I wonder if non-americans agree with UT's assessment.
I don't know, I wasn't paying attention at the time... so, being bored (sick kids), I looked it up on wiki. Clinton is only mentioned once on the wiki page for the
Bosnian War,
Quote:
The Bosnian government lobbied to have the embargo lifted but that was opposed by the United Kingdom, France and Russia. US proposals to pursue this policy were known as lift and strike. The US congress passed two resolutions calling for the embargo to be lifted but both were vetoed by President Bill Clinton for fear of creating a rift between the US and the aforementioned countries. Nonetheless, the United States used both "black" C-130 transports and back channels including Islamist groups to smuggle weapons to the Bosnian government forces via Croatia.[29]
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and not at all on the
Yugoslav Wars page, which sums up the end of the Bosnian war this way
So anyway, I'd like to hear more. Was the US peace brokering the important part, or the arms smuggling, or what? What really went on over there? Inquiring minds...