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Dear Mr. President:

With close-ups of weeping Bosnian women and children and the desperately
exhausted expressions of old people, CNN's Christiane Amanpour commented
laconically, "This is the face of Serb victory in Bosnia."

Nevertheless, Europe and America continue to abdicate a leadership role in
Bosnia, holding endless conferences, promising air strikes which are never
executed, proclaiming that "Serb gains will not be rolled back" or
expressing "fear" that Croatia will fight to defend its own territory. On
both continents one politician or UN bureaucrat after another states that
some other politician or bureaucrat has the ultimate responsibility for
some action - usually one that has either failed or never been carried out.

In the face of all that astounding impotence, it is now the Moslem nations
that appear to be taking the lead in dealing with Serb acts of genocide
and aggression in the Balkans.

At the ASEAN conference currently taking place, the Indonesian foreign
minister - with the Russian foreign minister in the audience - calls on
the Security Council to take measures to end the genocide and aggression
in Bosnia and to grant Bosnia "its inherent right to individual and
collective self-defense by lifting the ill-conceived arms embargo."

At the that conference, reports CNN, "All seven of the ASEAN members
FOLLOWED THE US SENATE'S LEAD on Bosnia, demanding an end to the
international arms embargo."

Mr. President, when you said last week that America must allow other
nations to take a leadership role in areas that fall in their spheres of
influence, I doubt you intended that Moslem and Asian nations should
discover that they had such a sphere practically in the heart of Europe.

If they do make such a discovery, I'm not sure either the Europeans or the
Americans will in the future be entirely happy with the result.

Still, anything that will stop Serb aggression in Bosnia and bring a just
resolution of the conflict, is better than what now exists in that
desolate country.

But, said Nato's Secretary General last week, practically wringing his
hands, "There is nothing to prevent all-out war breaking out in Bosnia."

But there is in fact something: show the Serbs that they can no longer get
away with what they have been doing for the past four years to Bosnian
women and children and old people - not to mention the Bosnian soldiers
who have died or been maimed.

One way of showing the Serbs they can no longer act with impunity would be
to regard Bihac as protected in same way Gorazde is, and for Nato to carry
out air strikes there against the Serbs.

John Major, of course, explains patronizingly after meeting with President
Chirac that the situation around Bihac is so "complex" with "five
different groups" fighting one another, implying that Nato air strikes
would not be practical or effective and once more - in the best British
fashion - indicating that the Serbs should be appeased.

The Bihac situation "complex"?

There are two sides: one allied with the Serbs, the other allied with the
Bosnian Moslems.

Haris Silajdzic, the Bosnian Prime Minister - with something more at stake
in Bosnia than John Major has - pleads on global television that "Bihac
must be treated like Gorazde and air strikes must take place."

Mr. President, air strikes must take place.

The face of Serb victory has to be changed.

Sincerely yours,

Robert J. Bennett

Munich



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I am at the Frederick Weisman Art Museum In Minneapolis Minnesota viewing the

Exhibition "Faces of Sorrow: Agony in Former Yugoslavia." I was in a refugee

camp in Posusje, Herzegovina (near Mostar) two years ago working with Bosnian

Croat women and children. The exhibit has taken me right back there today.

I am able to feel much of what I wouldn't allow myself to feel during my
time in

Bosnia. I plan to return for that is all I can do to deal with the evil
side of

our human existence. We are all in need of a bit more humanity. The human

condition can be frightening at times...