Perhaps the world should have been better prepared because Yugoslavias history has been marked by recurring tension between Serbian efforts to dominate a centrally controlled state and other groups resistance to those efforts. But we were not prepared. We have not acted with dispatch. Nor have we acted with a great deal of compassion. The United States has acted as if we had little reason to do anything about this terrible situation. Yugoslavias tragedy is that warfare has caused tens of thousands of deaths and created over 2 million refugees. Our tragedy is that we have done so little to stop it. It is clear that the situation in what used to be Yugoslavia has spun completely out of control.
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