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      Christiane Amanpour: Srebrenica Genocide is a Collective Failure

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      Now Amanpour She reminds viewers that the slaughter in Bosnia happened in full view of the world, captured on 24-hour television news. Ms. Amanpour describes the efforts of Richard Holbrooke, a private citizen who would later become one of President Bill Clinton's most influential advisors; Mr. Holbrooke tried to persuade the Clinton administration to use military force to stop the principal aggressors, the Bosnian Serbs. It would take three years - and the Srebrenica genocide - a massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica - for him to make his case and secure U.S. military support to end the "ethnic cleansing."

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    • The Guns Of August

      Posted by Jon from Washington Post

      Interesting op-ed from Richard Holbrooke "There are vast differences between that August and this one. But Tuchman ended her book with a sentence that resonates in this summer of crisis: "The nations were caught in a trap, a trap made during the first thirty days out of battles that failed to be decisive, a trap from which there was, and has been, no exit." Preventing just such a trap must be the highest priority of American policy. Unfortunately, there is little public sign that the president and his top advisers recognize how close we are to a chain reaction, or that they have any larger strategy beyond tactical actions."

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    Christiane Amanpour: Srebrenica Genocide is a Collective Failure

    Speaking to the Armenian Reporter, Ms. Amanpour said, "When I ask former U.S. officials who were in national security or the State Department during the Clinton administration – in which genocide happened in Bosnia and in Rwanda – I ask them why was there this collective failure to act, and some of them said to me, ‘Look, we need our public behind us. This is something very difficult for us to intervene when our national security is not directly threatened. We need our public behind us.’"

    She said her purpose was to raise awareness of international affairs among Americans, the citizens of the most powerful nation on earth.

    During an international news conference in 1994, Ms. Amanpour challenged Mr. Clinton: "Do you not think that the constant flip-flops of your administration on the issue of Bosnia set a very dangerous precedent?"

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