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Bosnia
Bosnia
(January 1993) Development of an effective U.S. policy on Serbian aggression in Bosnia has been blocked by failure to forge a middle option between two extremes: the ineffectual current approach of diplomacy alone; and the deployment of U.S. ground forces in Bosnia. JINSA assembled a group of military and political analysts to find areas between the extremes that can be translated into effective policy.
Among the options are:
Continuing to seek political change in Serbia. Maximum tightening of the blockade of Serbia. Lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia. Enforcing the U.N. no-fly zone over Bosnia. Laying groundwork for the prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Preparing military options for attacks on Serbian military forces and targets in Bosnia, and the supply lines from Serbia.
These focus on relatively near term interests of an essentially political nature. We believe these coincide with powerful moral considerations that impel opposition to Serbia's mass murder of Bosnia's Muslims. The long term effect of our not opposing Serbia's policy of "ethnic cleansing" now will be to foster the belief that engagement in international aggression and egregious cruelty carries little penalty. There are no shortages of future Bosnia's waiting to happen.
We join the strong stand along these very same lines taken recently by an unusually broad spectrum of Jewish organizations, leaders and people.
Professor Eugene Rostow, of JINSA's Board of Advisors, adds this warning: "The history of the last seventy five years should have taught us that the major powers, which necessarily bear the major responsibility for keeping the peace, ignore that responsibility at their peril."
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