U.S. Policy in Yugoslav War

Your editorial was disheartening but accurate. I agree that the U.S. could have done much more, much sooner. The question is, however, what should the U.S. and its allies plan to do now? To secure the Sarajevo airport by force, if in fact a cease-fire is not accomplished, is well and good for the starving people of that city, but what does it do for the people of Bosnia and Croatia who have been forced from their homes? Securing the airport leaves Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and his murderers to move on to new ground and yet another situation will occur in which we must secure new boundaries, etc. The only solution to this problem is simple--stop trying to negotiate with these madmen; take action similar to what we did in Iraq by blowing up his war machine, down to his last arms stockpile to stop him from continuing; drop the arms blockade against Croatia and Bosnia, which would allow them to take care of the groundwork themselves. Any action by the U.S. and its allies contrary to this leaves the world looking helpless against the aggression of Milosevic and his band of vicious thugs.

LINDA HURLEY

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