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- From: bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian F. Redman)
- Subject: Next Target: Bosnia
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- Summary: Newsweek reports U.S. war plans for Bosnia
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:15:29 GMT
- Keywords: treachery trickery deceit deception Bosnia war bosnia
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- Next Target: Bosnia
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- The December 28th issue of *Newsweek* magazine (the one with
- Hillary Clinton on the cover) is reporting that President Bush
- has decided to "take a last foreign-policy stand -- trying to
- stop the blood-bath in Bosnia." ("Next Target: Bosnia", pages 36-
- 37). "As U.S. forces landed in Somalia and showed they could deal
- with that calamity, pressure grew to do something -- really *do*
- something -- to help Bosnia."
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- The article trots out the tired old "nazi war crimes" comparison
- to justify the huge risk to American lives (not to mention the
- huge cost in dollars that the U.S. supposedly doesn't have.) Once
- more, the U.S. is portrayed as motivated *only* by humanitarian
- reasons.
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- "The Pentagon has a plan, and it's jokingly referred to as
- FUCOP... It represents months of brainstorming [by military
- leaders]."
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- *Newsweek* reports that "whatever Bush settles on will become
- Clinton's enduring problem." [B.R. I would add that it will
- become *our* enduring problem as well.]
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- The article notes that the U.S. government is pushing hard for
- the U.N. to fall in line with its war plans. The sought-for U.N.
- resolution on the matter calls for halting the destruction in
- Bosnia by "applying massive force against Serbia."
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- The U.S. hunger for involvement in the region has met with some
- opposition from Cyrus Vance, former U.S. secretary of state, who
- "requested a special meeting with Bush to plead against any
- intervention."
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- "Can air power alone do the job? Air Force Gen. John Loh, head of
- Air Combat Command, recently said it would be 'very difficult to
- force a fundamental change in the action in Bosnia solely through
- the use of air power.' Instead, he says, 'I think there's a role
- for a joint operation' -- meaning troops on the ground as well."
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- Synopsis/Review by Brian Redman
- "Ah yes, Armageddon. I remember it well."
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