would
> have made Bosnia America's problem and the Clinton administration
> definitely did not want this.....The American Government was prepared to
> make a contribution to a multilateral approach at most. As his briefs for
> discussion in London indicated, Christopher had come 'in a listening mode'.
> [15] This gave both the Europeans and the Americans the impression that the
> Washington administration sought support for a policy they did not wish to
> fight for.[16]
>
> Together with the fact that the European leaders still needed to get used
> to Christopher's soft-spoken attitude, the American approach merely sewed
> the seeds of confusion in the capitals of Europe, which were used to
> America dictating the way."
Which section of the report was that in?
There are 563. (Assuming I added correctly on the Table of Contents,
anyway.) I have read the first 2. I'm horrible at skimming. I think
it would probably be good for me to read the whole darn thing, but
that's going to take me a couple of months *at* *least*. :)
Julia
who believes that the "which section" could be answered if the site
didn't have @#$% frames
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