For 4 years the people of Bosnia have suffered some of the worst atrocities in Europe: mass executions. mass rapes. brutal ethnic cleansing. sieges against innocent civilian populations. and terror campaigns. Atrocities we have not seen since the end of WW II. So far. the war there has left a quarter of a million dead. and nearly 3 million people from the region refugees. expelled from their homes and villages in brutal campaigns of ethnic cleansing. Three million refugees. Think of that. If such a war were fought here in the United States. by population share that would be equal to about 170 million American refugees. The people of Bosnia deserve immediate relief from the years of armed conflict. displacement. malnutrition and hunger. winters without heat or electricity. war crimes. and at times indifference by the rest of the world. The Dayton agreement offers a promise of such relief. I visited the Balkans 2 years ago. I met many people there. including many refugees who had been expelled from their homes. and who had lost loved ones and friends. I know the trials and horror they have experienced. Even in the face of these horrors. the Presidents decision to send United States troops to Bosnia is one of the most difficult foreign policy choices our country has confronted since the end of the cold war.
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