[Milosevic] couldn’t have done it without the acquiescence of the United States and Western European states, which turned a blind eye to the wars in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia. Upon the first reports of mass killings in concentration camps in 1992, then-President George H.W. Bush said the conflict under way had “ancient and complex roots” and the United States had no role to play. It took 3 1/2 years and the massacre at Srebrenica before his successor, Bill Clinton, reluctantly led NATO into an intervention that halted the war.
March 14, 2006 6:42 AM
