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Bill Clinton: “Well, that was never the purpose of NATO. The purpose of NATO was to guarantee the peace and security of the countries…”

On the recordJanuary 9, 1994
Well, that was never the purpose of NATO. The purpose of NATO was to guarantee the peace and security of the countries that were member nations. And when the United States asked NATO to approve some actions in and around Bosnia, it was the first time we'd ever done anything out of the area of the NATO members themselves. So we're working on this. It's not been established yet that anyone is capable of solving a civil war in another country. That's not been established yet.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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