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From notes@igc.apc.org Tue Aug 8 16:22:56 1995 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (192.82.108.1) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (MailShare 1.0b10); Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:22:59 -0500 Received: (from notes) by cdp.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.203 ) id LAA26490 for "conf-zamir.chat"; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 11:49:02 -0700 Date: 08 Aug 1995 11:18:27 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"From: doctorb@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: Longer than World War One To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <199508081816.LAA22963@ix7.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 72 From: doctorb@ix.netcom.com (. ) You wrote: > >From: Robert John Bennett > >Dear President Clinton: > >"The war in the Balkans," said a journalist yesterday on German state >television, "has now gone on longer than World War One." The Germans and Americans gave the green light to assault the Republica Serpska Krajina after the former US DIA trained the Croats. Somebody in a newsgroup said there were 300,000 refugees in Germany. Now there's plenty of "liberstraum" for them in Krajina and Germany can start the deportations. .uh repatriations. >When Slovenia declared independence in June 1991, and Yugoslavia attacked >in retaliation, the rest of the world believed that outside armed >intervention would only make the situation worse. 1991 June: Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence. The Yugoslav Federal Army intervenes in Slovenia. July: European mediation in the conflict begins; a three-month moritoriun on Slovenian and Croat independence; retreat of the federal army from Slovenia. August: Massive attacks by the federal army and Serb paramilitary forces on Croatis. ---"Sarajevo, A War Journal' by Zlatko Dizdarevic p 200 'Chronology of Events' I bewlieve the Yugoslav Federal Army presence in the Croat-Serb war was six months long, during which time the Bosnian Parliament votes to seceede and a similar fate awaited them: Serbs unwilling to live under a [bare] ethnoreligious majority compunded by the internationalist blunder to recognize borders too quickly. > >The situation in the Balkans has gotten worse. This is simply not borne out by the casualty figures. Worse than what? You are agonizing over one of the six former republics of "Greater Serbia" [Yugoslavia] since June l991. The other five are not at war. Milosevic stayed out of the Krajina because he wants to keep his oil fields on the border with Croatia: The West probably cut that deal with him. Every other East European communist country left the Soviet orb peacefully, before it too dissolved itself without a shot being fired. This is pretty amazing. I attribute this not to Reagan or Bush but to Gorbachov: It is simply not worth it to blow the planet up over the disagreement over it's political economy. > >Yesterday, however, Boris Yeltsin made one of the most intelligent >statements that any world leader has made about the Balkans in the last >four years. He said that if his proposed negotiations in Moscow with >Tudjman and Milosevic lead to nothing, the war and conflict in the Balkans >should simply be stopped. "By force." > >That would mean putting together a coalition of the major European and >North American powers strong enough to achieve that aim. If Milosevic and Tudjman agree that any US-NATO police action be confined only to Bosnia stopping the conflict would be a piece of cake. >First stop the war, then begin negotiations. Trying it the other way >around hasn't worked. The endless rounds of negotiations slowed it down quite a bit. One way to beat an enemy is to starve them out. AS the UN mandate was to feed refugees and the "safe" areas in Bosnia became staging areas for Muslum war parties, no wonder the UN and Serbs fell out.