It represented American leadership at its best. And the Bush administration will get enormous blame for its pathetic failure in preventing this tragedy that has unfolded in Yugoslavia. following the great victory in the Persian Gulf war. Publicly. publicly and privately. many of us cautioned the administration that what was called for in 1991 was to use the deterrent capability of NATO which would have prevented the death of a quarter million innocent human beings. the creation of 11/2 million refugees. and material damage running into the tens of billions of dollars. The Clinton administration. after a wobbly start. got it right. We are now in the process of destroying what has been gained since Dayton.
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