Hmm. Thanks for the post.
I doubt whether Bhutto actually had much real influence, because events were already snowballing and clinton was making his plans, but it’s interesting to know that she piled on and did her little bit to push the propaganda and help the Muslim terrorists take over Kosovo and much of Serbia.
Sorry. Just woke up from a nap. Much of Bosnia.
No, she didnt hade big influence, Clinton just used her as a pawn...
Something tells me that she died as one...
Agreed. After all the arms embargo was NOT lifted. More's the pity. I remember thinking as far back as the end of the elder Bush's admin that this embargo was a bad idea. If it had been lifted then it might have obviated the need for Bosnian Muslims to turn to foreign jihadists, or at least reduced the ability of jihadists to establish themselves in the Balkans, and it would certainly have earlier and more forcefully confronted the Serbs, and those trying to maintain or reimpose the Yugoslav hegemony, with the reality of their limited means.
Actually a bit hard to say on the later point. Milosevic and his allies were pretty stubbornly stupid. They refused to get the point no matter how many wars they lost. But there was a good chance anyway that, by giving locals the means to defend themselves, the conflicts would have sorted themselves out far more quickly, and that we (U.S., NATO, U.N.) would not therefore have needed to intervene.
On reflection it seems to me that arms embargoes are a bad idea, and counterproductive to their stated aim, more often than not.