Bill Clinton: “Well, first of all, there are--the circumstances under which the SFOR troops will apprehend war criminals have been…”

“Well, first of all, there are--the circumstances under which the SFOR troops will apprehend war criminals have been fairly well defined. We did not send SFOR there to mount major military campaigns. Secondly, I don't want to discuss the circumstances in detail under which we might or might not go after anyone. But let me go to the point underlying your question--I think it is--which is, can this peace be made to work unless Mr. Karadzic is arrested? I mean, let's just sort of get to the bottom line here. I think the answer to that is, under the right circumstances--that is, if he flees the country, if he is deep enough underground, if he can't have any impact on it--we might make the peace work anyway. After all, a great deal of progress has been made. I would point out that more progress has been made in the Bosnian-Croat--the Muslim-Croat Federation part of Bosnia economically than in the Serbian part, in part because reactionary elements there have resisted doing the right thing across the board in many areas.”