The United States has taken the lead in the UN in imposing sanctions on Libya for its failure to turn over for trial those indicted for the bombing of Pan Am 103. We have called upon Sudan to sever its ties to renegade organizations and to stop shielding suspected assassins. And we have banned U.S. trade and investment with Iran, the world's number one state sponsor of terrorist acts. There are some overseas who do not share our approach, who argue that the best way to influence governments that support terrorism is to do business with them, to place profit above principle. But we believe it is wrong to sign contracts with governments that sponsor terror.
Terrorism is evil.
And under President Clinton, whether terrorists are wearing robes or business suits, whether they call themselves warriors or diplomats, the United States will speak and act against terrorism in all its disguises, in all its forms. Finally, the United States has taken the lead in supporting the first international war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg, because we believe the perpetrators of ethnic cleansing should be held accountable and those who see rape as just another tactic of war must answer for their crimes. I have visited mass grave sites in both of the regions for which this tribunal was created. I have spoken to women whose husbands or sons disappeared after the massacre at Srebrenica and who cling to the fragile hope that their loved ones are still alive. I have seen in Rwanda a virtual generation of widows, many the mothers of babies conceived by rape.