I am talking about the human cost of a wider Balkan conflict. For fifty years. we have spent the blood and treasure of Americans and Europeans to help provide for a stable. peaceful Europe. I believe we must again work with the Europeansand now with the Russians and others who have historic ties to the Serbsto try to resolve this crisis before the flames of war in Kosovo and of the refugee exodus which it has prompted consume the region. Steppedup diplomacy. a possible pause in the airstrikes. and other similar efforts to bring a peaceful and just end to this crisis should be pursued right now. Mr.