Harry Johnston: “I appear here in somewhat of an ambivalent position because I feel the embargo should be lifted but I do not think it…”

“I appear here in somewhat of an ambivalent position because I feel the embargo should be lifted but I do not think it should be lifted unilaterally, and I have expressed my opinions in the past to the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. McCloskey], and my frustration of what is going on in this country. The Europeans told us 3 years ago that Yugoslavia was a European matter and that we should stay out of it. Then, when I went to the NATO conference 1/2 years ago, they said, ``Why aren't you invading?'' We cannot do this unless we are willing to assume the sole responsibility for the events in Bosnia, the United States. We cannot do this unless we are willing to abandon our European allies that are there. How can the President appear before the French Parliament and say, ``Please keep your forces there,'' and then the next day for us to unilaterally pull out from the embargo and go in there and jeopardize all these people's lives? We cannot do this unless we are willing to threaten the viability of international sanctions, as the chairman said, on Haiti, on Iraq, and in 2 weeks probably the President will go to the United Nations and say we should have an international embargo on North Korea, and they turn around and say, how can we unilaterally pull out of the sanctions on this country of Bosnia? You cannot do this unless you are willing to unilaterally remove yourself from leadership that brought us the gulf war victory.”