Political Quotes

“the question of the Senator from Virginia is a fair one. He asked earlier about what reaction the Bosnian Serbian army might take in response to the lifting of the arms embargo against the Bosnians. I would say there is not much worse. Certainly from the point of view of the Bosnian Moslems, 200,000 people killed in the last 2 years, 2 million refugees forced out of their homes, there is not much worse that could happen to these people than has happened to them while the rest of the world effectively stood by and let them suffer defenseless. So there are no guarantees of how anyone will act in a circumstance of this kind. But one thing we know is that our inaction up until this time has been a failure. It has failed to impede the progress of aggression. It has failed to stop the genocidal acts that are occurring. I must say, though some of the questions the Senator from Virginia is asking are obviously quite important and fair, I am disappointed that he would oppose the unilateral lifting of the arms embargo by the United States, because I had hoped that on that ground--I understand the dispute about the use of air power. Although I must say the reference to the gulf war is a good one, we have not really used allied air power here. We have tweaked their noses and not really brought the force that we have to bear in a way that would hurt the aggressors, the Bosnian Serbs and those who support them and supply them in Serbia.”