From: arnsenad@me.utoronto.ca (Senad Arnautovic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
Subject: Re: ISLAMIC WORLD NEWS (10th)
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:50:59 GMT
Organization: UofT Mechanical Engineering
Organisation: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

keserovi@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Goran Keserovic) writes:

>In article <1992Nov11.144312.13782@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> prs9k@brain.med.virginia.edu (Phil Scarr) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov10.231908.1@max.u.washington.edu> imnet2@max.u.washington.edu writes:
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>>>I                   * NEWS UPDATE                                        I
>>>I                   * ISLAM & SCHOOLS OF ECONOMICS                       I
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>>>
>>>BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA
>>>An entire people are being slaughtered before our eyes, yet the
>>>world watches with splendid indifference.
>>
>>I wouldn't exactly call it indifference.  Horror, perhaps, but not
>>indifference.  What should we do?  Should we leap into a centuries old
>>conflict, guns blazing?  Such a posture would cause far more harm than
>>good.  I don't have any solutions, but I know that intervention on the
>>part of the UN or the US is inappropriate.
>>
>>	-Phil

>   Firstly, this is not "a centuries old conflict" as the media would
>   like people to believe.....it is nothing more than barbaric
>   aggression by the Serbian regime. No different to that of Hitler
>   or Saddam, but in 1992 human blood is not as valuable as oil, so 
>   the world powers just don't give a damn. Don't forget that the Serbs
>   invaded Slovenia in June last year, and Serbia has NEVER had any 
>   bad blood with Slovenia. Following that, the Serbs invaded Croatia.
>   Now Bosnia. 

>   Secondly,
>   The solution is extremely simple in-fact.......Lift the arms embargo
>   on Bosnia and Croatia, tighten the embargo on Serbia, and provide US
>   Air Force air cover.....that is pretty simple. No US lives need to be
>   lost. The Bosnian government has said that it does not want US ground
>   soldiers to defend Bosnia.....there are plenty of Mulsims and Croats
>   willing to defend themselves - they just don't have the weapons.

>   If this was done, I think that the Serbs would start talking peace
>   very quickly. 

Completely agree.

>   Unfortunately, this is an impossible scenario since Serbia's allies
>   Greece and Russia are rather powerful when it comes to UN doings.
>   Where-as Croatia's allies such as Germany are ignored and Bosnia's 
>   allies, the Muslim countries are unfortunately comptely ignored by
>   the UN (unless the US's oil supply is in danger).

In addition, I think the U.S. is quitely supporting Serbia in this
conflict. On the surface, they are paying a lip-service to the victims
of Serbian aggression (submitting a war crime records to the U.N.,
but what the U.N. do with the records? Nothing). In the more essential
matters, the US is not willing to push to to the arms embargo lift,
nor provide air cover.
Strategically, viewing Europe as a future competitor, it is not
in the U.S. interests to help stabilize the Balkans - the backyard
of Europe. The crisis in the Balkans has clearily shown the big
cracks in European unity and the U.S. are playing to make sure
the crack gets widened.

>Regards,
>-Goran Keserovic

Senad H. Arnautovic
Newsgroups: soc.culture.arabic